IV. Dear, though the night is gone (A Dream)
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IV. Dear, though the night is gone (A Dream) by W. H. Auden
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This poem is sometimes given the title “A Dream” (as in Auden’s 1958 selection of poems) or “The Dream.” It is the fourth of “Twelve songs.”
This song has an intricate rhyme-scheme working often by half-rhyme: the last stanza seems the closest:
A – guilt
B – doubt
C – of
D – unabashed
D – wished
C...
IV. Dear, though the night is gone (A Dream) Annotated
Dear, though the night is gone,
Its dream still haunts to-day,
That brought us to a room
Cavernous, lofty as
A railway terminus,
And crowded in that gloom
Were beds, and we in one
In a far corner lay.
Our whisper woke no clocks,
We kissed and I was glad
At everything you did,
Indifferent to those
Who sat with hostile eyes
In pairs on every bed,
Arms round each other's necks,
Inert and vaguely sad.
What hidden worm of guilt
Or what malignant doubt
Am I the victim of,
That you then, unabashed,
Did what I never wished,
Confessed another love;
And I, submissive, felt
Unwanted and went out.
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When did W-h-auden release IV. Dear, though the night is gone (A Dream)?
W-h-auden released IV. Dear, though the night is gone (A Dream) on Sun Mar 01 1936.