1992


A Winter Night

Composed by Lori Laitman
Text by Sara Teasdale

The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs Song Collection


"A Winter Night" is the second song of Lori Laitman's song cycle The Metropolitan Tower and Other Songs.

Text

A Winter Night
by Sara Teasdale

My window-pane is starred with frost,
The world is bitter cold to-night,
The moon is cruel, and the wind
Is like a two-edged sword to smite.

God pity all the homeless ones,
The beggars pacing to and fro.
God pity all the poor to-night
Who walk the lamp-lit streets of snow.

My room is like a bit of June,
Warm and close-curtained fold on fold,
But somewhere, like a homeless child,
My heart is crying in the cold.

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