StoryTitle("caps", "The Windy Night") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(3, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the midnight tempests howl!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a dreary voice, like the dismal tune", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of wolves that bay at the desert moon;—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or whistle and shriek", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through limbs that creak,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"Tu-who! tu-whit!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They cry and flit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Tu-whit! tu-who!\" like the solemn owl!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweep the moaning winds amain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And wildly dash", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The elm and ash,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clattering on the window-sash,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a clatter and patter,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like hail and rain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That well nigh shatter", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dusky pane!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the tempests swell and roar!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though no foot is astir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though the cat and the cur", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lie dozing along the kitchen floor,", "") ?>
PagePoem(4, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There are feet of air ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On every stair—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through every hall, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through every gusty door, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's a jostle and bustle, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With a silken rustle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the meeting of guests at a festival!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Alow and aloof, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over the roof, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How the stormy tempests swell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And make the vane ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On the spire complain; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They heave at the steeple with might and main, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And burst and sweep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the belfry, on the bell!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They smite it so hard, and they smite it so well, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That the sexton tosses his arms in sleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dreams he is ringing a funeral knell!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Thomas Buchanan Read.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>