• The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone.

  Source: More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. midnight
2. plunges
3. stroke
4. ceases
5. alone

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The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. by : A. E. Housman

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