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Read & copy the quotation
“Thus meet we five, in this still place, At this point of time, at this point in space.”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “Thus meet we five, in this still place,…”
The speaker's quiet encounter with small nocturnal creatures is fixed to one precise moment and place, making attention itself the poem's central event.
Where does it come from?
“An August Midnight,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The five include the speaker and small creatures gathered around his writing table.
