Comments & Greek artists, Greek painters: Acquainted with the night...

Poetry & Greek painters , Greek fine art


Yannis Stavrou, Thessaloniki in Colours, oil on canvas

Night covers the ugliness of modern cities...

Far from noise, cars and humans...

Beauty returns...

Acquainted with the night
Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.