‘Stop All The Clocks’: A Poem by Radhika Soni

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Stop All The Clocks

after W.H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, stop all humdrum,
Silence the warblers, their constant hum;
Bid the sun to pause, just stand by
And the moon to remain in the starless sky.

He was my dusk, he was my dawn,
Stop all the clocks, now he is gone;
Quiet the hymns, the evensong,
I thought love would last, I was wrong.

Stop the earth, its constant spin,
Wring the brooks, subdue the din;
Draw the blackest drapes in the sky,
Tell every star to shut its eye.

Cover the hills in blackest shrouds,
Unleash the rain from the darkening clouds,
Scrape the rainbow, call truth a lie;
Prepare the coffin, let me die.

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Radhika Soni resides in India and graduated with Honours in English.