A Song in the Night + 

I Would I Were an Angel Strong + 

I would I were an angel strong, + 

An angel of the sun, hasting along! + 

I would I were just come awake, + 

A child outbursting from night’s dusky brake! + 

Or lark whose inward, upward fate + 

Mocks every wall that masks the heavenly gate! + 

Or hopeful cock whose clarion clear + 

Shrills ten times ere a film of dawn appear! + 

Or but a glowworm: even then + 

My light would come straight from the Light of Men! + 

I am a dead seed, dark and slow: + 

Father of larks and children, make me grow. + 