Question

to wolf something down
Do you know of any story in
Lirele one, come to my kneel
Hark how the rain is pouring
Over the roof in the pitch-dark night,
And the winds in the woods a-roaring​ tell me in hindi

Answer 1

A Night with a Wolf

by

Bayard Taylor

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Little one come to my knee!

  Hark how the rain is pouring

Over the roof in the pitch dark night,

  And the winds in the woods a-roaring.

 

Hush, my darling, and listen,

  Then pay for the story with kisses;

Father was lost in the pitch-black night

  In just such a storm as this is.

 

High on the lonely mountain

  Where the wild men watched and waited;

Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush,

 And I on my path belated.

The rain and the night together

  Came down, and the wind came after,

Bending the props of the pine tree roof

  And snapping many a rafter.

 

I crept along in the darkness,

  Stunned and bruised and blinded . . .  

Crept to a fir with thick-set boughs,

  And a sheltering rock behind it.

 

There, from the blowing and raining,

  Crouching I sought to hide me;

Something rustled, two green eyes shone,

  And a wolf lay down beside me.

 

Little one, be not frightened;

  I and the wolf together,

Side by side through the long, long night,

  Hid from the awful weather.

 

His wet fur pressed against me;

  Each of us warmed the other;

Each of us felt in the stormy dark

  That beast and man were brother.

And when the falling forest

  No longer crashed in warning,

Each of us went from our hiding place

  Forth in the wild wet morning.

Darling, kiss me in payment . . .  

  Hark! how the wind is roaring!

Father's house is a better place

  When the stormy rain is pouring.  

This poem is in the public domain.

 

 

Bayard Taylor (1825 -1878) was an American writer whose work included novels, poetry, newspaper and magazine articles, travel writing, translations, and short stories. Born in Pennsylvania to Quaker farmers, Bayard traveled extensively throughout his life, spending long periods of time in Europe, the Orient, and the Middle East; his books chronicling his travels were extremely popular, as were the lectures Bayard gave when he returned to America. While he is best known among critics for his translation of Goethe's Faust, Bayard?s poems and novels brought him much acclaim from the public during his lifetime. His home, Cedarcroft, is preserved as a national historical landmark.