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Originally published
  
January 1990

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Author
  
Vikram Seth

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All You Who Sleep Tonight, ISBN 978-0394585161, is a 1990 collection of poems by Vikram Seth.

Contents

British composer Jonathan Dove set eight of the quatrains and five other poems to music for Nuala Willis in a 1996 song cycle of the same name.

The collection is grouped into five sections:

  • Romantic Residues, poems which reflect on feelings of love and their effects, or after-effects
  • In Other Voices, poems from the viewpoint of people in other times and places, such as a doctor in Hiroshima on the day of the atomic bomb
  • In Other Places, poems about places and people encountered in his travels
  • Quatrains, four-line poems on themes as diverse as insomnia and table manners
  • Meditations of the Heart, ranging from admiration of the Russian dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya to the title poem of the volume.

    • All You Who Sleep Tonight

    All you who sleep tonight
    Far from the ones you love,
    No hand to left or right
    And emptiness above -
    Know that you aren't alone
    The whole world shares your tears,
    Some for two nights or one,
    And some for all their years.

    All you who sleep tonight by vikram seth


    References

    All You Who Sleep Tonight Wikipedia
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