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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING, by ALCMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountain summits sleep: glens, cliffs, and caves
Last Line: Each bird is hushed that strech'd its pinions to the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: The mountain summits sleep: glens, cliffs, and caves
Last Line: Each bird is hushed that strech'd its pinions to the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
The mountain-summits sleeps, glens, cliffs and caves,
Are silent -- all the black earth's reptile brood --
The bees -- the wild beasts of the mountain wood;
In depths beneath the dark red ocean's waves
Its monsters rest, whilst wrapt in bower and spray
Each bird is hushed that strech'd its pinions to the day.
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