Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEA PICTURES: 2. EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH


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SEA PICTURES: 2. EVENING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the thickening twilight presses down
Last Line: Wraps in a shroud the dying light.
Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean


Now thickening twilight presses down
Upon the harbor and the town,
And all around a misty pall
Of dull gray cloud hangs over all.
The huddling fishing-sloops lie safe,
While far away the breakers chafe.
And now the landsman's straining eye
Mingles the gray sea with the sky.
Far out upon the darkening deep
The white ghosts of the ocean leap.
Boone Island's light, a lonely star,
Is flashing o'er the waves afar.
Up the broad beach the sea rolls in
In never-ending foam and din;
And all along the craggy shore
Resounds one long continuous roar.
We turn away, and hail each gleam
Where lamps from cottage windows stream.
For sad and solemn is the moan
Of ocean when the day has flown,
And, borne on dusky wings, the night
Wraps in a shroud the dying light.





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