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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When twilight darkens, and one by one
Last Line: Fills earth with wonder and mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: When twilight darkens, and one by one
Last Line: Fills earth with wonder and mystery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
When twilight darkens, and one by one,
The sweet birds to their nests have gone;
When to green banks the glow-worms bring
Pale lamps to lighten evening;
Then stirs in his thick sleep the owl,
Through the dewy air to prowl.
Hawking the meadows, swiftly he flits,
While the small mouse a-trembling sits
With tiny eye of fear upcast
Until his brooding shape be past,
Hiding her where the moonbeams beat,
Casting black shadows in the wheat.
Now all is still: the field-man is
Lapped deep in slumbering silentness.
Not a leaf stirs, but clouds on high
Pass in dim flocks across the sky,
Puffed by a breeze too light to move
Aught but these wakeful sheep above.
O, what an arch of light now spans
These fields by night no longer Man's!
Their ancient Master is abroad,
Walking beneath the moonlight cold:
His presence is the stillness, He
Fills earth with wonder and mystery.
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