Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOOKING WESTWARD, by JOHN GRAY DUNCAN


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First Line: Evening's shadowed eyes
Last Line: And calls them all still onward to the west.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


Evening's shadowed eyes
Glow in the vast consideration of life's sighs,
And tumult rises blindly to the skies,
And life and time together pass away.

Dust in evening's way,
And folly in the passion of its fervent lay,
And a last rumor that it cannot stay
To please the world that knows not where it goes.

Wind of evening blows,
And the long trail in glory's admiration glows,
And on the way a timeless yearning flows,
And there they stand to take a last farewell.

Evening shadows dwell
In the consolation of a recover'd spell,
And here lost hopes of gladden'd fortunes tell,
Peace proves its harmony in pleasure lies.

Light in evening's eyes,
And memory surmounts the traveler's surprise,
And goes before him as the wonder flies
That a new world begins where this one ends.

Evening softly sends
A word before it all communication blends,
Harmonious expression for its friends,
And calls them all still onward to the west.





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