Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE'S EVENING, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE First Line: Three score and ten! The tumult of the world Last Line: While o'er my soul god spreads his mantlepeace. Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
Three score and ten! The tumult of the world Grows dull upon my inattentive ear: The bugle calls are faint, the flags are furled, Gone is the rapture, vanished too the fear; The evening's blessed stillness covers all, As o'er the fields she folds her cloak of grey; Hushed are the winds, the brown leaves slowly fall, The russet clouds hang on the fringe of day. What fairer hour than this? No stir of morn With cries of waking life, nor shafts of noon Hot tresses from the flaming sun-god born Nor midnight's shivering stars and marble moon; But softly twilight falls and toil doth cease, While o'er my soul God spreads his mantlepeace. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY THE CITY'S CROWN by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE |
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