Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWILIGHT MUSINGS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY


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First Line: Oh, at this hour, when silently
Last Line: To the life-key of thy soul!
Subject(s): Memory; Silence; Thought; Time; Thinking


Oh, at this hour, when silently
The shades of evening close around,
How throbs the pulse of my life-key
With pleasure, but in memory found.

In the dewy twilight hour,
Most my fond heart feels her power;
Happy days, now pass'd away,
Come before me bright and gay;

Then, from memory's secret cells,
Fancy brings, with potent spells,
Joys that now I know no more—
Joys that time may yet restore.

Ah! not vainly I recall
Hours of bliss so lately known,
For, yielding thus to Fancy's thrall,
I feel their brightness still my own.

Hope whispers that a happy hour
The future yet may have in store,
And, though unkindly fate may lour,
I hope to greet thee soon once more!

And, oh, let memory thoughts of me
Through the moments as they roll,
Bring, though severed far are we,
To the life-key of thy soul!





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