Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A THOUGHT AT SUNSET, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still that last look is solemn! Through thy rays Last Line: Heirs of a purer day, with its unsetting star. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
STILL that last look is solemn! through thy rays, O sun! to-morrow will give back, we know, The joy to nature's heart. Yet through the glow Of clouds that mantle thy decline, our gaze Tracks thee with love half-fearful: and in days When earth too much adored thee, what a swell Of mournful passion, deepening mighty lays, Told how the dying bade thy light farewell, O sun of Greece! O glorious, festal sun! Lost, lost! -- for them thy golden hours were done, And darkness lay before them! Happier far Are we, not thus to thy bright wheels enchained, Not thus for thy last parting unsustained -- Heirs of a purer day, with its unsetting star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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