Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSET, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)


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First Line: The furze that flaunts it in its granite home
Last Line: Draws shut the golden sticks of its red fan.


The furze that flaunts it in its granite home
Gilds the bleak summit where the late sun spends;
Far-off, still shining with its bar of foam
The endless sea begins where the earth ends.

At my feet is night, and silence. Birds desist
From song. Man is balmed by his hearth-smoke as with myrrh.
Alone, the Angelus, wavering in the mist,
Blends with the ocean's vast, unceasing stir.

Then, as from a deep abysm, back from rock
From field and vale low far-off voices rise:
Belated shepherd calling to his flock.

The whole horizon yields to twilight's ban;
And the parting sun, in the rich and sombre skies,
Draws shut the golden sticks of its red fan.





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