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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING, by GEORG HEYM Poet's Biography
First Line: The crimsoned day is steeped in tyrian dyes
Last Line: Tall night, on shadowy buskins, mutely stands.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: The crimsoned day is steeped in tyrian dyes
Last Line: Tall night, on shadowy buskins, mutely stands.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
The crimsoned day is steeped in Tyrian dyes,
The stream runs white, washed with a fabulous glaze.
A sail. One with the flying vessel, flies
The skipper's silhouette, black on the blaze.
On every island autumn's forests lift
Their ruddy heads where space spreads wide her wings.
From dark defiles low, leafy murmurs drift,
Of woodland music, soft as cithern strings.
With outpoured darkness now the east is soaked,—
Like blue wine from an urn that careless hands
Have broken. And afar, in mourning cloaked,
Tall night, on shadowy buskins, mutely stands.
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