Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN EVENING SCENE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO


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AN EVENING SCENE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here all is joy and all is light
Last Line: Knows the whole secret and is blest.
Subject(s): Creation; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight


Here all is joy and all is light,
The spider, with untiring tread,
Ties to the tulip's turban bright
His circling maze of silvery thread.

The quivering dragon-fly appears,
Proud to behold her round dark eyes
Glassed in the limpid stream, that rears
A world of breathing mysteries.

The full-blown rose, grown young again,
To blushing buds her love avows;
The birds pour forth their evening strain
Of melody from sunlit boughs.

Far in the woods, where silence dwells,
The timid fawn securely dreams;
'Mid emerald moss with velvet cells,
Like burnished gold the beetle gleams.

Pale as some sweet consumptive maid
Regaining life, the moon doth rise,
Dispelling every cloud or shade
With radiance from her opal eyes.

The wallflower, that to ruin clings,
Now frolics with the wandering bee;
The furrow feels each germ that springs
'Neath the warm earth, and laughs with glee.

All lives and plays its part with grace;
The sunbeam on the portal's sill,
The shadow on the water's face,
The blue sky o'er the verdant hill.

Field, glen and forest share the whole
Of Nature's ecstasy and rest:
Fear nothing, Man! Creation's soul
Knows the whole secret and is blest.





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