Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GRECIAN SUNSET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: In perfect kingliness now reigns the sun
Last Line: Of a victorious rest, he passes all alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Evening; Greece; Sunset; Twilight; Greeks


IN perfect Kingliness now reigns the Sun;
At morn, as one who girds himself for speed,
A Hero prompt to do a mighty deed,
And not to rest until the deed be done,
He rose: -- at noon he wore the guise of one,
Who feels the purpose that his will decreed
Half-perfect, and goes onward to his meed,
Stronger than were his labour just begun;
And now his aim attained, his triumph known,
In conscious dignity he mounts his throne
Of golden air, and ere the eve can spread
Her pale-rose veil above his royal head,
No courtier clouds around him, to the bed
Of a victorious rest, he passes all alone.





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