Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR


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TWILIGHT-PIECE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden river-reach afar
Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain!
Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery


The golden river-reach afar
Kisses the golden skies of even,
And there's the first faint lover's star
Alight along the walls of heaven.

The river murmurs to the boughs,
The boughs make music each to each,
And still an amorous west wind soughs
And loiters down the lonesome reach.

And here on the slim arch that spans
The rippling stream, in dark outline,
You see the poor old fisherman's
Bowed form and patient rod and line.

A picture better than all art,
Since none could catch that sunset stain,
Or set in the soft twilight's heart
This small strange touch of human pain!





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