Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A WINTER SUNSET, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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A WINTER SUNSET, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wonderful glory of color
Last Line: Will guerdon thy trusting heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight


A WONDERFUL glory of color,
A splendor of shifting light—
Orange and scarlet and purple—
Flamed in the sky to-night.
Over the rolling river,
And over the busy town,
Soft as a benediction
The rich rays floated down.

They turned the sails of the fishers
Into opal, rose, and gold;
The tall and smoky chimneys
Were like castle turrets bold.
Nothing of plain or common,
But took a halo strange,
In the light of the lovely sunset,
With its fairy spell of change.

The day had been long and gloomy,
Weary with mist and rain,
A day for the heart to brood on
Sorrow and loss and pain;
But there came, with the light of evening,
A wind that swept away
All the shadow and darkness
Out of the winter day.

Is thy life, O pilgrim, dreary,
Veiled from the cheery light?
Perhaps for thee is the promise
Of joy with the waning light.
Fairer than noonday splendor,
Richer than beams of stars,
The lustrous glory of sunset
May burn through golden bars.

For ever the sun is shining;
If only thy soul can wait,
It will find the light and beauty,
Though they seem to tarry late.
The soundless, sun-bright portal
Will suddenly swing apart,
And the grace of the life immortal
Will guerdon thy trusting heart.





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