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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EQUATORIAL SUNSET, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE
First Line: The sun has set-and sea and sky are blending
Last Line: Clouds with remembrance many a lover's eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory
First Line: The sun has set-and sea and sky are blending
Last Line: Clouds with remembrance many a lover's eye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory
THE sun has set—and sea and sky are blending
In tints of purple, amaranth, and gold,
While fretted clouds which stretch in line unending
New harmonies of light and shade unfold.
Like a young bride with cheeks incarnadined,
The crimson main droops deepening every hour.
Spiced with the breath of many a twilight flower,
Steals on the shadowy dusk the soft night wind,
Bringing forgetfulness of place and time.
Lo! from her bed of waters, gleaming white
'Mid soft unveilings of translucent light,
Fair Venus rises vestally sublime,
And down the jewell'd splendour of the sky
Clouds with remembrance many a lover's eye!
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