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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EVENING, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: The clouds were heaped like an evil dream
Last Line: May still remain to us
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight
First Line: The clouds were heaped like an evil dream
Last Line: May still remain to us
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight
THE clouds were heapèd like an evil dream,
A wall of blackness in the western skies,
But over them the shining air did seem
Even clearer than your eyes.
And for the seven sorrows of her soul
Mary has kindled seven great stars above.
Into the troubled heaven a radiance stole
Even whiter than our love.
O Heart, this evening let me watch alone,
That something of the light reflected thus,
Even when the journey of the star is done,
May still remain to us.
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