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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER MOODS, by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love at eventide to walk alone Last Line: And see the light fade into gloom around. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Summer; Sunset; Twilight | |||
I LOVE at eventide to walk alone, Down narrow glens, o'erhung with dewy thorn. Where from the long grass underneath, the snail, Jet black, creeps out, and sprouts his timid horn. I love to muse o'er meadows newly mown, Where withering grass perfumes the sultry air; Where bees search round, with sad and weary drone, In vain, for flowers that bloomed but newly there; While in the juicy corn the hidden quail Cries, "Wet my foot;" and, hid as thoughts unborn, The fairy-like and seldom-seen land-rail Utters "Craik, craik," like voices underground, Right glad to meet the evening's dewy veil, And see the light fade into gloom around. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN TWILIGHT COMES by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE |
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