Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SEEN IN TWILIGHT, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: Too bold a light suits not all qualities
Last Line: Responding calm and safe to that unstaring face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund


Too bold a light suits not all qualities;
See, now that evening primroses the sky,
The dark distinction of our roofs and trees
Which we made nothing of when noon rode high.

These twigs are etched against that light they love
Myriads, and each one wins its revelation;
Obscure they were until the sun's remove,
And now each makes its mark and intimation.

So with some spirits, who have long been known
But vaguely in the lamping riot of life,
Their curious beauty then was overshone;
And now comes twilight, now their hieroglyph
Emerges firm with individual grace,
Responding calm and safe to that unstaring face.





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