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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTUMN VESPERS, by EDWIN COULSON CLARK
First Line: The season's turn now brings autumnal days
Last Line: We sense the fall.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall
First Line: The season's turn now brings autumnal days
Last Line: We sense the fall.
Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Fall
The season's turn now brings autumnal days
Whose sunsets subtly tint, through purpled haze,
October skies; and from the earth there strays
The evening chill.
The amber twilight dims in dusk's dull glow,
While spectered shadows flutter from the row
Of leafless tree-wraiths silhouetted low
Upon the hill.
The deepening darkness shrouds the lines which fade
Into the mist that veils, in eery shade,
The browning blackness; and afar, is made
The homing call.
An awesome silence fills the gloaming air,
A requiem from souls ... a farewell prayer . . .
To summer's wane; and then, quite unaware,
We sense the fall.
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