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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN CARMEL BAY, by MADGE CLOVER
First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day
Last Line: She steps into the night.
Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean
First Line: In carmel bay the fleeting day
Last Line: She steps into the night.
Subject(s): Carmel Bay, California; Night; Sea; Bedtime; Ocean
IN CARMEL Bay the fleeting day,
Reluctant, casts her robes away
And steps into the night.
The fragrant land on either hand
A crescent forms of glistening sand,
A bow to speed her flight.
O'er restless seas she runs at ease,
The chariot of the sun to seize,
Ere he shall drop from sight.
The pines in banks and solid ranks
Surrounding, seem pursuing flanks
Of Beauty's army green.
To hold her still against her will
A captive sweet the night to fill
With visions vaguely seen.
The tides run high against the sky,
Birds wing in flight and homeward fly,
To treetops tall and clean.
The waiting earth has spent her mirth
And silent, rolls her shadowed girth
In pale consenting night.
There is no way for Day to stay,
Beyond her time or path to stray—
She steps into the night.
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