Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cricket sang, / and set the sun, / and workmen finished, o Last Line: And so the night became. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1104 Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight | ||||||||
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came, -- A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home, -- And so the night became. | 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 |
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