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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAPE COTTAGE AT SUNSET, by WILLIAM BELCHER GLAZIER
First Line: We stood upon the ragged rocks
Last Line: Nor fix that radiance in the west.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: We stood upon the ragged rocks
Last Line: Nor fix that radiance in the west.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
WE stood upon the ragged rocks,
When the long day was nearly done;
The waves had ceased their sullen shocks,
And lapped our feet with murmuring tone,
And o'er the bay in streaming locks
Blew the red tresses of the sun.
Along the west the golden bars
Still to a deeper glory grew;
Above our heads the faint, few stars
Looked out from the unfathomed blue;
And the fair city's clamorous jars
Seemed melted in that evening hue.
O sunset sky! O purple tide!
O friends to friends that closer pressed!
Those glories have in darkness died,
And ye have left my longing breast.
I could not keep you by my side,
Nor fix that radiance in the west.
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