Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHEN EVENING FLOWS, by IDA LITTLE HALE



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WHEN EVENING FLOWS, by                    
First Line: The slowly pacing hours have reached once more
Last Line: The long cool evening flows like healing balm.
Subject(s): Evening; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunset; Twilight


The slowly pacing hours have reached once more
Those distant portals glowing in the west,
And coming shadows beckon one to rest
And dream awhile beside a placid shore.
The bay is still, untouched by dipping oar;
Again we watch the sunset colors burn,
The first pale stars in changeless orbits turn,
And on the palms a flood of silver pour.

The flaming pageantry dies out, and then,
Eternal as the ages, countless stars
Pattern the sky and shine, remote and calm.
Into the restless, seeking hearts of men,
That bear, each one, their deeply hidden scars,
The long cool evening flows like healing balm.





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