Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSET, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)


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First Line: The sunlit brush light to the dark rock lends
Last Line: And shuts the gold sticks of his crimson fan.


The sunlit brush light to the dark rock lends,
And gilds the summit of the mountain dome
Where sets the sun; beyond -- a bar of foam --
The endless sea begins where the earth ends:
Beneath me, night and silence; tired man wends
To where the smoking chimney marks his home.
The Angelus, deadened by the mists that roam
In the vast murmur of the ocean blends
As from the depth of an abyss, the sound
Of far-off voices in the space around
Comes from belated herdsmen with their clan.
The western sky is clothed in shadows gray;
The sun on rich dark clouds sinks slow away
And shuts the gold sticks of his crimson fan.






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