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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: From upland slopes I see the cows file by
Last Line: Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on.
Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: From upland slopes I see the cows file by
Last Line: Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on.
Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight
FROM upland slopes I see the cows file by,
Lowing, great-chested, down the homeward trail,
By dusking fields and meadows shining pale
With moon-tipped dandelions; flickering high,
A peevish night-hawk in the western sky
Beats up into the lucent solitudes,
Or drops with griding wing; the stilly woods
Grow dark and deep, and gloom mysteriously.
Cool night-winds creep and whisper in mine ear;
The homely cricket gossips at my feet;
From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear
With ebb and change the chanting frogs break sweet
In full Pandean chorus; one by one
Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on.
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