Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUNSET IN MARCH, by EVA MARTIN



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First Line: All day the busy wind had swept the sky
Last Line: Of angels crowding round his royal bed.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight


ALL day the busy wind had swept the sky,
And now great seas of pure, translucent blue
Rolled stainless overhead, while evening threw
O'er all the world her veil of azure dye.
The leafless trees stretched longing hands on high
To catch the sun's last kisses, ere he drew
Behind the westward-driven clouds that flew
To shield him when his hour of death was nigh.

He was engulfed in floods of rapturous flame.
The desolate trees with ghostly whisperings
Saw him depart. Soft clouds with silent tread
Host upon host more closely pressing came;
Till all the west was filled with crimson wings
Of angels crowding round his royal bed.





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