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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSET IN THE HARBOR, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography
First Line: Into night's arms there sinks the wounded sun
Last Line: And covers her with veils of mauve and gray!
Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: Into night's arms there sinks the wounded sun
Last Line: And covers her with veils of mauve and gray!
Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight
INTO Night's arms there sinks the wounded sun,
Leaving a trail of blood across the skies. ...
A settling sea-gull wheels and calls and cries;
The harbor boats, as homing children run
Into their mother's arms when day is done,
Make for their moorings as the red day dies,
And fold their wings like tired butterflies—
Across the bay there booms the sunset gun!
The boat flags fall ... the guardian lighthouse glows ...
And swaying masts break out with bobbing lights;
The blushing bay a jeweled bosom shows;
Night herons hover in their questing flights—
Then Twilight comes, dusk handmaid of the Day,
And covers her with veils of mauve and gray!
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