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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEDGE SONGS: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poet's Biography
First Line: In the west the sun departing
Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: In the west the sun departing
Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus
Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight
IN the west the sun departing
Leaves the weary day asleep,
And the willows trail their streamers
In these waters still and deep.
Flow, my bitter tears, flow ever;
All I love I leave behind;
Sadly whisper here the willows,
And the reed shakes in the wind.
Into my deep lonely sufferings
Tenderly you shine afar,
As athwart these reeds and rushes
Trembles soft yon evening star.
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