Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is low in air Last Line: Then afterward to bed. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight | ||||||||
THE wind is low in air, And shakes the box-tree bare Of spice, long hoarded there; Cut black against the orange sky, Two neighbors hurry by. The door's ajar. I see The table set for me, My mother in her chair Ready to say the prayer. In journeyings to and fro Our poor wild lives do go -- Then wind, scent, flare of sky, The cool of evening nigh; Roof, loaf, the fond word said -- Then afterward to bed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN TWILIGHT COMES by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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