Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE



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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.





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