Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VESPERS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poet's Biography First Line: I leave the city behind me Last Line: And the thrushes sing their hymn. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; Hymns (as Literary Form); Jesus Christ; Prayer; Religion; Worship; Cathedrals; Theology | ||||||||
I LEAVE the city behind me, Shaking its dust from my feet; Leaving its thunder and roar of trade, I haste to the covert sweet, Where from the elm-boughs arching, As in long cathedrals dim, Through the hush of the lingering twilight The thrushes sing a hymn. In the town were hurry and bustle, And squalor and sin were there, And the trail of the worship of Mammon, And the burden of strenuous care. In the fields are silence and perfume, And one may kneel and pray In the calm and cloistered forest At the tender fall of day. The birds go flying homeward To the nest in the tree-tops dim, And the vespers die into stillness The thrush has finished his hymn. Oh, beautiful lanes, I love you As you skirt the babbling brooks, As you seek the foot of the mountain, As you find the hidden nooks, Where the ferns in great green masses The edge of the swamp-land rim, Where I linger till stars awake above And the thrushes sing their hymn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME? by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER |
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