Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REVERIE AT TWILIGHT, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW


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REVERIE AT TWILIGHT, by                    
First Line: The past is shadowy with mist
Last Line: And the night is frosted delicately with grief.
Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness


The past is shadowy with mist
And mellowed recollections fade;
Memories may hauntingly persist
As candles in the dusk, only to gutter out
Finished as a melody that's played
And the last chord echoed out...
Echoed out till only hollow emptiness is left about!

Vivid sunlight and crimson ivy leaf
In a flood of scarlet on gray stone chapel walls:
With a gust of autumn wind the ivy falls
And the dusk is frosted delicately with grief.

And there are old desires like cold fires dying,
The embers fade, no man remembers...
In spring the moon-drenched wind goes sighing
Past the lilac-scented trysting places
Emptied of the old lovers, lo, these many years,
The air is heavy with the sadness of forgotten faces
And the wind seems moist with tears.

And then the sounds of laughter come
And a murmuring of words.
Arm in arm two lovers pass:
A moment of tinkling laughter, emptiness afterwards,
Save for the idle shadows on the grass
And the unseen ghosts that are dumb.

Who can speak the names that chime
Like the echos of a bell
Recurring from an ancient time
To break the wizard years' slow spell?
What magic bring to these mellow places
The long-forgotten faces?
The heavy wind goes weeping
Off to distant skies
And the dark comes slowly creeping
Around each deserted nest,
Each colored autumn leaf.

The twilight dies
As unseen ghosts stir in a long unrest,
And the night is frosted delicately with grief.





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