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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SUMMER TWILIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a summer gloaming, faint and sweet
Last Line: Wheeling the self-same circuit o'er and o'er.
Subject(s): Summer
First Line: It is a summer gloaming, faint and sweet
Last Line: Wheeling the self-same circuit o'er and o'er.
Subject(s): Summer
It is a Summer gloaming, faint and sweet,
A gloaming brighten'd by an infant moon,
Fraught with the fairest light of middle June;
The lonely garden echoes to my feet,
And hark! O hear I not the gentle dews,
Fretting the silent forest in his sleep?
Or does the stir of housing insects creep
Thus faintly on mine ear? Day's many hues
Waned with the paling light and are no more,
And none but drowsy pinions beat the air:
The bat is circling softly by my door,
And, silent as the snow-flake, leaves his lair;
O'er the still copses flitting here and there,
Wheeling the self-same circuit o'er and o'er.
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