Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: A something quiet and subdued
Last Line: Would it were dusk alway!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Faces; Nightmares


A SOMETHING quiet and subdued
In all the faces that we meet;
A sense of rest, a solitude
O'er all the crowded street;
The very noises seem to be
Crude utterings of harmony,
And all we hear, and all we see,
Has in it something sweet.

Thoughts come to us as from a dream
Of some long-vanished yesterday;
The voices of the children seem
Like ours, when young as they;
The hand of Charity extends
To meet Misfortune's, where it blends,
Veiled by the dusk -- and oh, my friends,
Would it were dusk alway!





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