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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO WORLDS, by VIRGINIA STACY
First Line: Across the vale the long day pales
Last Line: Starve feebly for an hour more gay.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime
First Line: Across the vale the long day pales
Last Line: Starve feebly for an hour more gay.
Subject(s): Birds; Forests; Night; Woods; Bedtime
Across the vale the long day pales
And shimmers to a mysteried close;
Of amaranthine hue the veils
That cloud the sunset's gaudy rose.
Far off, in city mart and way,
A toiling muddle ends its day.
Red glow-worms thread the darkening streets
And, hurrying on frantic feet,
A scattered herd seeks rest in play.
A moon swings high its molten crown
To flood the star-dewed world with gold;
The pine-tree's plaint is dimly drowned
Beneath the sounds the shadows hold;
A creature of the wood gives voice
In yearning cry its cosmic need;
Hearing, the birds wake to rejoice.
Drenched is the night with beauty's creed.
A million moths, blind in the glare
Of light whose brilliance shames the day,
Crowding the passion-heated air,
Starve feebly for an hour more gay.
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