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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENSONG, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty calls and gives no warning Last Line: And that's the end of night. | |||
Beauty calls and gives no warning, Shadows rise and wander on the day. In the twilight, in the quiet evening, We shall rise and smile and go away. Over the flaming leaves Freezes the sky. It is the season grieves, Not you, not I. All our spring-times, all our summers, We have kept the longing warm within. Now we leave the after-comers To attain the dreams we did not win. O we have wakened, Sweet, and had our birth, And that's the end of earth; And we have toiled and smiled and kept the light, And that's the end of night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE A VISION OF SPRING (LATE WINTER, 1915) by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE HEADLAND ORCHARDS by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE SANTA BARBARA BEACH by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE SEA DREAM by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE THE APPLES by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE THE BIRD AND THE TREE by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE THE LESSER CHILDREN (A THRENODY AT THE HUNTING SEASON) by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE TO CHILDREN by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE THREE O'CLOCK: MORNING by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE |
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