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Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley


Evening


                         Ponte Al Mare, Pisa

I.

The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air;
The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep,
And evening’s breath, wandering here and there
Over the quivering surface of the stream,
Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.

II.

There is no dew on the dry grass to-night,
Nor damp within the shadow of the trees;
The wind is intermitting, dry, and light;
And in the inconstant motion of the breeze
The dust and straws are driven up and down,
And whirled about the pavement of the town.

III.

Within the surface of the fleeting river
The wrinkled image of the city lay,
Immovably unquiet, and forever
It trembles, but it never fades away;
Go to the...
You, being changed, will find it then as now.

IV.

The chasm in which the sun has sunk is shut
By darkest barriers of cinereous cloud,
Like mountain over mountain huddled--but
Growing and moving upwards in a crowd,
And over it a space of watery blue,
Which the keen evening star is shining through. 



Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem Theme: Evening

Percy Bysshe Shelley's other poems:
  1. Homer's Hymn to Minerva
  2. I Would Not Be A King
  3. The Fitful Alternations of the Rain
  4. To Mary
  5. Wine Of The Fairies


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Charlotte Smith Evening ("OH! soothing hour, when glowing day")
  • John Clare Evening ("Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track")
  • Charles Mackay Evening ("Tis sweet at morn among the corn")
  • Robert Anderson Evening ("How sweet 'tis to rove at the close of the day")
  • Joanna Baillie Evening ("HOW lovely, Evening, is thy parting smile!")
  • Thomas Aird Evening ("Those shouts proclaim the village school is out")
  • Menella Smedley Evening ("It is the hour of evening")
  • Oliver Holmes Evening ("DAY hath put on his jacket, and around")
  • Marjorie Pickthall Evening ("WHEN the white iris folds the drowsing bee")
  • John Keble Evening ("’Tis gone, that bright and orbèd blaze")
  • Ann Cristall Evening ("IN clouds drew on the evening's close")
  • Caroline Fry (Wilson) Evening ("WE walk'd by the side")
  • Walter De la Mare Evening ("When twilight darkens, and one by one")
  • Hilda Doolittle Evening ("The light passes")

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