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Poem by Hilda Doolittle


Evening


The light passes
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flower—
the hepaticas, wide-spread
under the light
grow faint—
the petals reach inward,
the blue tips bend
toward the bluer heart
and the flowers are lost.

The cornel-buds are still white,
but shadows dart
from the cornel-roots—
black creeps from root to root,
each leaf
cuts another leaf on the grass,
shadow seeks shadow,
then both leaf
and leaf-shadow are lost.



Hilda Doolittle


Hilda Doolittle's other poems:
  1. The Helmsman
  2. The Shrine
  3. Mid-Day
  4. Pursuit
  5. Orion Dead


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")
  • Percy Shelley Evening ("The sun is set; the swallows are asleep")
  • 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")
  • Ann Radcliffe Evening ("Evening veil'd in dewy shades")

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