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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness | |||
Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood Faint odors rise, that touch the heart like tears With inarticulate comfort. Lo, she bears A weary load — small cares that drug the blood, Small envies, sick desires for lesser good, — All day, till now the evening re-appears, They drop away, and she with wonder rears Her aching height from needless servitude. The tree-tops are all music; light and soft The brook's small feet go tinkling toward the sea Bearing the little day's distress afar; While yonder, in the stillness set aloft, My one great Grief, still glimmering down on me, Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd Star. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS GOOD COMPANY by KARLE WILSON BAKER |
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