Versos English William Lyon Phelps Twilight

English poem

Twilight

by (1865–1943)

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The stately tragedy of dusk Drew to its perfect close, The virginal white evening star Sank, and the red moon rose.

Although she gives us many beautiful pictures of nature, she is primarily a poet of love. White-hot passion without a trace of anything common or unclean; absolute surrender; whole-hearted devotion expressed in pure singing. Nothing is finer than this--to realize that the primal impulse is as strong as in the breast of a cave-woman, yet illumined by clear, high intelligence, and pouring out its feeling in a voice of gracious charm.