English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 734. Liz |
| | | Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) |
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| THE CRIMSON light of sunset falls | |
| Through the grey glamour of the murmuring rain, | |
| And creeping o’er the housetops crawls | |
| Through the black smoke upon the broken pane, | |
| Steals to the straw on which she lies, | 5 |
| And tints her thin black hair and hollow cheeks, | |
| Her sun-tanned neck, her glistening eyes,— | |
| While faintly, sadly, fitfully she speaks. | |
| But when it is no longer light, | |
| The pale girl smiles, with only One to mark, | 10 |
| And dies upon the breast of Night, | |
| Like trodden snowdrift melting in the dark. | |
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