English Poetry. Charlotte Turner Smith. Evening. Шарлотта Смит.

Charlotte Turner Smith (Шарлотта Смит)

Evening

OH! soothing hour, when glowing day,
Low in the western wave declines,
And village murmurs die away,
And bright the vesper planet shines;
I love to hear the gale of Even
Breathing along the new-leaf'd copse,
And feel the freshening dew of Heaven,
Fall silently in limpid drops.

For, like a friend's consoling sighs,
That breeze of night to me appears;
And, as soft dew from Pity's eyes,
Descend those pure celestial tears.
Alas ! for those who long have borne,
Like me, a heart by sorrow riven,
Who, but the plaintive winds, will mourn,
What tears will fall, but those of Heaven? 

Charlotte Turner Smith’s other poems:

1. Sonnet 61. ILL-Omen’d Bird! Whose Cries Portentous Float
2. Sonnet 67. On Passing Over A Dreary Tract
3. Sonnet 45. On Leaving A Part Of Sussex
4. Sonnet 42. Composed During a Walk
5. Occasional Address

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Evening (“The sun is set; the swallows are asleep”)

John Clare (Джон Клэр) Evening (“Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track”)

Charles Mackay (Чарльз Маккей) Evening (“Tis sweet at morn among the corn”)

Joanna Baillie (Джоанна Бейли) Evening (“HOW lovely, Evening, is thy parting smile!”)

Robert Anderson (Роберт Андерсон) Evening (“How sweet ’tis to rove at the close of the day”)

Thomas Aird (Томас Эрд) Evening (“Those shouts proclaim the village school is out”)

Oliver Holmes (Оливер Холмс) Evening (“DAY hath put on his jacket, and around”)

Marjorie Pickthall (Марджори Пиктхолл) Evening (“WHEN the white iris folds the drowsing bee”)

Menella Smedley (Менелла Смедли) Evening (“It is the hour of evening”)

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