English Poetry. James Weldon Johnson. Down by the Carib Sea. 6. Sunset in the Tropics. Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон.

James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон)

Down by the Carib Sea. 6. Sunset in the Tropics

A silver flash from the sinking sun,
Then a shot of crimson across the sky
That, bursting, lets a thousand colors fly
And riot among the clouds; they run,
Deepening in purple, flaming in gold,
Changing, and opening fold after fold,
Then fading through all of the tints of the rose into gray,
Till, taking quick fright at the coming night,
They rush out down the west,
In hurried quest
Of the fleeing day.

Now above where the tardiest color flares a moment yet,
One point of light, now two, now three are set
To form the starry stairs,--
And, in her fire-fly crown,
Queen Night, on velvet slippered feet, comes softly down.

James Weldon Johnson’s other poems:

1. The Color Sergeant
2. Mother Night
3. Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl
4. The Temptress
5. The Ghost of Deacon Brown

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