Twilight Calm by Christina Georgina Rossetti
As the sun disappears behind clouds, flowers close, animals settle to rest, and nocturnal creatures emerge amid distant cattle calls and the sea's murmur. The speaker wonders whether the nightingale's song expresses joy rather than love and pain; stars appear, and night's arrival ends the evening's calm.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 573 words
First lines
O pleasant eventide! / Clouds on the western side / Grow gray and grayer, hiding the warm sun: / The bees and birds, their happy labors done, / Seek their close nests and bide.
Screened in the leafy wood / The stock-doves sit and brood: / The very squirrel leaps from bough to bough / But lazily; pauses; and settles now / Where once he stored his food.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verses follow flowers, woodland animals, birds, insects, and changing light through the transition from evening to night.
- Lyric Poetry — The speaker addresses the evening and questions the feelings humans attribute to the nightingale's song in rhymed five-line stanzas.
Tags
twilight · wildlife · nightingale · birdsong · night · flowers
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 573 words
- Structure: 1 section, 12 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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