Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | II. Light: Day: Night | | Evening | | Archibald Lampman (1861–1899) |
| | | FROM upland slopes I see the cows file by, | |
| Lowing, great-chested, down the homeward trail, | |
| By dusking fields and meadows shining pale | |
| With moon-tipped dandelions; flickering high, | |
| A peevish night-hawk in the western sky | 5 |
| Beats up into the lucent solitudes, | |
| Or drops with griding wing; the stilly woods | |
| Grow dark and deep, and gloom mysteriously. | |
| Cool night-winds creep and whisper in mine ear; | |
| The homely cricket gossips at my feet; | 10 |
| From far-off pools and wastes of reeds I hear | |
| With ebb and change the chanting frogs break sweet | |
| In full Pandean chorus; one by one | |
| Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on. | | | | |
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