Astrophel and Other Poems
Astrophel and Other Poems
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
3 Dec, 2019
A star in the silence that followsThe song of the death of the sunSpeaks music in heaven, and the hollowsAnd heights of the world are as one;One lyre that outsings and outlightensThe rapture of sunset, and thrillsMute night till the sense of it brigh
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A star in the silence that followsThe song of the death of the sunSpeaks music in heaven, and the hollowsAnd heights of the world are as one;One lyre that outsings and outlightensThe rapture of sunset, and thrillsMute night till the sense of it brightensThe soul that it fills.
The flowers of the sun that is sunkenHang heavy of heart as of head;The bees that have eaten and drunkenThe soul of their sweetness are fled;But a sunflower of song, on whose honeyMy spirit has fed as a bee,Makes sunnier than morning was sunnyThe twilight for me. Less