Famous Evenfall Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Evenfall poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous evenfall poems. These examples illustrate what a famous evenfall poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Sons of Martha

by Rudyard Kipling
 The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
But the Sons of Martha favour their Mother of the careful soul and the troubled heart.
And because she lost her temper once, and because she was rude to the Lord her Guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons, world without end, reprieve, or rest.

It is their care...Read more of this...

Elementalist

by Robert William Service
 Could Fate ordain a lot for me
 Beyond all human ills,
I think that I would choose to be
 A shephard of the hills;
With shaggy cloak and cape where skies
 Eternally are blue
How I would stare with quiet eyes
 At passing you!

And you would stare at static me,
 Beside my patient flock;
And I would watch you silently,
 A one with...Read more of this...

Evenfall

by Robert William Service
 When day is done I steal away
 To fold my hands in rest,
And of my hours this moment grey
 I love the best;
So quietly I sit alone
 And wait for evenfall,
When in the dusk doves sweetly moan
 And crickets call.

With heart of humble gratitude
 How it is good to bide,
And know the joy of solitude
 In eventide!
When one is...Read more of this...

My Kingdom

by Robert Louis Stevenson
 Down by a shining water well 
I found a very little dell, 
No higher than my head. 
The heather and the gorse about 
In summer bloom were coming out, 
Some yellow and some red. 

I called the little pool a sea; 
The little hills were big to me; 
For I am very small. 
I made a boat, I made...Read more of this...

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