Famous Sunsetting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ave atque Vale (In memory of Charles Baudelaire)

...e 
Was lighted, and thine hungering heart he fed 
 Who feeds our hearts with fame. 

Therefore he too now at thy soul's sunsetting, 
 God of all suns and songs, he too bends down 
 To mix his laurel with thy cypress crown, 
And save thy dust from blame and from forgetting. 
 Therefore he too, seeing all thou wert and art, 
 Compassionate, with sad and sacred heart, 
Mourns thee of many his children the last dead, 
 And hollows with strange tears and alien sighs 
 Thine unmelo...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles


Mater Triumphalis

...hy breast.

I shall burn up before thee, pass and perish,
As haze in sunrise on the red sea-line;
But thou from dawn to sunsetting shalt cherish
The thoughts that led and souls that lighted mine.

Reared between night and noon and truth and error,
Each twilight-travelling bird that trills and screams
Sickens at midday, nor can face for terror
The imperious heaven's inevitable extremes.

I have no spirit of skill with equal fingers
At sign to sharpen or to slacken strings;
I k...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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