Evenfall
James
Dawson
Dawson, James
Metadata research and editing
DVPP Project Team
Kailey
Fukushima
University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the public domain
Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that James Dawson was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/369). (AC)
Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal
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Wrathfully in the ruddy West away,
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Evenfal
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Wrathfully in the ruddy West away,
The sun goes down beyond yon upland field,
As though he angry were that one more day
Unto another night is forced to yield.
Anon the West is broken into bars
Of orange, amber, gray, and dusky gold ;
And darkness, stealing on, draws out the stars,
Their nightly vigil—long and lone—to hold.
Within yon wood, the last bird-warble fails,
And all the air, emptied of every sound,
Inviolate stillness holds. Above, around,
The calm repose procured of peace prevails—
The calm, the sweet ; and now complete o’er all
Hath gloomed the dim, the dusky evenfall.
James Dawson.