A Sunset at Les Eboulements

Archibald Lampman 1861 (Upper Canada) – 1899 (Ottawa, Canada)



Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side
  The scythe-swept fields are silent. Slowly home
  By the long beach the high-piled hay-carts come,
  Splashing the pale salt shallows. Over wide
  Fawn-coloured wastes of mud the slipping tide,
  Round the dun rocks and wattled fisheries,
  Creeps murmuring in. And now by twos and threes,
  O'er the slow spreading pools with clamorous chide,
  Belated crows from strip to strip take flight.
 Soon will the first star shine; yet ere the night
 Reach onward to the pale-green distances,
 The sun's last shaft beyond the gray sea-floor
 Still dreams upon the Kamouraska shore,
 And the long line of golden villages.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCAADDAEEFGGF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 663
Words 108
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English." Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. more…

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