Winter Evening

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h3><SPAN name='p35' id='p35'>WINTER EVENING</SPAN></h3> <div class='poem'> <div class='stanza'> <p>To-night the very horses springing by</p> <p>Toss gold from whitened nostrils. In a dream</p> <p>The streets that narrow to the westward gleam</p> <p>Like rows of golden palaces; and high</p> <p>From all the crowded chimneys tower and die</p> <p>A thousand aureoles. Down in the west</p> <p>The brimming plains beneath the sunset rest,</p> <p>One burning sea of gold. Soon, soon shall fly</p> <p>The glorious vision, and the hours shall feel</p> <p>A mightier master; soon from height to height,</p> <p>With silence and the sharp unpitying stars,</p> <p>Stern creeping frosts, and winds that touch like steel,</p> <p>Out of the depth beyond the eastern bars,</p> <p>Glittering and still shall come the awful night.</p> </div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />