The day is ending,
The night is descending;
The marsh is frozen,
The river dead.
Through clouds like ashes
The red sun flashes
On village windows
That glimmer red.
The snow recommences;
The buried fences
Mark no longer
The road o'er the plain;
While through the meadows,
Like fearful shadows,
Slowly passes
A funeral train.
The bell is pealing,
And every feeling
Within me responds
To the dismal knell;
Shadows are trailing,
My heart is bewailing
And tolling within
Like a funeral bell.
The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems 1845
- Carillon
- The Belfry of Bruges
- A Gleam of Sunshine
- The Arsenal at Springfield
- Nuremberg
- The Norman Baron
- Rain in Summer
- To A Child
- The Occultation of Orion
- The Bridge
- To The Driving Cloud
- The Day is Done
- Afternoon in February
- To An Old Danish Songbook
- Walter von der Vogelweid
- Drinking Song
- The Old Clock on the Stairs
- The Arrow and the Song