<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539760" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sunset</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Westward a league the city lay, with one<br>Cloud's imminent umbrage o'er it: when behold,<br>The incendiary sun<br>Dropped from the womb o' the vapour, rolled<br>'Mongst huddled towers and temples, 'twixt them set<br>Infinite ardour of candescent gold,<br>Encompassed minaret<br>And terrace and marmoreal spire<br>With conflagration: roofs enfurnaced, yet<br>Unmolten,-columns and cupolas flanked with fire,<br>Yet standing unconsumed<br>Of the fierce fervency,-and higher<br>Than all, their fringes goldenly illumed,<br>Dishevelled clouds, like massed empurpled smoke<br>From smouldering forges fumed:<br>Till suddenly the bright spell broke<br>With the sun sinking through some palace-floor<br>And vanishing wholly. Then the city woke,<br>Her mighty Fire-Dream o'er,<br>As who from out a sleep is raised<br>Of terrible loveliness, lasting hardly more<br>Than one most monumental moment; dazed<br>He looketh, having come<br>Forth of one world and witless gazed<br>Into another: ev'n so looked, for some<br>Brief while, the city-amazed, immobile, dumb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539760" data-title="A Sunset de William Watson" data-description="Westward a league the city lay, with one Cloud's imminent umbrage o'er it: when behold, The incendiary sun Dropped from the womb o' the vapour, rolled 'Mongst huddled towers and temples, 'twixt them set Infinite ardour of candescent gold, Encompas..."></div> </div> </div>

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