[Still and bright in twilight shining]
Glitters the evening star
closing rosebuds
shed their fragrance
the river pales
slumber near
solemn silence
the fading day
hush of sacred sadness
weary wild
sweep of trees
beneath the power of
twilight’s frown
wide west decline
& celestial sympathy
Soft & sweet the silver beam
through the bower
bright drops
unnoticed break
August 13, 1836. Branwell Brontë
March 25, 2022. Andrew Taylor
On Caroline
Light of ancestral hall
palace for a pall garden
to aisles & eternal sleep
mute & motionless
Slow midnight moments
to morning’s beam
churchyard stone can
hide past smiles
memory with her soul
joy itself has flown
[1837]
[2022]
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Andrew Taylor has published three collections with Shearsman Books, the latest being ‘Not There-Here’ published in October 2021. He has edited the Collected Poems of Peter Finch, published by Seren in May 2022. He is currently working on the poems of Branwell Brontë, which he is ‘sampling.’ www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com @dradny