Sonnet
Sonnet - meaning Summary
Evening Ends the Mind's Labor
This sonnet asks for a cessation of seeing and thinking as evening joins earth and the world falls still. The speaker urges the fragile, embodied self to gather the day's closing light as sustenance. As shadow and sleep approach and focused attention blurs, mental scrutiny fades. The poem offers a concluding, unspoken truth: the coming night and its dream will encompass meanings that speech cannot fully contain.
Read Complete AnalysesNow let the draughtsman of my eyes be done marking the line of petal and of hill. Let the long commentary of the brain be silent. Evening and the earth are one, and bird and tree are simple and stand still. Now, fragile heart swung in your webs of vein, and perilous self won hardly out of clay, gather the harvest of last light, and reap the luminous fields of sunset for your bread. Blurs the laborious focus of the day and shadow brims the hillside slow as sleep. Here is the word that, when all words are said, shall compass more than speech. The sun is gone; draws on the night at last; the dream draws on.
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