Robert Seymour Bridges (1844–1930) British writer
The Evening Darkens Over http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bridges1.html, st. 1. <br class="br">Poetry
“I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.”
Source: September 1, 1939 (1939), Lines 1–11
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