Arts & Sciences

Criticism

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935

From In This Our World (1893; 5th ed. 1914)

Arts & Sciences

The Critic eyed the sunset as the umber turned to gray,
Slow fading in the somewhat foggy west;
To the color-cultured Critic ’twas a very dull display,
“’Tis n’t half so good a sunset as was offered yesterday!
I wonder why,” he murmured, as he sadly turned away,
“The sunsets can’t be always at their best!”

MLA

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Chicago

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