Time & Brevity

The Dark Hills

by Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935

From The Three Taverns (1920)

Time & Brevity

Dark hills at evening in the west,
Where sunset hovers like a sound
Of golden horns that sang to rest
Old bones of warriors under ground,
Far now from all the bannered ways
Where flash the legions of the sun,
You fade -- as if the last of days
Were fading, and all wars were done.

MLA

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “The Dark Hills.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/87/.

Chicago

Robinson, Edwin Arlington. “The Dark Hills.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/robinson_ea/87/.

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