Sunset Serenade

There is nothing, and I mean nothing like a sunset at the lake on a balmy summer evening. The proof is in the picture (yes, I shot it myself). I couldn't post it until I found the perfect line of verse to parallel the mood at the time I shot it, and finally, inside a new-to-me volume of Sara Teasdale's poetry --she's my favorite!--there it was: "Spring Night." While the title may not seem apropos given we're in summer here, trust me, she's completely channeled the vibe.

"The park is filled with night and fog,

The veils are drawn about the world,
The drowsy lights along the paths
Are dim and pearled.

Gold and gleaming the empty streets,
Gold and gleaming the misty lake,
The mirrored lights like sunken swords,
Glimmer and shake.

Oh, is it not enough to be
Here with this beauty over me?
My throat should ache with praise, and I
Should kneel in joy beneath the sky.
O, Beauty are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love,
With youth, a singing voice and eyes
To take earth's wonder with surprise?
Why have I put off my pride,
Why am I unsatisfied,---
I for whom the pensive night
Binds her cloudy hair with light,---
I, for whom all beauty burns
Like incense in a million urns?
O, beauty are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?"
-- "Spring Night" by Sara Teasdale