PagineSummer Evening
by Walter de la Mare
From Peacock Pie (1913)
The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.
This poem is in the public domain. Source text: Project Gutenberg.