Good Evening

The sunset on the point during the golden hour is my favorite time & place to be.

The city by the sea - by Edgar Allen Poe

“…Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best

Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers and tremble not!),

Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie.

No rays from the holy Heaven come down On the long night-time of that town;

But light from out the lurid sea

Streams up the turrets silently—

Gleams up the pinnacles far and free— Up domes—up spires—up kingly halls— Up fanes—up Babylon-like walls—

Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers

Of sculptured ivy and stone flowers— Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky

The melancholy waters lie.

So blend the turrets and shadows there

While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.

There open fanes and gaping graves Yawn level with the luminous waves; But not the riches there that lie

In each idol’s diamond eye—

Not the gaily-jewelled dead

Tempt the waters from their bed;

For no ripples curl, alas!

Along that wilderness of glass—

No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea—

No heavings hint that winds have been…”

https://poets.org/poem/city-sea

It is one of Poe’s darker poems but there’s kind of an exquisite beauty in his words… -Filey