Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWILIGHT STORIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither daylight, starlight Last Line: Drift about like flakes of starlight. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Story-telling; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight | ||||||||
NEITHER daylight, starlight, moonlight But a sad-sweet term of some light By the saintly name of Twilight. The Grandma Twilight Stories! -- Still, A childish listener, I hear The katydid and whippoorwill, In deepening atmosphere Of velvet dusk, blent with the low Soft music of the voice that sings And tells me tales of long ago And old enchanted things. . . . While far fails the last dim daylight, And the fireflies in the Twilight Drift about like flakes of starlight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK by DENISE LEVERTOV THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1 by CONRAD AIKEN TWILIGHT COMES by HAYDEN CARRUTH IN THE EVENINGS by LUCILLE CLIFTON NINETEEN FORTY by NORMAN DUBIE A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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