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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: DUSK Matches Found: 85 A SONG OF DAWN AT DUSK, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not of sadness, now 'tis dusk Last Line: In the joy above all speaking! Subject(s): Dusk A TWILIGHT IN MIDDLE MARCH, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the oak a throb of pigeon wings Last Line: From little knowledge where great sorrows brood. Subject(s): Dusk; March (month) ADVENTURE WITH SKY, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN Poem Text First Line: Dusk crept out from the woods to the water Last Line: The fawn bent down and sampled sky! Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Sky; Water; Woods APRIL WALK WITH MY DAUGHTER, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: She asks, would you call this twilight or dusk? Last Line: Fresh and temperate, free of blemish Subject(s): April; Daughters; Dusk; Walking AT DUSK, by LUCIUS KING FULLER Poem Text First Line: A stir of kine by the pasture bars Last Line: Wings of lightning beat and shine. Subject(s): Dusk AT DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A something quiet and subdued Last Line: Would it were dusk alway! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Faces; Nightmares AT DUSK, by MADGE D. STAFFORD Poem Text First Line: A lone bird's call Last Line: Deep dusk without a star... Subject(s): Dusk AT TWILIGHT, by PEYTON VAN RENSSELAER Poem Text First Line: The roses of yester-year Last Line: And one that I love is dead. Subject(s): Dusk ATOMIC WEIGHT OF DUSK, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: A richshaw wallah in benares eats tangerine Last Line: Offers you sparks of light in a garland of marigolds Subject(s): Atomic Bomb - Victims; Dusk AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares BY THE CH'EN GATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk as wild geese winged their aery way Last Line: But through me rang the name of kubla khan. Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Dusk; Food & Eating; Tibet; Nightmares CLOSE OF DAY, by WESLEY CURTWRIGHT Poem Source First Line: To meet and then to part,' and that is all Alternate Author Name(s): Curtright, Wesley Subject(s): Dusk COCKTAIL HOUR, by MARGARET E. MCINTYRE Poem Text First Line: Between the dusk and the twilight Last Line: It must be upheld, to get by. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Drinks & Drinking; Dusk; Smoking; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes COMES NOW THE DUSK, by D. SANIAL GILL Poem Text First Line: Comes now the slow, unstayable release Last Line: Should, softly, as the dusk comes, close the breath. Subject(s): Dusk DALI FANTASY, by COUNTESS W. TWITTY Poem Source First Line: Yellow, sickly yellow Subject(s): Dusk DAWN AND DUSK - SAN DIEGO, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Quick as the waking laughter of a child Last Line: Against the night's dark breast. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; San Diego, California; Sunrise DAY'S END IN DURHAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In the abbey at durham, / with its great stony silence Last Line: I wondered, and woke. Subject(s): Durham, England; Dusk; Prayer; Silence; Wisdom DEAD LEAVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though a gipsy maiden with dim look Last Line: Of home intrudes upon our loneliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dusk; Night; Seasons; Fall; Sunrise; Bedtime DUSK, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Again the sun rose and again it set Last Line: And satan stands behind me laughing %the cruel laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by RUTH TAME BURNELL Poem Text First Line: Dusk, and the night shades falling Last Line: Those beautiful memories of you. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As flowers at dusk their choicest perfumes hold Last Line: Like seaweed from a cliff into white foam. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It is the hour when the son comes in Last Line: Who sees only a void in the depths of the heavens Subject(s): Dusk; Fathers And Sons; Heaven DUSK, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twin stars through my purpling pane Last Line: And the dusk. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dusk DUSK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk over the lake Last Line: That I shatter the moon with an oar. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Dusk; Separation; Isolation DUSK, by GEORGE KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: There is only one woman left in the world Last Line: That sinks into layers of water ferns thirst for Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: The sun has set. The sky is aglow Last Line: A quivering mass of the black gel, night. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Dusk; Sky; Sun DUSK, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND Poem Text First Line: She goes / a hushful, peaceful thing Last Line: As she—soft light—melts into night. Subject(s): Dusk; Love DUSK, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress Last Line: Into the vast of god. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dusk; God; Nature - Religious Aspects DUSK, by TONY SANDERS Poem Source First Line: Nothing that I did, or said Last Line: O even the best parks grow dark Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: The evening hour of love's brief happy day Last Line: And dies out with the day's last golden glow. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes on quiet indian feet Last Line: And capture him. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bats are busy in moonless eve Last Line: The wanderer, night, comes to the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dusk DUSK AT SEA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: Tonight eternity alone is near Last Line: Sealed by the sunset and the evening star. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK AT SEA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, like a moth of violet wing, descends Last Line: Both light and guide on the long journey home. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Ocean DUSK FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a moment between day and night Last Line: When magic lives in light. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK IN THE LOW COUNTRY, by DUBOSE HEYWARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A league of broomgrass, rose and mauve and Subject(s): Dusk DUSK ON ENGLISH BAY, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lighting rooms perfect a chequerboard Last Line: Any clutch of ours can hold this precious night. Subject(s): Dusk; England; English DUSK, SCIRCLEVILLE, by MARTIN WALLS Poem Source First Line: Dust enters the coppice Last Line: The hard life patiently grows quiet in the cottages Subject(s): Dusk; Shadows DUSK-MEMORIES, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: O dusk, be not so sweet! Last Line: Of this dusk, clinging, warm. Subject(s): Dusk DUSK: ASSUAN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene, he mounts the minaret of day Last Line: But faithful come those worshipers, the stars. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Silence EAT, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was always dusk Last Line: Eat, I wishper into his ear Subject(s): Dusk; Food And Eating; Survival EVENING TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the wan sea-strand Last Line: Smiling and lit by the moon. Subject(s): Dusk EVENSONG, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Twilight is drooping like a veil Last Line: Earth, too, is dreaming of some untold tale. Subject(s): Dusk HEIRS OF TWILIGHT, by HELENE M. BUTEAU Poem Text First Line: It's the unheard beat of pulsing earth Last Line: Who star the dusk with tears he wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Shock, Buteau Subject(s): Dusk; Evening; Sunset; Twilight IF I SHOULD WAKE, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should wake, on some soft, silent night Last Line: Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE DUSK, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day hangs its light between two dusks, my heart Last Line: Tho' only one should listen how it sings. Subject(s): Dusk IN THE GLOAMING, by JAMES C. BAYLES Poem Source First Line: The twilight twiles in the vernal vale Subject(s): Dusk JANUARY DUSK, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Austere and clad in sombre robes of grey Last Line: And all the coloured retinue of spring. Subject(s): Dusk; January LIMITLESS OUT OF THE DUSK, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: There are lightly moving rivers Last Line: Of the world come home. Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Rivers; Nightmares LITTLE TOWNS AT DUSK, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: The cottage lamps are gleaming Subject(s): Dusk; Farm Life LO-YU TOMBS, by LI SHANG-YIN Poem Source First Line: Toward evening, Last Line: Near the yellow dusk Subject(s): Dusk; Night NOCTURNE, by RUTH E. BILLEY Poem Text First Line: Over wide meadows away from the town Last Line: Watch the lost shadows of winter take wing. Subject(s): Dusk OCTOBER TWILIGHT, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellowed leaves are quiet, dusk is here Last Line: Shipwrecked upon october's tawny shore. Subject(s): Dusk; October OLD GRANNY DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old granny dusk, when the sun Last Line: Er kisses the face you're a-bendin' down. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Dusk; Katydids ORGAN SONGS: ANTIPHON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daylight fades away Last Line: Dwelleth in his men. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; God; Night; Sunrise; Bedtime SCENE AT DUSK, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On our way to the city of the singing street Last Line: Shed by an april evening upon lovely hair. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Hope; Love; Optimism SEVEN P.M, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow twilight bird Last Line: Gentle, wild voices from the dark aloft. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven, you say, will be a field in april Last Line: Flower in the heart with the fragrance we call grief. Subject(s): Dusk; Heaven; Paradise SITTING AT DUSK IN THE BACK YARD AFTER THE MONDRIAN RETROSPECTIVE, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Form imposes, structure allows -- the slow destruction of form Last Line: Black lines and white spaces, an emptiness primed with reds and blues Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Dusk; Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944); Paintings And Painters SONG OF TWILIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, to come home once more, when the dusk is falling Subject(s): Dusk; Mothers SWEET BLOOMS AT DUSK, by JAMES H. DEVLIN Poem Text First Line: Oft wet with tears on haloed ground Last Line: Forgotten soon and death its goal. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOUR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark, thick branch in the last light is like Last Line: Go fireflies striking their soft, yellow lights. Subject(s): Activity; Dusk; Escapes; Evening; Hope; Exercise; Fugitives; Sunset; Twilight; Optimism THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 4. THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roofs of wool row are charcoal Last Line: I don't listen, I don't listen. Subject(s): Bells; Children; Dusk; Farewell; Relationships; Childhood; Parting THE UNKNOWN WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day darkens Last Line: When the dew is falling? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dusk; Knowledge; Silence; Wind THROUGH THE DARK, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk's orisons / are sable swans Last Line: It is morn. Subject(s): Dusk; Night; Shadows; Bedtime TO ANNIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the lids of dusk are falling Last Line: As tranquil a delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Dusk; Night; Whipporwills; Bedtime TWILIGHT, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was lingering in the pale northwest Last Line: From the ancient hour of prime! Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat at the hut of the fisher Last Line: Swiftly the darkness fell. Subject(s): Disasters; Dusk; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Storms; Seamen; Sails TWILIGHT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight is sad and cloudy Last Line: Drive the colour from her cheek? Subject(s): Absence; Children; Dusk; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Childhood; Ocean TWILIGHT, by MARGARET RYAN Poem Source First Line: Far on the moor some wild bird screams Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft the dove-hued shadows mingle Last Line: In the dreaming universe. Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dove-colored, the shadows melt and mingle Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour! Last Line: As the beginning of the heavens and earth! Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT AT SEA, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight hours, like birds, flew by Last Line: And held it trembling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Stars; Ocean TWILIGHT AT THE HEIGHTS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The brave young city by the balboa seas Last Line: Set head and foot to the day at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Variant Title(s): Twilight At The Hights Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT CALM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh pleasant eventide Last Line: The quiet sands have run. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT ON TWEED, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Three crests against the saffron sky Last Line: You tell me that the voice is still %that should have welcomed me Subject(s): Dusk TWILIGHT SONG, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the shine, through the rain Last Line: Through the shine, through the rain. Subject(s): Dusk TWO SONGS, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Through the long dusk my spirit sings Last Line: Or day or night be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Dusk; Forests; Singing & Singers; Sun; Woods; Songs VESTAL, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Child of november, you were born to death Last Line: See, child, there is no fear when flame's within. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dusk; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The WHY DID YOU DEPART AT DUSK?, by CLARISSA M. BAILEY Poem Text First Line: On your last journey, why did you set out at dusk? Last Line: Of earth? -- for, unafraid, at dusk you went away. Subject(s): Dawn; Dusk; Travel; Sunrise; Journeys; Trips WINTER DUSK, by ANDRE-FERDINAND HEROLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the earth the snow is falling Last Line: And the snow and the twilight are falling. Subject(s): Dusk; Snow; Winter WINTER DUSK, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prospect is bare and white Last Line: And wiggles its silver tail. Subject(s): Dusk; Sea; Winter; Ocean WINTER NIGHTFALL, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The day begins to droop Last Line: Of darkness and tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Dusk; Winter YOU LOOK OUTSIDE, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source Last Line: Upside down with their lights on Subject(s): Dusk |
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