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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: TWILIGHT Matches Found: 409 A COROT IN NATURE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset sky burns deep and red beyond Last Line: That such dear pathos maketh almost glad? Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Happiness; Nature; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A DUMP HEAD, by RUTH MOOERS Poem Text First Line: A dump heap burning at sunset Last Line: The refuse of another day. Subject(s): Evening; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Smoke; Sunset; Twilight A FOREST SUNSET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a glorious and resplendent eve Last Line: Of wilding-boughs was pleasant to behold. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SKETCH IN COLORS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked along the road as night came down Last Line: Into one strong red line which rimmed the hill. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SOUTHERN TWILIGHT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little shallow silver urn Last Line: To us than eloquence or art. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sunset; Twilight A SUMMER EVENING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How fine has the day been! How bright was the sun! Last Line: Of rising in brighter array. Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the mountain's edge all lightly resting Last Line: And deep the cavern of the fountain mutters. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the evenings, passionless and fair Last Line: Fantasy them with starry brede. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond horizon's bar in twilight splendid Last Line: The mood of faith, of courage, and of reverence. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Faith; Nature; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Belief; Creed A SUNSET, by ROBERT LOVEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, departing, kissed the summer sky Last Line: And, lo! Her blushes crimson all the west. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What means it, lord? No, daniel Last Line: The majesty of day? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the gold-embroidered west Last Line: Speeding the day's white soul. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET AT LES EBOULEMENTS, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad shadows fall. On all the mountain side Last Line: And the long line of golden villages. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET BREEZE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All of the livelong day there was scarcely a rustle of leaves Last Line: And lo, as the mother knelt, the baby smiled in its sleep! Subject(s): Evening; Heat; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just at sunset, I would be Last Line: Those window-roses, love,...No more. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A SUNSET IN SUSSEX, by LEONARD HARMON ROBBINS Poem Text First Line: The winds blow soft across the hill Last Line: Broods o'er it like the sunset glow. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight A TWILIGHT FANCY, by DORA READ GOODALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit here and the earth is wrapped in snow Last Line: That come to us when winter evenings come. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight A TWILIGHT MUSING, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Ye who in this vain life Last Line: Lighten and cheer? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Life; Music & Musicians; Tears; World; Sunset; Twilight A TWILIGHT REVERIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fire in the west burns low Last Line: To bear me away on the morning light Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight A TWILIGHT SONG, by EDWARD MASLIN HULME Poem Text First Line: When swallows fly Last Line: To me again. Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight A VENETIAN SUNSET: BEFORE A CHANGE (RETURNING FROM TORCELLO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In violet hues each dome and spire Last Line: Fan-like, from venice to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Venice, Italy; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A WALK AT SUNSET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When insect wings are glistening in the beam Last Line: Darkened by boundless groves, and roamed by savage men. Subject(s): Nature; Evening; Transience; Sunset; Twilight; Impermanence A WINTER SUNSET, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wonderful glory of color Last Line: Will guerdon thy trusting heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight A WINTER TWILIGHT, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silence slipping around like death Last Line: One star that I loved ere the fields went brown. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Evening; Sunset; Twilight A WINTER TWILIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-shotten through the bleak gigantic trees Last Line: As each, alternate, nears or leaves the strand. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight ADIRONDACK EVENING, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Behind the olive hills, the day fires wane Last Line: The peace we left, and whither we return. Subject(s): Adirondack Mountains, New York; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AFTER SUNSET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast and solemn company of clouds Last Line: Drops in the shadowy gulf of bygone things. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Past; Silence; Time; Sunset; Twilight AFTER SUNSET, by GRACE HAZARD CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have an understanding with the hills Last Line: And terror shall be past, and grief, and war. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AFTER SUNSET - LAKE WEELOKENEBAKOK, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At twilight azescohos standeth Last Line: Shall be for us color and music? Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds AFTER TENIERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet curve of sombre brown water Last Line: In the deep'ning gloom of the evening time. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Peasantry; Wine; Sunset; Twilight AMORIS EXSUL: 8. TWILIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pale grey sea crawls stealthily Last Line: And folds its arms about the town. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AN ABALONE SHELL, by GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE Poem Text First Line: The sun went down in fog tonight Last Line: I hold the sunset in my hand. Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Sunset; Twilight AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN ATTEMPT AT A CITY SUNSET, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a quiet glory in the sky Last Line: That sigh upon the traffic all day long. Subject(s): Evening; Muses; Sunset; Twilight AN AUGUST SUNSET, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a glory in the west Last Line: Than in the first flush of its power. Subject(s): August; Beauty; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AN AUTUMNAL EVENING, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep black against the dying glow Last Line: Great dusky moths go flitting by. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Autumn; Elm Trees; Evening; Seasons; Fall; Sunset; Twilight AN EASTERN EVENING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening comes on: arising from the stream Last Line: Like thunder far away. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sunset's mounded cloud Last Line: Sweet love dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The clouds were heaped like an evil dream Last Line: May still remain to us Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight AN EVENING HYMN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Never yet could careless sleep Last Line: Whilst thou deignst to watch for me. Subject(s): Evening; Worship; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING REVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day is closed - the sun is set Last Line: Shall journey onward in perpetual peace. Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING SCENE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here all is joy and all is light Last Line: Knows the whole secret and is blest. Subject(s): Creation; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER Poem Text First Line: O red. Red clouds in the westering sky Last Line: Over to me -- to me. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AN EVENING SONG, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now another day is gone Last Line: Rejoicing in thy love. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight ANOTHER TWILIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far out across the great valley Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight ANTHEM FOR THE EVENING, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! Downy sleep! Come close my eyes Last Line: Like incense or the morning sacrifice. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight APRIL TWILIGHT, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: So beautiful it is, this april dusk Last Line: Where april blossoms out eternally! Subject(s): April; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AS DAY BEGINS TO WANE, by HELENA COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Encompassed by a thousand nameless fears Last Line: Were making ready for a wider flight. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT CLOSE OF DAY, by JON STEFANSSON Poem Text First Line: When sunny hills are draped in velvet shadows Last Line: And pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Gjallandi, Thorgils Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT DIEPPE: 1. AFTER SUNSET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea lies quieted beneath Last Line: Look down upon the sea. Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT SUNDOWN, by FRIEDRIKA HEYL Poem Text First Line: I close my eyes and see them still Last Line: Where little sheep are winding still. Subject(s): Evening; Sheep; Sunset; Twilight AT SUNSET, by BARBARA HALLETT Poem Text First Line: With colors changing on the sea Last Line: To fade away. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AT SUNSET, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes Last Line: Near to a heart that loves and leans to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness AT SUNSET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The robin warbles in the dusk Last Line: And know the glories of thy will. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature; Robins; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness AT SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd meran, supremely fair! Last Line: The past's sweet benison of peace. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Past; Rome, Italy; Sunset; Twilight AT SUNSET TIME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adown the west a golden glow Last Line: And every joy half sad. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight AUGUST SUNSET OVER LAKE CHAMPLAIN, by FRANK A. BALCH Poem Text First Line: A peaceful sun has set beyond north beach Last Line: Nor will permit a screen before our eyes. Subject(s): Evening; Lake Champlain; Sunset; Twilight AUTUMN SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening and the clear sun Last Line: Fair and foolish dreams. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight BATTLE SLEEP, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, o sun, some corner there must be Last Line: And let some soul go seaward with that sail! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; World War I; Sunset; Twilight; First World War BEFORE SUNSET (1), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the lower lands of day Last Line: Lord as time was over death. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Love; Sunset; Twilight BEFORE SUNSET (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's twilight wanes in heaven above Last Line: Love's twilight wanes. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Roundels; Sunset; Twilight BEFORE THE END OF DAY, by WINNIFRED HOLLOWAY Poem Text First Line: The brief, drab interval between Last Line: Of rose and blue and white . . . Subject(s): Evening; Seasons; Trees; Sunset; Twilight BORDERLANDS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the evening Last Line: O hidden, o perfect, o desired! O first and final fair! Subject(s): Evening; Fear; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight BY TWILIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we dream that desire of the distance above us Last Line: If we dream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Evening; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight CAPE COTTAGE AT SUNSET, by WILLIAM BELCHER GLAZIER Poem Text First Line: We stood upon the ragged rocks Last Line: Nor fix that radiance in the west. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight CHOICE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperious time, I must prefer Last Line: Auroral creeds embrace. Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Night; Sky; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime CITY AT TWILIGHT, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: The swinging bells engrave in sunset golds Last Line: Faintly, the music of milleniums ...... Subject(s): Cities; Evening; Urban Life; Sunset; Twilight COMING UP OXFORD STREET: EVENING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun from the west glares back Last Line: Empty of interest in things, and wondering why he was born. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight COMMUTATION TO HEAVEN, by ANN STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the magic hour of twilight / day merges Last Line: At last -- to night's enveloping embrace! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight CONTENTMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended Last Line: Is all I ask. Subject(s): Contentment; Evening; Life; Love; Pity; Sunset; Twilight CONVOCATION AT EVENING, by MABEL POSEGATE Poem Text First Line: The vividness of the redbud is fading Last Line: Of the shadows, the apple snow, an obvious nest and a first star. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean DARTMOOR: SUNSET AT CHAGFORD: HOMO LOQVITUR, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ironical, a fool enigma Last Line: Nor even dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Mankind; Surgery; Sunset; Twilight; Human Race DAWN OF EVENING, by CARRIE MAY NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: A lone, bright evening star Last Line: "to comfort and to please." Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight DAY AND NIGHT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight is falling on lake and on land Last Line: One added night, . . . To so many their last! Subject(s): Evening; Life; Peace; Silence; Sunset; Twilight DAY: EVENING, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the heath the heifer strays Last Line: Bid the setting sun adieu. Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nature; Sunset; Twilight DAYLIGHT IS DYING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daylight is dying Last Line: You some echo of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Evening; Singing & Singers; Stars; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight DESERT SUNSET, by BLANCHE W. PORTER Poem Text First Line: Upon the silence of the desert land Last Line: For us -- alone -- upon the desert swell. Subject(s): Deserts; Evening; Food & Eating; Sunset; Twilight DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silver flash from the sinking sun Last Line: Queen night, on velvet slippered feet, comes softly down. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime DUSK; TO MADEMOISELLE MARIE LAURENCIN, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brushed by the shadows of the dead Last Line: Of harlequin the trismegist Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Clowns; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EARLY EVENING IN APRIL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A drift of fragrance down a lane of spring Last Line: Wistful and delicate and debonair. Subject(s): April; Evening; Mountains; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America ELSWITHA, by MARY BARRY Poem Text First Line: Elswitha knitteth the stocking blue Last Line: Not a dream -- but a prophecy. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight END OF DAY, by MARGARET MARY LEE Poem Text First Line: This is the time I like best of all Last Line: The end of a cumbersome day? Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight END OF DAY, by FRANCISCA MANLOPIZ Poem Text First Line: Evening... Like the mournful wail of the willow Last Line: Evening...The great healer. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight ETCHINGS: 3. TWILIT RIVERS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little rivers at twilight Last Line: Falls silent in the fold. Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight EVEN THE BATS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the june twilight, we looked without knowing why Last Line: Where shadows leave the breast and fly away. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Evening; June; Sunset; Twilight EVEN-SONG, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the west is warm, and now Last Line: Welcome are the wings of love! Subject(s): Aging; Evening; Love; Youth; Sunset; Twilight EVENEN IN THE VILLAGE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the light o' the west is a-turn'd to gloom Last Line: Wi' his pipe an' his cider can. Subject(s): Evening; Spring; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ALCMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain summits sleep: glens, cliffs, and caves Last Line: Each bird is hushed that strech'd its pinions to the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkman Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ISABELLA LOCKHART ALDERMAN Poem Text First Line: A gray cloud, etched against the sky Last Line: As it sinks to rest. And day is done. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chimneys, rank on rank Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING, by SYLVIA HORTENSE BLISS Poem Text First Line: Now with the dusk the world comes home to me Last Line: When with the dusk the world comes home to me. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already evening! In the duskiest nook Last Line: "the white rose, whispering ""he will come to-night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by TILLIE BURCH Poem Text First Line: It is evening time, and don juan pacheco Last Line: And now over all gleams the bright evening star. Subject(s): Chicanos; Evening; Mexican Americans; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate! If e'er thy light foot lingers Last Line: On returning home, thy boots. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day's grown old, the fainting sun Last Line: Shall lead the world the way to rest. Variant Title(s): Evening Quatrains Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly now the light of day Last Line: Jesus, look with pitying eye. Variant Title(s): Evening Hymn;evening Contemplation Subject(s): Evening; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Theology EVENING, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light passes Last Line: And leaf-shadow are lost. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by IDUNA BERTEL FIELD Poem Text First Line: Dreamy, poising dragonflies Last Line: Known once, in a dream. Subject(s): Dragonflies; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: From day's fair face the smile is gone Last Line: And lo, a jewelled coverlet o'er her they spread! Subject(s): Beds; Evening; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er every mountain height Last Line: Thou too, shalt rest. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by GEORG HEYM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crimsoned day is steeped in tyrian dyes Last Line: Tall night, on shadowy buskins, mutely stands. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From upland slopes I see the cows file by Last Line: Shine out the stars, and the great night comes on. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by MALCOLM MERRITT Poem Text First Line: As leaves go down to autumn Last Line: From the peace of midian. Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the white iris folds the drowsing bee Last Line: Give me to day no more. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by EDWARD POLLOCK Poem Text First Line: The air is chill, and the day grows late Last Line: While the clouds come in through the golden gate. Subject(s): Evening; San Francisco; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen and we shall hear the voice Last Line: I whisper it through your grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening's angel passes where flowers glow.. Last Line: An angel gathers this sad dream of thine. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, hesper, bringest homeward all Last Line: The children to their mother's side. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Love - Erotic; Evening; Love; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou bright sun! Beneath the dark blue line Last Line: Pick flaws in our close-woven happiness. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Soothing hour, when glowing day Last Line: What tears will fall, but those of heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus having said, the pious sufferer sate Last Line: Falling on vernal herbs which thirst for rain. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING, by JON STEFANSSON Poem Text First Line: At twilight, when I am alone with my thoughts Last Line: The sun over darkness prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Gjallandi, Thorgils Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness EVENING, by MELVILLE UPTON Poem Text First Line: Still is the pool, the evening still Last Line: Splashing its colors on the flood. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING (2), by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cricket sang, / and set the sun, / and workmen finished, o Last Line: And so the night became. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1104 Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING CLOUDS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The hour has made transparent mountains of ruddy cloud. Upon Last Line: Grain are bowed in slumber, and the broad moon awakes. Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING HYMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of the evening hours Last Line: O give us now repose! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology EVENING IN A SUGAR ORCHARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where I lingered in a lull of march Last Line: And that was what the boughs were full of soon. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING ON LAKE COMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside my garden's ivied wall Last Line: The dreams of youth come back to me. Subject(s): Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Lakes; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds EVENING ON THE BROADS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over two shadowless waters, adrift as a pinnace in peril Last Line: Ghost or god, evermore moves on the face of the deep. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean EVENING ON THE HARBOUR, by VIRGINIA LYNE TUNSTALL Poem Text First Line: The shining daggers of the harbour lights Last Line: Is bound about with ribbons of pale stars. Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight EVENING SLIPPERS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When down the marble steps girls ran tonight Last Line: Shoe butterflies by shining music chased. Subject(s): Evening; Girls; Shoes; Sunset; Twilight; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers EVENING SOLACE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The human heart has hidden treasures Last Line: Seeking a life and world to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness EVENING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Evening now is closing Last Line: From my god alone Subject(s): Evening;rest;sleep; Sunset;twilight EVENING SONG OF THE WEARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father of heaven and earth Last Line: The soft, still, holy night. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING TRAINS, by MARY TRUE AYER Poem Text First Line: Through shadowy trees in brilliant flight Last Line: Weird torches flaming, racing there. Subject(s): Evening; Railroads; Trees; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains EVENING VOLUNTARY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Had this effulgence disappeared Last Line: And night approaches with her shades. Variant Title(s): Composed Upon An Evening Of Extraordinary Splendor [and Beauty];ode. An Evening Of Extraordinary Splendor And Beauty;ode: Composed Upon Evening Of Extraordinary Splendour/beauty Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING. GERTRUDE, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: In clouds drew on the evening's close Last Line: "but in the virtues of the feeling mind." Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENING: AN ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo now, sol's carman, drives his stud Last Line: I, blessed with learning, takes a pen and writes. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Apollo; Evening; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Sunset; Twilight EVENING: PONTE A MARE, PISA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is set; the swallows are asleep Last Line: Which the keen evening star is shining through. Subject(s): Evening; Pisa, Italy; Sunset; Twilight EVENINGS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is rest full of light, neither fever nor languor, on the bed or on the road Last Line: -and the dream breaks afresh. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENSONG, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eastward the valley of my soul was lit Last Line: Of dawn that shall be day. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENTIDE, by THOMAS BURBIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Comes something down with eventide Last Line: I to these fields return'd. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EVENTIMES, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: The hamlets die in the long eventimes Last Line: As soft as souls of agéd crones out-worn. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight EXCLUSIONS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across my thoughts the old wash of the sea Last Line: (I think there are yet things to be said of god.) Subject(s): Beauty; Bells; Evening; God; Thought; Sunset; Twilight; Thinking FALSE MORNING, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low in the west the pitiless sun dies Last Line: The long hours when the night and I were mute! Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Evening; Morning; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime FAR FLIGHT, by JESSIE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My hand upon the wheel, I rode Last Line: My hand still on the wheel! When comes the dawn? Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Memory; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight FEBRUARY EVENING IN NEW YORK, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the stores close, a winter light Subject(s): New York City; Evening; Winter; Aging; Conduct Of Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sunset; Twilight FURNESS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my low window I behold Last Line: On wood and hill and waterway. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Gold; Roses; Sunset; Twilight GEORGIA TWILIGHT, by ALICE EVANS MCKEE Poem Text First Line: The soft grey twilight falls; the lamps are lit Last Line: To hear again the sweetest story told. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight GLAMOUR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it in the misty twilight, or Last Line: My fancy, slowly slipping earthly anchor, sailed away? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Evening; Love; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight GLION - EVENING, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From glion when the sun declines Last Line: Graved by the poet gautier Subject(s): Evening; Glion, Switzerland; Sunset; Twilight GLORY, by HELEN D. GREENWOOD Poem Text First Line: Glorious sunset Last Line: Heaven -- is glorious! Subject(s): Evening; God; Heaven; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise GOLDEN SUNSET, by RUBEN T. NYGREN Poem Text First Line: There's the hour of golden sunset Last Line: At the close of life's short days. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight GOOD HOURS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had for my winter evening walk Last Line: At ten o'clock of a winter eve. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Walking; Sunset; Twilight GRACE BEFORE MEALS: EVENING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Evening shades are falling Last Line: Pray we may be thine in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Evening; Prayer; Sunset; Twilight GRECIAN SUNSET, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In perfect kingliness now reigns the sun Last Line: Of a victorious rest, he passes all alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Evening; Greece; Sunset; Twilight; Greeks GROWING OLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it parting with the roundness Last Line: Walk, by way of growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Old Age; Sunset; Twilight HE WHO WAITS AT TWILIGHT, by LILLIAN CRANE HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Did you ever sit at twilight Last Line: Is blessed beyond repay. Subject(s): Blessings; Evening; Home; Sunset; Twilight HEIR, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This gray board fence turns blue in the evening light Subject(s): Nature; Colors; Evening; Sunset; Twilight 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 HIGH TIDE, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE Poem Text First Line: Twilight deepened and one by one Last Line: Till the frightened tide turned to flee. Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Ocean HIGHLAND EVENING SONG, by WILLIAM LAWRENCE CHITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: Twilight blushing o'er the hillside Last Line: Shall remember us no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Chittenden, Larry Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight HOME-COMING, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I stepped homeward to my hill Last Line: The moon's slow wonder with her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight HOW DEAR TO ME THE HOUR, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to me the hour when daylight dies Last Line: And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight HOW GOLDEN BRIGHT FROM EARTH AND HEAVEN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Summer; Evening; Sunset; Twilight HUSH OF TWILIGHT, by G. KENYON ASHENDEN Poem Text First Line: After the sun goes down Last Line: All destiny is cast. Subject(s): Day; Evening; Light; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime HYMNS OF A DAY: NIGHTFALL, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly has the night descended Last Line: Rise, to share his life forever! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight I LOVE..., by HOPE RIDINGS MILLER Poem Text First Line: Slow drifts of haze that veil the hills Last Line: And hours that I have spent with you. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean IDENTITY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere - in desolate windswept space Last Line: "I only died last night!" Subject(s): Twilight Zone IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight IN HAITI: 1. SUNSET AT DESCHAPELLES, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the houses of american engineers Last Line: Red ants gather on a lizard's eye. Subject(s): Evening; Haiti; Sunset; Twilight IN LAMPLIGHT, by MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Now that the chill october day is declining Last Line: Eyes grow dim, the book on your lap unheeded. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight IN PRAISE OF DECEMBER EVENINGS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow on the waning landscape creeps the night Last Line: Are all, are only, thine! Subject(s): December; Evening; Sunset; Twilight IN THE BAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Last Line: No sunrise and no sunset marks their day. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Seashore; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore IN THE EVENING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the evening of our days Last Line: In the evening of our days. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Evening; Kisses; Marriage; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN THE EVENINGS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go through my rooms Last Line: Like a ghost Subject(s): Cold; Evening; Ghosts; Poverty; Supernatural; Winter; Sunset; Twilight IN THE GRAY OF THE EVENING; AUTUMN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er yon forest solitudes Last Line: Secrets almost ineffable! Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Fall; Sunset; Twilight INVOCATION TO EVENING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O evening, steal into the silent city Last Line: And slowly bow your dark hair over him. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight IT WILL BE LIGHT THIS EVENING, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will be light this evening, the days grow long Last Line: We shall not have our spirit of this night. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Evening; Peace; Sunset; Twilight JOURNEY INTO THE EYE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having no choice but to go down, the sun Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Fish & Fishing; Sunset; Twilight; Anglers KATHLEEN O'DARE, by DOROTHY B. YOST Poem Text First Line: The evening shades are falling within the orchard grove Last Line: While the shadows gather in the sky. Subject(s): Evening; Orchards; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight LET EVENING COME, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let the light of late afternoon Last Line: Comfortless, so let evening come Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight LIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Light is the life of all my thoughts Last Line: At twilight, in the woods, I gather marguerites. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Light; Rest; Sunset; Twilight LIGHT AT EVENTIDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lord, thy good and precious book seems written all for me Last Line: So it is light at evening time, and soon it will be day. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Sunset; Twilight LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells Last Line: Lights through the mist! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism LONDON EVENING, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city is like a vague dream-tapestry Last Line: Watching my sorrow find in night relief. Subject(s): Evening; London; Sunset; Twilight LOOKING WESTWARD, by JOHN GRAY DUNCAN Poem Text First Line: Evening's shadowed eyes Last Line: And calls them all still onward to the west. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight LOVE AT EVENING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the hour of moonlight, and the bells Last Line: Steal silently unto their hallowed rest. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Sunset; Twilight LOWLINESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At purple twilight when the snow lies deep Last Line: Near foddered kine and faithfully folded sheep. Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Memory; Sunset; Twilight LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 2. THE CANYON, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The sky withdraws, the cutting narrows Last Line: Plunges the train at set of sun. Subject(s): Canyons; Evening; Men; Railroads; Sunset; Twilight; Railways; Trains MASSACHUSETTS, by FLORENCE VAN FLEET LYMAN Poem Text First Line: I now recall how very dear Last Line: No other light -- however far. Subject(s): Evening; Light; Sky; Stars; Sunset; Twilight MIDWINTER SUNSET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds blown together, like ragged whorls of smoke Last Line: A frightened squirrel scurries off in dismay. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight MOON ON THE SEA, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dim twilight dreams Last Line: Pale moon! Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean MUSIC AT TWILIGHT, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, give me music in the twilight hour! Last Line: And mystery divine. Subject(s): Evening; Music & Musicians; Sunset; Twilight MY CIGARETTE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cigarette! The amulet Last Line: And nought is left me but the ashes. Subject(s): Evening; Fire; Smoking; Sunset; Twilight; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY FORMER LIFE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under vast colonnades that took the noon's Last Line: Athwart my brow with wafture of green palms. Subject(s): Evening; Moon; Sun; Sunset; Twilight MYSTCIAL EVENING TWILIGHT, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Last Line: Memory, with the twilight's dusky light Subject(s): Evening; Memory; Sunset; Twilight NEVER AGAIN THE SAME, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Speaking of sunsets Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: THE FIELDS AT EVENING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew-light lingers yet Subject(s): Fields; Evening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Sunset; Twilight NIGHTFALL, by GAILEEN GREENLEE Poem Text First Line: When twilight shadows softly fall Last Line: Nightfall. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight NINETEEN FORTY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun just drops down through the poplars Last Line: Individual wild ducks scraped and screamed in along a marsh. Subject(s): England; Evening; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); World War Ii; Writing & Writers; English; Sunset; Twilight; Second World War NURSE'S SONG, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the voices of children are heard on the green / and laughing is heard Last Line: And all the hills ecchoed Variant Title(s): Play Time Subject(s): Bible; Children; Evening; Innocence; Mythology; Play; Time; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight OCTOBER EVENING, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: A tremor slides from the hill-slopes down to the plains Last Line: Whirls and falls on paths that no feet tread. Subject(s): Evening; October; Sunset; Twilight ODE TO EVENING, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song Last Line: And hymn thy favorite name! Variant Title(s): To Evening;evening Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight OH HEART BE GLAD, by LILLIE REED ZORTMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh heart, be glad, be strong as one who knows Last Line: Oh heart be glad! Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Hearts; June; Sunset; Twilight ON THE SETTING SUN (PRESERVED BY HIS SCHOOLMASTER), by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those evening clouds, that setting ray Last Line: Who tinged these clouds with gold! Subject(s): Evening; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Theology ORGAN SONGS: EVENING HYMN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, whose daylight leadeth down Last Line: Go wandering toward thee. Subject(s): Evening; Forgiveness; God; Prayer; Sunset; Twilight; Clemency PANORAMA OF A HAPPY EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frogs clear their throats Last Line: Has fallen into the canal. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Evening; Sunset; Twilight PATTERNS IN OUR HEARTS, by KATHRYNE COLE Poem Text First Line: Purple evenings and gray dawns Last Line: Traced their patterns in our hearts. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight PENETRALIA, by ELFRIDA DE RENNE BARROW Poem Text First Line: Blurred formations Last Line: Of shadow-stirring twilights. Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 2. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing ruddy sun descends Last Line: I sorrow no longer. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Moon; Stars; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 2: 4. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauteous sun Last Line: "and a face all wither'd and dry." Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean PIOUS EVENINGS, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To farthest off the sun at setting sheds Last Line: Of which we cannot see the towering stem. Subject(s): Calm; Evening; Silence; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sunset; Twilight PLACES: 4. EVENING (NAHANT), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an evening when the sky was clear Last Line: Misted with light the meadows of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): Twilight (nahant) Subject(s): Evening; Landscape; Nahant, Massachusetts; Sunset; Twilight POETIC EPIGRAMS: 17. AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent plebiscite Last Line: "voting, ""let there be night." Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight PORTRAIT OF AN AVERAGE EVENING, by DOROTHY SUMMERROW Poem Text First Line: I tiptoe slowly down this padded stair Last Line: For words are needless when two understand. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight PRAIRIE SKY, by MUNA LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes for days one can forget the sky Last Line: Or sunset blazing for ten thousand miles! Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight PRELUDES: 1-4 (COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The winter evening settles down Last Line: Gathering fuel in vacant lots. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Variant Title(s): Preludes Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight QUATRAIN: SUNSET, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: A siren in the sea unrolled Last Line: The sunlight rested there. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight QUIET, by SALLIE ROSS SANDERS Poem Text First Line: Tan leaves and brown leaves Last Line: It is evening. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight REFUGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight, a timid fawn, went glimmering by Last Line: Knew on the hunter's breast her refuge lay. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Deer; Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight REST, by FRANCES BELLE DELZELL Poem Text First Line: Twilight / and evening star / and night's velvet Last Line: Welcome me. Subject(s): Evening; Night; Rest; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime REST AT EVENING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the weariness of life is ended Last Line: O how poor a day to be so blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Life; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness REST AT EVENTIDE, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fold ye the ice-cold hands Last Line: And sweet is the christian's rest. Subject(s): Evening; Rest; Sunset; Twilight REVERIE AT TWILIGHT, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: The past is shadowy with mist Last Line: And the night is frosted delicately with grief. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness REVERY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim grows the wood; the amber evening tints Last Line: Now tell me, is this heaven, or is it dawn? Subject(s): Bells; Day; Evening; Forests; Stars; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods RONDEL - THE WOOD-THRUSH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In the twilight of the trees Last Line: In the twilight! Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Thrushes; Sunset; Twilight; Woods RURAL EVENING, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whip cracks on the plough-team's flank Last Line: And a fiddle scrambling after. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; Landscape; Sunset; Twilight SAPPHO: 3, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep Last Line: I sing for one who falls asleep to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Sunset; Twilight SEA PICTURES: 2. EVENING, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the thickening twilight presses down Last Line: Wraps in a shroud the dying light. Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean SEDGE SONGS: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the west the sun departing Last Line: Trembles soft yon evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Absence; Evening; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Sunset; Twilight SEDGE SONGS: 2, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oft at eve I love to saunter Last Line: Sinks into the silent mere. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Storms; Sunset; Twilight SEPTEMBER TWILIGHT, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Your warm italian handclasp Last Line: Over the maple trees. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SERENADE AT SUNSET, by IRENE SUTTON Poem Text First Line: The boundaries of the world fall flat Last Line: When the time comes Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SHOREHAM: TWILIGHT TIME, by SAMUEL PALMER Poem Text First Line: And now the trembling light Last Line: And mark'st when sparrows fall. Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; God; Time; World; Sunset; Twilight SIGNALS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet star, the maiden dawn, the sun Last Line: The prophet star again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight SILHOUETTES, by ALICE ROOP Poem Text First Line: The day is done Last Line: Of remaining rays of hope. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light foot and tight foot Last Line: The stars are overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Evening; Grass; Morning; Sunset; Twilight SONG FOR THE EVEN-TIDE, by PAUL T. GILBERT Poem Text First Line: The day is dropping off to sleep Last Line: "and whether he dreams of me!" Subject(s): Evening; Yale University; Sunset; Twilight SONG OF THE EVENING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: How does it reach me, the forest wind that lulls the palms at night? Last Line: What, to me, is the forest wind, in sum, that so many tears I shed? Subject(s): Evening; Forests; Singing & Singers; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Songs SONG OF THE EVENING CLOUD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Mother, o mother, moon my mother Last Line: Brighten us, lighten us, brother and brother! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; Moon; Mothers; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 8. THINGS AT TWILIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is at twilight mostly that things want words Last Line: And as for clouds, who knows so much of passing? Subject(s): Evening; Life; Stars; Trees; Sunset; Twilight SONGS IN SLEEP, by WILLIAM CAREY RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: If I could frame for you in cunning words Last Line: Their inner meaning, though you missed the measure. Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight SONGS OF NEW YORK: A CITY SUNSET, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cross the roof-tops of the town Last Line: Of gladness sped upon its way. Subject(s): Evening; New York City; Sunset; Twilight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONNET, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening, as slow thy placid shades descend Subject(s): Evening; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight SONNET TO TWILIGHT, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meek twilight! Haste to shroud the solar ray [or, soften the declining ray] Last Line: Wakes the soft tear't is luxury to shed. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SONNET: SUNSET, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is setting - not in colours gay Last Line: With that empyreal rapture, which is rest. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SONNET: THE AFTER-GLOW, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a solemn evening, golden clear Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Evening; Love; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 3, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown Last Line: Where shall be then the beauty of the globe? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Evening; World; Sunset; Twilight SONNETS: 7. EVENING, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O soft last hour of evening, when the gold Last Line: On bournes unknown, and far untravelled ways. Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Love; Trees; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight SPANISH EVENING HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave! Now let prayer and music Last Line: Aid! Oh, aid to pray and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight STAR AND CRESCENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air has the late summer Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight STARS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden glow is paling Last Line: And make them glad to-night. Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight STILL THE MOMENT INTENDS TO REPLACE US, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Evening; Loss; Sunset; Twilight STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Whose woods these are I think I know Last Line: And miles to go before I sleep. Subject(s): Duty; Evening; Forests; Religion; Snow; Solitude; Winter; Sunset; Twilight; Woods; Theology; Loneliness SUMMER EVENING, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The torches of the twilight blur Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUMMER EVENING, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A night of june, the stars were bright Last Line: Midnight struck through the lattice-bars. Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight SUMMER MOODS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love at eventide to walk alone Last Line: And see the light fade into gloom around. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Summer; Sunset; Twilight SUNDOWN, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the time lean woods shall spend Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Trees; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: Like some huge bird that sinks to rest Last Line: It lays a scarlet, outstretched wing. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by JOHN W. BURTON Poem Text First Line: With my back to the western sky Last Line: Until the moon is spent. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by HELEN BEAN BYERLY Poem Text First Line: The sky was flecked with clouds in vivid sheen Last Line: Uplifts my drooping heart and makes it bold. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Text First Line: Sickle moon and smouldering star Last Line: Beauty burning in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): Death; Evening; War; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The river sleeps beneath the sky Last Line: And shakes her mantle darkly down. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I gazed into the sky and there Last Line: I saw reflected there. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by MARIE ESTLIN Poem Text First Line: To know the magic spell of skies and sands Last Line: Entranced to linger thus, perchance to dream. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by DOROTHY TALBOTT FOSTER Poem Text First Line: I saw an aeroplane Last Line: Straight into the setting sun! Subject(s): Death; Evening; Flight; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Flying SUNSET, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: While wending home in sunset's golden blaze Last Line: Enchanted lovers wander hand in hand. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by HELEN HOYT (1887-1972) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked at the sky, the sun still shone Last Line: I'll have love from a lesser lover! Alternate Author Name(s): Lyman, W. W., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now Last Line: Who lifts no futile plea for sun, but asks for clouds less grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by PHOEBE DANA KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You have barred my vision, west-wind Last Line: To swirl through the gate of space and gold. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Vision; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer sun is sinking low Last Line: Naught can to-day restore! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The entire western sky is all ablaze Last Line: The ending day of all may plan to bring! Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by ANN RADCLIFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft o'er the mountain's purple brow Last Line: Set to this world—and rise in future day! Alternate Author Name(s): Ward, Ann Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the clear dusk upon the fields below Last Line: I hear the creek laugh out from pebbly ways. Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to sit beneath these walnut-trees Last Line: Homage for which all language is too weak. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Soul; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by MRS. GALE SPINK Poem Text First Line: A daub of red against the blue Last Line: Then silence over all. Subject(s): Evening; Sun; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by ISABEL WHITEHOUSE TOPPIN Poem Text First Line: In the glory and splendor of sunset Last Line: The ship of my dreams sailed away! Subject(s): Evening; Regret; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by RUBY R. WALTON Poem Text First Line: The shafts of gold that light the west Last Line: When someone leaves the gates ajar. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET (2), by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is coming, it is coming Last Line: When the smile of holy peace is left, last witness for their god! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET ACROSS THE LAKE, by AUGUSTA M. BARNEY Poem Text First Line: I sit and watch the sun go down Last Line: And I catch a glimpse of it. Subject(s): Evening; Heaven; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Paradise; Pools; Ponds SUNSET AMID THE BUFFALO MOUNTAINS (N.E. VICTORIA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the boulder'd majesty Last Line: Dreamlike steals over each dim range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUNSET AT CORONADO, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: A trireme of el dorado is plunging down the blue Last Line: The transmuted glory-fires of california gold. Subject(s): California; Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET BALCONIES, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: For me no winter twilight falls Last Line: That memory treasures of her face. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET CLOUDS, by MAUD BROCKETT FINCH Poem Text First Line: The sunset clouds are gathering over yonder in the west Last Line: Oh! Sunset clouds, good-by. Subject(s): Clouds; Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET GOBLETS, by LINDA LAETSCH Poem Text First Line: The gods have their goblets out toninght Last Line: The happiness in the west. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET IN AUTUMN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-coloured oaks, that stand against a sky of gold and brass Last Line: And then the shuttering clouds close down -- and night is here again. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET IN MARCH, by EVA MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the busy wind had swept the sky Last Line: Of angels crowding round his royal bed. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET IN MOSCOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the splendor of the city Last Line: Chill the wind of midnight blows. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Moscow At Evening Subject(s): Evening; Moscow; Russia; Sunset; Twilight; Soviet Union; Russians SUNSET IN THE HARBOR, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into night's arms there sinks the wounded sun Last Line: And covers her with veils of mauve and gray! Subject(s): Evening; Harbors; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET IN TREASURE VALLEY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The golden stream reflects the gleam Last Line: For aye in treasure valley. Subject(s): Evening; Treasures; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET ON REELFOOT LAKE, by DAN KROLL Poem Text First Line: On reelfoot lake, at close of day Last Line: When the lonely waters have gone to rest. Subject(s): Evening; Lakes; Sunset; Twilight; Pools; Ponds SUNSET ON THE CUMBERLAND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the 'chimneys' yesterday Last Line: That sunset scene admiring. Subject(s): Cumberland Mountains; Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAINS, by ADRIAN BERKOWITZ Poem Text First Line: Apollo, homeward bound Last Line: Their gloom o'er hill and dale. Subject(s): Evening; Mountains; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SUNSET REVERENCE, by DOROTHEA PIERSON MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: Gently the evening breeze dies down Last Line: With peace to end the dying day. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET: ST. LOUIS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset Last Line: Resting in twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; St. Louis, Missouri; Sunset; Twilight SUNSETS, by FLORENCE BOYCE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: God, you need not make for me Last Line: By your sunsets in the west. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSETS, by EDWARD DOWDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did your eyes watch the mystic sunset splendours Last Line: Feel, through what spaces of clear heaven I wander! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SUNSETS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are sunsets who whisper a good-by Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight SURPRISED BY EVENING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is unknown dust that is near us Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TAPS, by WILLIAM FELTER Poem Text First Line: Along the wimpling stream Last Line: Good night! Good night! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE AFTERMATH, by JAMES HENDRY Poem Text First Line: The glamour of the after-light Last Line: And strengthen in its mystic glow. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE ARTIST, by GENE J. MOORE Poem Text First Line: The copper hills of sunset Last Line: His canvas is the world. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE COOL OF THE EVENING, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is low in air Last Line: Then afterward to bed. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE DAY IS DONE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day is done, and the darkness / falls from the wings of night Last Line: And as silently steal away. Subject(s): Evening; Home; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE DAY IS DONE, by CRELLE KALB VICKERS Poem Text First Line: The day is done - and now Last Line: The day is done. Subject(s): Blessings; Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An hour ago the lulling twilight Last Line: And still shall weep, a world above its loss. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earth; Earthquakes; Evening; Loss; World; Sunset; Twilight THE END OF THE DAY, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the bells at eventide Last Line: Good night.' Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE END OF THE SUNSET TRAIL, by ALMA C. BINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Daylight fading Last Line: At the end of the sunset trail. Subject(s): Evening; Homecoming; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING LIGHT ALONG THE SOUND, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As if the sky could no longer hold its color Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING PRIMROSE, by SYDNEY BALDWIN SELF Poem Text First Line: Darkly the hay-sweet meadows dream / away the hours Last Line: Gather from out the mist. Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING RISE, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Litten with lots and lots of little moons Last Line: Have time for supper and a cider-cup! Subject(s): Evening; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING SKY IN MARCH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'd Last Line: As venus light-foot mid the twined branches goes. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING STROLL, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts Last Line: Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Evening; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING SUN WAS SINKING DOWN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit that breathest through my lattice, thou Last Line: He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. Variant Title(s): To The Evening Wind Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING WIND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eastern mail comes lumbering in Last Line: From hence to athabasca lake. Subject(s): Evening; Wind; Sunset; Twilight THE EVENING, ON THE SEA SHORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet evening hour! Thy gale is balm Last Line: And call the fairies by thy power. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE EYES OF THE EAST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I sing the east at sunset, the low east Last Line: With awe are holden and with strange surmise. Subject(s): Evening; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sun; Sunset; Twilight; Songs THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; 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 HOUSE OF DUST: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight THE LADY OF THE LAKE: CANTO 1. THE CHASE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the north! That mouldering long hast hung Last Line: And morning dawned on ben-venue. Subject(s): Courage; Evening; Fairies; Holidays; Katrine, Loch (scotland); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Trees; Women - Bible; Valor; Bravery; Sunset; Twilight; Elves; Virgin Mary THE LOST OCCASION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, fair day and fading light! Last Line: The hero in the coming day! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Day; Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE LUCKFLOWER, by HARVEY W. FLINK Poem Text First Line: Upon a rugged hill-side Last Line: Upon the mountain sides. Subject(s): Dawn; Evening; Flowers; Mountains; Sunrise; Sunset; Twilight; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MILKY WAY, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Evening has come; and across the skies Last Line: Guiding our thoughts to god. Subject(s): Evening; Sky; Stars; Universe; Sunset; Twilight THE MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD CHURCH TOWER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old church tower and garden wall Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Evening; Autumn; Sunset; Twilight; Fall THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 147, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sunset I went down the western slope Last Line: Didn't I tremble in fright Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Evening; Fear; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE POET'S JOURNAL: SECOND EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the evening of the second day Last Line: "the sole inscriptions they have left behind." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sunset; Twilight THE POET'S JOURNAL: THIRD EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For days before, the wild-dove cooed for rain Last Line: Low harmonies to suit the varied strain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nature; Sunset; Twilight THE RED SUNSETS, 1883 (1), by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boding sky was charactered with cloud Last Line: Once lit the sacking of jerusalem! Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE RED SUNSETS, 1883 (2), by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twilight heavens are flushed with gathering light Last Line: Ye, too, may feast in nature's fairyland. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE RISING TIDE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An idle man, I stroll at eve Last Line: And still the lessening light is sweet. Subject(s): Evening; Seashore; Tides; Walking; Sunset; Twilight; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SATURNIAN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I must follow it high and low Last Line: And from my birth have I been such. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Flowers; God; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime THE SUN IS DOWN, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is down, and time gone by Last Line: Gay dreams to all! Good night, good night! Subject(s): Evening; Sleep; Sunset; Twilight THE TEMPLE IN THE TWILIGHT, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: The lyric of the timid thrush Last Line: After the evening song. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THE UNWILLING GYPSY, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wide green earth is mine in which to wander Last Line: The light of home! Subject(s): Evening; Stars; Sunset; Twilight THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VICES OF THE EVENING, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way the light and shadow Subject(s): Evening; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight THEY MAY RAIL AT THIS LIFE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They may rail at this life-from the hour I began it Last Line: And leave earth to such spirits as you, love, and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Creation; Earth; Evening; Love; Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight THINGS I LOVE, by CRISTEL HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: I love the winds that sing of roaring sails Last Line: And little things that make me think of you! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight THIS EVENING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sketched this evening Last Line: In the sadness of swans and the dew. Subject(s): Evening; Mourning; October; Silence; Sunset; Twilight; Bereavement THURSDAY, by FREDERIC EDWARD WEATHERLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was setting, and vespers done Last Line: "benedicite!" Subject(s): Evening; Food & Eating; Monks; Sunset; Twilight TIDAL BASIN AT TWILIGHT, by MARY B. OWEN Poem Text First Line: Over the waves the sea gulls wheeling Last Line: Come to me soon -- come soon. Subject(s): Evening; Sea Gulls; Shrines; Sunset; Twilight TIRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when the day with all its splendor, all its beauty, all its light" Last Line: While with every heart-beat moaning for the priceless boon of rest! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight TIS EVENING NOW, THE SUN DESCENDS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Morning; Evening; Storms; Sunset; Twilight TO BUTTERFLY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how the twilight stood Last Line: When it is march -- do you remember still? Subject(s): Birds; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Moon; Silence; Sunset; Twilight TO EVENING, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet eve, of softest voice and gentle beam Last Line: And leave soft, soothing images behind. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TO SIR RICHARD F. BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward the sun sinks, grave and glad; but far Last Line: Whence laughing love dissolves her frosts and snows. Subject(s): Evening; Time; Sunset; Twilight TO THE EVENING STAR, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou fair-haired angel of the evening Last Line: Thy sacred dew: protect them with thine influence. Subject(s): Bible; Evening; Evening Star; Imagination; Mythology; Stars; Vision; Sunset; Twilight; Fancy TO THE READER: TWILIGHT, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I look Subject(s): Evening; Absence; Sunset; Twilight; Separation; Isolation TWILIGHT, by OLIVE CUSTANCE Poem Text First Line: Spirit of twilight, through your folded wings Last Line: You lift across our earth to cover it. Alternate Author Name(s): Douglas, Lady Alfred Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: How sweet the hour when daylight blends Last Line: And mark the last sunbeams, while sinking to rest. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Twilight! Sweet hour of peace Last Line: And borne aloft, the gates of heaven unclose. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by MILTON C. DOTTEN Poem Text First Line: The twilight turns the mind to inward things Last Line: In that new birth—god's gift of perfect peace. Subject(s): Evening; Past; Peace; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I first in thy so sad regard Last Line: And thou art here and I am everywhere! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an evening twilight of the heart Last Line: A moon-beam in the midnight cloud of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time Last Line: Not for the time being. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In rhapsody the human heart will ever surge Last Line: In radiance sublime, the shores of day and night. Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by CLARA WHITTAKER MORRISSEY Poem Text First Line: From out my casement window low I leant Last Line: "twilight, I love thee." Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The radiant colours in the west are paling Last Line: Till to the speech of earth we bid farewell. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness TWILIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the twilight hour Last Line: In his mercy to the last! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh day of shadows and scents! Oh day of roses! Last Line: Have mercy! Give me back the one I need! Subject(s): Evening; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean TWILIGHT, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the twilight seemed too long Last Line: When I was young the twilight seemed too long. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would ye had not glared on me so soon Last Line: The erring spirit. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like ruth, she follows where the reaper day Last Line: She counts her golden grain. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamily over the roofs Last Line: Is calling, calling, calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft voluptuous opiate shades Last Line: A haze -- nirwana -- rest and night -- oblivion. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by T. A. WIGGINTON Poem Text First Line: The glow has given place to soft, white light Last Line: Is like a stab of pain in quiet heart. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us go Last Line: Only the long, long love 'twixt thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight, no other thing is, poets say Last Line: Then the last part of night, and first of day. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The twi-light is no other thing (we say) Last Line: Then night now gone, and yet not sprung the day. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT (2), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stately tragedy of dusk Last Line: Sank, and the red moon rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT (AFTER RICHEPIN), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light has flown! Last Line: Sing to me! Subject(s): Evening; Richepin, Jean (1849-1926); Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT BY THE CABIN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk, a pearl-grey river, o'er Last Line: He will follow to the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Evening; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT CHEER, by CLEMENT V. ZANE Poem Text First Line: Betimes, when evening lies Last Line: May greatly bless us here! Subject(s): Blessings; Evening; Night; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime TWILIGHT COMES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight comes to the little farm Last Line: I am not an old man. Not yet Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT DREAMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come in the quiet twilight hour Last Line: For the toil of coming day Subject(s): Dreams;evening; Nightmares;sunset;twilight TWILIGHT HOUR, by MARIE CAPPICK Poem Text First Line: In the purple hush of the twilight hour Last Line: And find the strength I ask to meet the day. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT ON A HILL, by CAVE OUTLAW Poem Text First Line: Here, where the earth's breast is warm Last Line: Behind a veil of mauve haze. Subject(s): April; Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT ON SIXTH AVENUE AT NINTH STREET, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the tops of the houses Last Line: Washes a lonely wood. Subject(s): Evening; Streets; Wind; Sunset; Twilight; Avenues TWILIGHT OVER MEMORY LANE, by MATHILDE DORE Poem Text First Line: Into the twilight's velvet curtain Last Line: Of the muffled vesper bell. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT STORIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text 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 TWILIGHT SYMPHONY, by LESLIE ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: The day burned crimson with a fever of delight Last Line: Up to his ebony throne. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT TERROR, by GEORGIANA RICE Poem Text First Line: Evening comes with peace to some Last Line: Oh, comfort me! Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness TWILIGHT TIME, by ANNA MCINTOSH BEVILLE Poem Text First Line: When twilight falls o'er land and sea Last Line: That lies long buried in a grave. Subject(s): Evening; Love - Loss Of; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT TIME, by MILDRED SOUTHWORTH BRYAN Poem Text First Line: When the sun has gone behind the hill Last Line: When we can all be together! Subject(s): Evening; Family Life; Sunset; Twilight; Relatives TWILIGHT VOICES (IN ILLNESS), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the whispering voices Last Line: In the early, early morn. Subject(s): Evening; Sickness; Sunset; Twilight; Illness TWILIGHT'S HOUR, by W. F. E. I. Poem Text First Line: The sunlight on a waveless sea Last Line: Are buried in the great hereafter. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT'S IN THE CORNERS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Twilight's in the corners, the twilight and the fire Last Line: And she's brought the schoolroom lamp in, and the lamp has spoilt it all! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT-PIECE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden river-reach afar Last Line: This small strange touch of human pain! Subject(s): Evening; Fish & Fishing; Nature; Pain; Rivers; Sunset; Twilight; Suffering; Misery TWILIT HARMONY, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hour is come when stems are thrilled Last Line: Thy memory lights me like a monstrance filled! Subject(s): Evening; Hearts; Sunset; Twilight TWO SUNSETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair morning of his life Last Line: And strikes the holiest feelings dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Desire; Evening; Hearts; Life; Punishment; Sunset; Twilight TWO TWILIGHTS COME TO MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The twinned twilight Subject(s): Evening;night;time; Sunset;twilight;bedtime UNION IN DISSEVERANCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset worn to its last vermilion he Last Line: One. More one than the bridally embraced. Subject(s): Evening; Evening Star; Love - Nature Of; Sunset; Twilight UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's no such thing as an emergency Last Line: I know someone, or his assistant, suffered here Variant Title(s): Veronica Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Wine; Sunset; Twilight UNWEDDED, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her there in the evening sun Last Line: You waste your pity on such as she. Subject(s): Evening; Life; Love; Marriage; Women; Sunset; Twilight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VIOLIN SONGS: AT MY WINDOW AFTER SUNSET, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven and the sea attend the dying day Last Line: Eternal love is my eternal prayer. Subject(s): Death; Evening; God; Life; Love; Prayer; Solitude; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness WHEN EVEN COMETH ON, by LUCY EVANGELINE TILLEY Poem Text First Line: The mother-heart doth yearn at eventide Last Line: When even cometh on shall all fare home. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight WHEN EVENING COMES, by DELLA SOWERS Poem Text First Line: Dear master, help me along life's way Last Line: You, always near, when evening comes! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight WHEN EVENING FLOWS, by IDA LITTLE HALE Poem Text First Line: The slowly pacing hours have reached once more Last Line: The long cool evening flows like healing balm. Subject(s): Evening; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sunset; Twilight WHEN EVENING LIKE AN ANGEL, by ARTHUR WALLACE PEACH Poem Text First Line: When evening like an angel walks Last Line: A benedicite! Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight WHEN ON THE MARGE OF EVENING, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on the marge of evening the last blue light is broken Last Line: The late and early twilight alone and sweet for me. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight WHEN SHADOWS ARE CREEPING, by JENNIE E. HUSSEY Poem Text First Line: When over the woods and the river Last Line: The red and white clovers are sleeping. Subject(s): Clover; Evening; Forests; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Woods WINTER EVENING, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the very horses springing by Last Line: Glittering and still shall come the awful night. Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER SUNSET, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a sorrowful sunset we had tonight Last Line: Of this rotten brain which was the earth, one day. Subject(s): Despair; Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER TWILIGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little while ago and you might see Last Line: Moves nightward, merges into mystery. Subject(s): Evening; Snow; Trees; Winter; Sunset; Twilight WINTER: 4. MOONLIGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the mountain peaks how sharply lined Last Line: So breathless is the scene—so hush'd—so still! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Evening; Winter; Sunset; Twilight YEARNING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over the west the glory dies away Last Line: "the gloaming needs its angel; come, my love." Subject(s): Evening; Sunset;twilight ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 6. BRIDAL OF HELEN, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the evening twilight; but, alas! Last Line: Come, and I will gaze on thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Evening; Love; Solitude; Soul; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness ZUN-ZET, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the western zun, unclouded Last Line: Sparkled to the zun a-zettèn. Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight |
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