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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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


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


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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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         Poet Analysis         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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Evening; Loss; Sunset; Twilight


STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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     Poem Explanation                 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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither daylight, starlight
Last Line: Drift about like flakes of starlight.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Evening; Story-telling; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight


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     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             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 Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the western zun, unclouded
Last Line: Sparkled to the zun a-zettèn.
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight