SUNSET

Related Subjects: Evening, Sun, Twilight

1. Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows
   In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces,
   The fading Alps and archipelagoes,
   And great cloud-continents of sunset-sets.—T. B. ALDRICH, Sonnet
   

2. Oft did I wonder why the setting sun
   Should look upon us with a blushing face:
   Is't not for shame of what he hath seen done,
   Whilst in our hemisphere he ran his race?—LYMAN HEATH, On the Setting Sun
   

3. Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors
   Veiled the light of his face, like the
   Prophet descending from Sinai.—LONGFELLOW, Evangeline
   

4. The setting sun, and music at the close,
   As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

5. When the sun sets, who cloth not look for night?—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
   

6. The sun was down,
   And all the west was paved with sullen fire.
   I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell
   At ebb of tide."—ALEXANDER SMITH, A Life Drama