TWILIGHT  

Related Subjects: Evening, Sunset

1. 'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down
   Over the waste of waters; like a veil,
   Which, if withdrawn, would but disclose the frown
   Of one whose hate is mask'd but to assail.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. Beauteous Night lay dead
   Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank.—GEORGE ELIOT, Spanish Gypsy
   

3. In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,—
   Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,—
   And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.—
   Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night.—GOETHE, Venetian Epigrams
   

4. Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose.—O. W. HOLMES, Poems of the Class of '29
   

5. Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. Twilight, ascending slowly from the east,
   Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
   O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day;
   Night followed, clad with stars.—SHELLEY, Alastor
   

7. Twilight and evening bell,
   And after that the dark.—TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar

8. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
   Like twilight's too her dusky hair.—WORDSWORTH, She Was a Phantom of Delight