| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | A Summer Day by the Sea |
| | | THE SUN is set; and in his latest beams | |
| Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, | |
| Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, | |
| The falling mantle of the Prophet seems. | |
| From the dim headlands many a light-house gleams, | 5 |
| The street-lamps of the ocean; and behold, | |
| O’erhead the banners of the night unfold; | |
| The day hath passed into the land of dreams. | |
| O summer day beside the joyous sea! | |
| O summer day so wonderful and white, | 10 |
| So full of gladness and so full of pain! | |
| Forever and forever shalt thou be | |
| To some the gravestone of a dead delight, | |
| To some the landmark of a new domain. | | | | |
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