Twilight. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Twilight


The setting sun O’er the earth its yellow lustre threw And the west was rich with red and blue, Whilst twilight’s curtain, spreading far, Was pinned with single diamond star. M‘Donald Clarke.—Death in Disguise, Line 224.	1
Fades the light And afar Goeth day, cometh night, And a star Leadeth all, Speedeth all To their rest. Bret Harte.—Cadet Grey, Canto II. Stanza 27.	2
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O’er East and West its beam impended, And day, with all its hours of light, Was slowly sinking out of sight, While opposite, the scale of night, Silently with the stars ascended. Longfellow.—The Occultation of Orion	3
The babbling day has touched the hem of night’s garment, and, weary and still, drops asleep in her bosom. Longfellow.—Outre-Mer: A Tailor’s Drawer.	4
The summer’s songs are hushed. Up the lone shore The weary waves wash sadly, and a grief Sounds in the wind, like farewells fond and brief: The cricket’s chirp but makes the silence more. Celia Thaxter.—Twilight, Stanza 3.	5