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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. XVIII. Evening

Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893)

NOW in the west is spread

A golden bed;

Great purple curtains hang around,

With fiery fringes bound,

And cushions, crimson red,

For Phœbus’ lovely head;

And as he sinks through waves of amber light,

Down to the crystal halls of Amphitrite,

Hesper leads forth his starry legions bright

Into the violet fields of air—Good night!