"The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche, Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dun, As if …"

"'Twas twilight, and the sunless day went down Over the waste of waters, like a veil, Which, if withdrawn, would but d…"

"Beauteous Night lay dead Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star sickened and shrank."

"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table;"

"Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were."

"But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill."

"The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east."

"Look, the gentle day Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey."

"The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives signal of a goodly day to-morrow."

"Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest…"