Evening Quotes

“Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.”

“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”

“The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.”

“The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration.”

“Hath thy heart within thee burned,
At evening's calm and holy hour?”

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“To me at least was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.”

“Day hath put on his jacket, and around
His burning bosom buttoned it with stars.”

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“One by one the flowers close,
Lily and dewy rose
Shutting their tender petals from the moon.”

“How gently rock yon poplars high
Against the reach of primrose sky
With heaven's pale candles stored.”

“And whiter grows the foam,
The small moon lightens more;
And as I turn me home,
My shadow walks before.”

“The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices.”

“But when eve's silent footfall steals
Along the eastern sky,
And one by one to earth reveals
Those purer fires on high.”

“I was heavy with the even,
When she lit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities.
I laughed in the morning's eyes.”

“Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.”

“O how grandly cometh Even,
Sitting on the mountain summit,
Purple-vestured, grave, and silent,
Watching o'er the dewy valleys,
Like a good king near his end.”

“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”

“Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night,
And maids who love the moon.”

“At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill
And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove.”