Potential Titles: Twilight

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Rows of twilight birches - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

The dust of twilight sifting down - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "The Last Caesar"

From beyond the twilight - Homero Aridjis (transl. by George McWhirter) "The angel from beyond the twilight"

Across the twilight of the crane - Maurice Baring "Mozart"

Silver radiance of the twilight hour - Maurice Baring "Vita Nuova"

Who surely as the twilight falls, begin - Clara Doty Bates "A Bear-Story" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]

Along the sullen twilight sail - James Beattie "Ode to Peace: Written in the Year 1756"

The twilight of our mysteries - Robert Hugh Benson "The Teresian Contemplative"

This vacuum of twilight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Deepen our reception to twilight - Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge "Listening"

Bubbling into someone else's twilight - Samuel A. Betiku "Psalm with Displaced Body Rattled in its State of Rest"

Fear of quiet waters and of faint twilights - Arna Bontemps "Nocturne at Bethesda"

Out in the twilight realm of dreams - Ruth Margaret Muskrat [Bronson] "Nunih Waiyah"

That creep round twilight corners - Rupert Brooke "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester"

Scissors to open twilight - Paul Cameron Brown "Not So Much"

Makes tender twilight of her face - Marie Hedderwick Browne "A Portrait"

Where the twilights of life were first drawn - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

That hectic and deep brief twilight - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Through the bars of twilight rifted - W. Wilfred Campbell "Sebastian Cabot"

Grey twilight and a yellow star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

The spell that lurks in twilight - James H. Cousins "Legend of the Blemished King"

Ultimate slopes thoughtful of twilight - George Cronyn "Disillusion"

Twilight seeks the thrill of moon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

Edging across the twilight air - Walter de la Mare "The Honey Robbers"

Watching in the gathering twilight - Walter de la Mare "Voices"

A winter twilight in love's garden - Julián del Casal "Vas Doloris" transl. by William George Williams

moving in the twilight of indifference - Ekaterina Derysheva "stigmas on the body of air" transl. by Ryan Hardy, Asher Maria, and Kevin M.F. Platt

Veiled walks in twilight streets - Jeanne d'Orge "The Sealed Package"

On dimmest wing in Twilight's train - Edward Dowden "From April to October: VII. The Pause of Evening"

The tender Sorrows of the twilight - Edward Dowden "A Song of the New Day"

A twilight hour of breath - Ernest Dowson "Extreme Unction"

Kissed the shining feet of Twilight - Helen Dudley "To One Unknown"

When the breath of twilight blows - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

One with the twilight's dream - A.E. "The Twilight of Earth"

Who moves in the twilight dim - A.E. "Unconscious"

Deliberately in that twilight sorrow - Max Eastman "You Make No Answer"

That final meeting in the twilight kingdom - T.S. Eliot "The Hollow Men"

later than the gods' twilight - Logan February "I Woke You with Wagner,"

Twilight, withdrawal, an opal blame - Bernard Ferguson "awaiting a carriage, any"

Motionless at twilight - John Gould Fletcher "Dead Thoughts"

With rich twilight of witchcraft - Louis Golding "Sunset Over Suburb"

I tried to outrun my shadow when sun met twilight - Carlos Andrés Gómez "Ghazal Circling Fatherhood"

An evening twilight of the heart - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

Less dazzling in her twilight dress - Fitz-Greene Halleck "Twilight"

gods in the twilight of the universe - J.D. Harlock "A Long Time Ago, At the End..."

Saw no twilight of decay - Felicia Hemans "To the Memory of Sir H--y E--ll--s, who Fell in the Battle of Waterloo"

In the first twilight of self-conscious Time - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Tints from twilight evenings - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Rainbow Ribbons"

Echo of forgotten twilights - Edward Hirsch "Blue Hydrangea"

Twilight bursting from thy wheels - George Moses Horton "Memory"

Walk with me in the twilight hush - Walter E. Houghton, Jr. "Love Song"

Gentle twilight's fairy fingers - "Hours of Childhood"

And dew in the twilights between - William D. Howells "A Springtime"

Steals twilight and its shadows - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Placed her in perpetual twilight - Hilarie Jones "The Teacher"

Morning twilight slowly raised its lids - Margaret Junkin "The Destruction of Sodom" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

That sing to sleep the playful twilight - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

In the steep twilight descending - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

The green twilight of the forest-trees - Letitia Elizabeth Landon "The Oak"

As I make my way in twilight now to rest - D.H. Lawrence "Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector"

Twilight ship blown up the tide - Frances Ledwidge "The Lost Ones"

At twilight hour to commune - Alice G. Lee "The Dreamer"

Hand-fast to her twilight appearance - Dana Levin "Meanwhile"

Recall the river arbor at twilight - Li Ch'ing-chao "[Always I recall the river arbor]" transl. by Burton Watson

Now in the haunted twilight - Amy Lowell "The End"

Through the wan twilight of that bitter day - Amy Lowell "Evelyn Ray"

Twilight opened gates unknown - Sidney Royse Lysaght "First Horizons"

In a twilight of the sense - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"

Crowned on the twilight battlefield - Percy MacKaye "Kruppism"

In the twilight space of dream - Jeannette Marks "White Paths"

Cool as dew in twilight - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

The wax seal dried on this common twilight - Michael Meyerhofer "I Christen Thee, My Higgs Boson"

Again to grow in twilight - Edna St. Vincent Millay "Ode to Silence"

Hear your twilight tirade - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Overheard on Bedford Avenue"

More charms where twilight clings - Helen Louise Moriarty "Convent Echoes"

Battling moon and twilight - Pablo Neruda "Cordilleras" transl. by Maria Jacketti

On the bolt of the shackled twilight - Pablo Neruda "Doctor Francia" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Give your twilight rest - Pablo Neruda "Ocean Lady" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Knitted with threads of twilight - Pablo Neruda "Ode to a Pair of Socks" transl. by Mark Strand

Which broke the glass of twilight - Pablo Neruda "Oh, My Lost City" transl. by Alastair Reid

Have lost even this twilight - Pablo Neruda "Twenty Love Poems X" translated by W.S. Merwin

In the twilight's arms the day lies dead - E. Nesbit "[The last bright relic of the moon's full gold]"

For them no twilight or eclipse - Cardinal John Henry Newman "The Dream of Gerontius"

In a violet twilight of virtues and sins - Barry Pain "Martin Luther at Potsdam"

Entered their apartments at twilight - Maryam Ivette Parhizkar "Women of the 1980s"

Sapphires blue and wise with farthest twilight - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

As affection was never twilight - Carl Phillips "First Night at Sea"

Gone steep with twilight - Carl Phillips "Sky Coming Forward"

Tasted midnights and dawns, delayed twilight - Marisca Pichette "Waning, Waning"

The road away to the walls of Twilight Town - Miriam Clark Potter "Twilight Town"

Soft as twilight waters - George D. Prentice "Lines in Memory of My Lost Child"

Flooded the crimson twilight - Adelaide Anne Proctor "Verse: A Lost Chord"

Until the twilight shadows creep - Grantland Rice "Play Ball"

Flitted between larches in the lean twilights - Lola Ridge "Adelaide Crapsey"

Twilight people to be a dusk in memory - Lola Ridge "Firehead part IV: The Stone 2: The Mother"

The Twilight folds her gloom - James Whitcombe Riley "Slumber-Song"

The thrush will pipe at twilight to draw the blossoms out - Lloyd Roberts "One Morning when the Rain-Birds Call"

This spicy air and twilight sweet - Henry W. Rockwell "Mohawk: IV"

Red and gold strike down the twilight dim - Rennell Rodd "In Chartres Cathedral"

There twilight lingers the longest - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

And dreaming through the twilight - Christina Rossetti "Song [When I am dead, my dearest]"

Who tower beside this goddess of twilight air - George William Russell "Aphrodite"

When the breath of twilight blows to flame - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

I am one with twilight's dream - George William Russell "By the Margin of the Great Deep"

Late lingerer in the twilight's glory - George William Russell "A Call of the Sidhe"

Mystic dew dropping from twilight trees - George William Russell "[I thought, beloved, to have brought to you]"

Shadows of the twilight rise to meet us - Arthur L. Salmon "By the River" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.127-v.III, 5 June 1886]

The saddest of all her twilights - Herman George Scheffauer "The Masque of the Elements"

Suspended through the twilight centuries - Ann K. Schwader "Cave Bear Dreams"

Time falls away with twilight - Ann K. Schwader "Last Light, Frijoles Canyon"

The memory of twilight - Clinton Scollard "The Lilac Sea"

The twilight for the lone late bee - Clinton Scollard "Now's the Time o' Year"

In the green flood of twilight - Clara Shanafelt "Interlude"

The twilight star hangs above the hidden hills - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: IX. The Seekers"

Shall have the veils of twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Ashes of Sunset"

Profounder for the twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "The Mirrors of Beauty"

Full of an umber twilight - Clark Ashton Smith "Remembered Light"

To the twilight of the bitter sands - George Sterling "Betrayal"

By violet foam at twilight tost - George Sterling "Duandon"

As twilight mixed its purple - George Sterling "Duandon"

With her dust upon the twilight winds - George Sterling "The Evanescent City"

Twilight in unhesitating hands - George Sterling "Kindred"

The twilight of those sapphire stones - George Sterling "Ocean Sunsets"

The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"

The grey wings of fleeting Twilight - George Sterling "The Spirit of Dusk"

Twilight music that regrets - George Sterling "White Magic"

Above the city's cold twilight - Trumbull Stickney "Six O'Clock"

The twilight is thronged with her ghosts - Arthur Stringer "Ultimata"

Twilight is in my blood - Muriel Stuart "Man and His Makers"

Day in twilight's hair bound safe - Muriel Stuart "The New Aspasia"

Stood a long time in twilight mist - Su Tung-p'o "I Travel Day and Night" transl. by Burton Watson

When the twilight stars are born - E. Sutton "The Bugle"

On the twilight of older faces - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Out of the dark pure twilight - Algernon Swinburne "Three Faces: III. Venice"

Slammed the lid down on the twilight - Mary Szybist "What If I Could Look At You"

Where Pelion's twilight shadow falls - Bayard Taylor "Hylas"

Stars gleam through the twilight vapors of the sea - J. Bayard Taylor "The Angel of the Soul" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

White shadows descending through long twilight - Keith Taylor "The Roads to Cordoba"

And beat the twilight into flakes of fire - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

With a familiar twilight echoing - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

Omens mouthed by winds of twilight - Iris Tree "Moods III"

Bathed in vitriol twilights - Iris Tree "Streets"

Selling their tarnished twilights - Iris Tree "Thoughts of London"

From the green hush of twilight - Iris Tree "[What have I to do with them]"

Where yet the twilight clings - Emile Verhaeren "Les Heures Claires XVII" transl. by Alma Strettell

Planted in the hull of twilight conversation - Diane Wakoski "Snowy Owl Goddess"

At the hushed brink of twilight - William Watson "The Frontier"

Went away in the twilight gray - F.E. Weatherly "A Bunch of Flowers"

The exhausted heaven of twilight - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

As the twilight loves the dark - John Hall Wheelock "Exultation"

Heard the hawks at twilight play - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

In hues of tulip twilight flowers - Helen Hay Whitney "Lyric Love"

A golden glow when twilight curtains fall - Helen Hay Whitney "Winter Song"

To experience Wednesday twilight - John Wieners "au rive"

A new guard at twilight - John Wieners "Forthcoming"

Here in the modern twilight - William Carlos Williams "An After Song"

Fiercer in the twilight - "The Wives of Brixham"

When holy twilight reaches the sleeping cedar - Humbert Wolfe "V.D.F. (Ave atque Vale.)"

Four or five mountains gone rust in twilight - Charles Wright "Chinoiserie VI"

Better to be the last chronicler of twilight - Charles Wright "My Old Clinch Mountain Home"

Deep twilight of rest - W.B. Yeats "He bids his Beloved be at Peace"

Less kind than the gray twilight - W.B. Yeats "Into the Twilight"

The blue star of twilight - W.B. Yeats "The White Birds"

When the tide rose to meet the twilight - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Technicolor and twilight-made - Taylor Johnson "W 177th & Broadway"


Pulls us into its dusty, twilit pockets - Edward Hirsch "Fall"


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