"Twilit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you in the twilit garden, Laid a lover's hand upon your shoulder, And we both were made aware of loving Past the reach of reason to unravel, Or the much desiring heart ...
— Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics • Bliss Carman
... number, Dust the noon of night, Thou the early slumber And the still delight Of the gentle twilit hours Rulest in ...
— Spirits in Bondage • (AKA Clive Hamilton) C. S. Lewis
... spreads over the earth, silence rests on the water, and your voice leads me back to some primal world of infancy lost in twilit consciousness. However, whether this be dream, or fragment of forgotten reality, come near and place your right hand on my forehead. Rumour runs that I was deserted by my mother. Many a night she has come to me in my slumber, but when I cried: "Open your veil, show me your ...
— The Fugitive • Rabindranath Tagore
... the meaning of the gods. But where the cliffs turn southward there sits behind the gods Brimdono, the oldest whirlpool in the sea, roaring to guard his masters. Him the gods have chained for ever to the floor of the twilit sea to guard the door of the forest that lieth above the cliffs. Here, then, if thou canst hear the voices of the gods as thou hast said, thou wilt know their meaning clear, but this will profit thee little when Brimdono drags thee down ...
— Time and the Gods • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]
... her chair, holding herself proudly and yet with a certain meekness. With his hands clasped behind him, as though even yet he dared not touch her, he crossed the twilit room ...
— The Street Called Straight • Basil King |
