"Evenfall" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... poem of your sufferings, and your aspirations, and your miscomprehensions by those you love. I remember as yesterday that you have said, that cruel fate have linked you to a soulless state—that—but I speak not well your own beautiful language—you are in tears at evenfall 'because that you are not understood of others, and that your soul recoiled from iron bonds, until, as in a dream, you sought succor and release in some true Knight of ...
— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... the conversation was becoming difficult again. I wished it could be terminated. And so it was. For at this moment something came shimmering through the laurels in the quiet evenfall, and I perceived ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... the ancient wonders, of the wells of Death and Life, Of the voices of the Forest that quell both hate and strife; I dream of the ancient wonders, but greater than them all Is the luring laugh of Moira when day 's at evenfall. ...
— Sprays of Shamrock • Clinton Scollard
... our fairy banquet hall! See how it opens to the East, And looks through elms! The board is small, But what it bears shall be a feast At morn, and noon, and evenfall. ...
— The Mistress of the Manse • J. G. Holland
... slightingly at the mirk and glimmer in which his ancestors wandered; his heart waxes jocund at the contrast; nor do his lips refrain from a stave, in the highest style of poetry, lauding progress and the golden mean. When gas first spread along a city, mapping it forth about evenfall for the eye of observant birds, a new age had begun for sociality and corporate pleasure-seeking, and begun with proper circumstance, becoming its own birthright. The work of Prometheus had advanced by ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson
... in mortal guise, The potent witchery of their call, If dawn be regnant in the skies, Or evenfall. ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse |
