Twilight

Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

From vales of dawn hath Day pursued the Night

Who mocking fled, swift-sandalled, to the west,

Nor ever lingered in her wayward flight

With dusk-eyed glance to recompense his quest,

But over crocus hills and meadows gray

Sped fleetly on her way.

 

Now when the Day, shorn of his failing strength,

Hath fallen spent before the sunset bars,

The fair, wild Night, with pity touched at length,

Crowned with her chaplet of out-blossoming stars,

Creeps back repentantly upon her way

To kiss the dying Day.

 

Lucy Maud Montgomery, who wrote a number of nature poems, is best known for the classic novel Anne of Green Gables. Like Dunbar’s “Dawn,” recently featured on Wrestle with the Angel, Montgomery describes the meeting of day and night as a kiss.