Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Twilight at Sea
By Amelia B. Welby (18191852)[Born in St. Michael’s, Md., 1819. Died in Louisville, Ky., 1852. Poems. By Amelia. 1849.—Twelfth Edition. 1854.]
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As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
Ten thousand on the sea;
For every wave with dimpled face,
That leaped upon the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace,
And held it trembling there.