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Home  »  The Oxford Book of English Verse  »  639. Too solemn for day, too sweet for night

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

William Sidney Walker. 1795–1846

639. Too solemn for day, too sweet for night

TOO solemn for day, too sweet for night, 
  Come not in darkness, come not in light; 
But come in some twilight interim, 
  When the gloom is soft, and the light is dim.