“Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskie…”

“Twilight, ascending slowly from the east, Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day, Night followed, clad with stars.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Title: Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816)

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Percy Bysshe Shelley. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley

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