Twilight and I Went Hand in Hand

Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)



Twilight and I went hand in hand,
As lovers walk in shining Mays,
O'er musky, memory-haunted ways,
Across a lonely harvest-land,
Where west winds chanted in the wheat
An old, old vesper wondrous sweet.

Oh, Twilight was a comrade rare
For gypsy heath or templed grove,
In her gray vesture, shadow-wove;
I saw the darkness of her hair
Faint-mirrored in a field-pool dim,
As we stood tip-toe on its rim.

We went as lightly as on wings
Through many a scented chamber fair,
Among the pines and balsams, where
I could have dreamed of darling things,
And ever as we went I knew
The peeping fairy folk went too.

I could have lingered now and then
By gates of moonrise that might lead
To some forgotten, spiceried mead,
Or in some mossy, cloistered glen,
Where silence, very still and deep,
Seemed fallen in enchanted sleep.

But Twilight ever led me on,
As lovers walk, until we came
To hills where sunset's shaken flame
Had paled to ashes dead and wan;
And there, with footsteps stolen-light
She left me to the lure of night.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 07, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABBACC DEEDFF GDDGHH IXXIJJ KLLKMM
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,023
Words 185
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

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