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Read & copy the quotation
“The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night.”
- Source
- The Day Is Done
- Date
- 1844
Meaning of “The day is done, and the darkness falls…”
Longfellow gives evening a gentle physical movement, making darkness feel less like absence and more like something settling over the world.
Where does it come from?
The Day Is Done, opening stanza; Longfellow introduces the evening mood before asking for soothing poetry.
