Named source · 1844

The Day Is Done Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Context & Meanings

1 quotation linked to The Day Is Done by or associated with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with source notes, explanations and related topics.

Read the source

Open a public or archival text connected with these quotations

Use these links when you want to inspect the wording in its wider work or edition.

Represented passages

Source identified1

Read & copy

“The day is done, and the darkness falls from the wings of Night.”

Meaning & context

Longfellow gives evening a gentle physical movement, making darkness feel less like absence and more like something settling over the world.

Source details

The Day Is Done, opening stanza; Longfellow introduces the evening mood before asking for soothing poetry.