Twilight at Sea

THE twilight hours, like birds, flew by

   As lightly and as free,

Ten thousand stars were in the sky,

   Ten thousand on the sea;

For every wave, with dimpled face,

   That leaped upon the air,

Had caught a star in its embrace,

   And held it trembling there.

Amelia B. Welby

Index to poems in the collection by Amelia B. Welby