Famous quotes containing the word darkening:
“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave
A darkening shudder; water fell away;
The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
“But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“One man walking a deserted platform;
Dawn coming, and rain
Driving across a darkening autumn....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
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