"Eventide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wailing, and with him the elders and the people, and they wept until eventide, saying: "Is it for the iniquity of the sheep that the shepherd must perish? May the Lord have compassion upon His inheritance that it may not ...
— THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS - FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES • BY LOUIS GINZBERG
... and loud loves cease. I welcome my release; And hail once more Free foot and way world-wide. And oft at eventide Light love to talk ...
— New Poems • Robert Louis Stevenson
... afternoon. In these warm June days, when all the earth is languorous and glad with its own beauty, time slips from us unannounced, and the minutes from morn to eventide, and from the gloaming till nightfall, melt into one another, until all seem one sweet, ...
— Rossmoyne • Unknown
... I know not how, nor why, Float as a transient bubble on the air, As fades the eventide I, too, must die; I came, I know ...
— Mountain idylls, and Other Poems • Alfred Castner King
... promised to entertain the notion, but recalled their lovers to a remembrance of their hungry state. Merrily and blithely supped the three maidens and the three friends that night beneath the greenwood tree; and when in after-years they met at eventide, all happy husbands and wives, with dusky boys and girls crowding round them, that it was the brightest moment of their existence, was the oft-repeated saying of ...
— Tales for Young and Old • Various
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