July 10, 2021

In Summer Twilight

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr.

Just a dash of lambent carmine
Shading into sky of gold;
Just a twitter of a song-bird
Ere the wings its head enfold;
Just a rustling sigh of parting
From the moon-kissed hill to breeze;
And a cheerful gentle, nodding
Adieu waving from the trees;
Just a friendly sunbeam’s flutter
Wishing all a night’s repose,
Ere the stars swing back the curtain
Bringing twilight’s dewy close.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 10, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“In Summer Twilight” appeared in The Heart of the World (Stratford Co., 1919).

Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He published both prose and poetry, including Poems of the Four Seas (The Cornhill Company, 1921), The Heart of the World (Stratford Co., 1919), and By Sanction of Law (McGrath Publishing Company, 1924). Jones died on December 14, 1955, in Boston.

The Heart of the World
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