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Twilight

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  • Title: Twilight
  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00136
  • Source: Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 37 (December 1887): 264. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm copy of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the periodical poems, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang April Lambert Heather Morton Leslie Ianno Ramon Guerra Susan Belasco
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Twilight." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 15 December 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00136.xml (TEI)
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TWILIGHT.1

THE soft voluptuous opiate-shades, The sun just gone, the eager light dispelled—(I too 
  will soon be gone, dispelled), A haze—nirvana—rest and night—oblivion. Walt Whitman.

Notes

1. Reprinted in the "Sands at Seventy" annex to Leaves of Grass (1888). [back]

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