The soft voluptuous opiate shades, The sun just gone, the eager light dispell’d—(I too will soon be gone, dispell’d,) A haze—nirwana—rest and night—oblivion.
Where this text comes from
First published in November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888). Printed in “Sands at Seventy,” the verse section of November Boughs, and gathered into Leaves of Grass as the First Annex in 1891–92, which is the arrangement the corpus text follows. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established. [1] [2]
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Cite this poem
Walt Whitman (1819–1892).
“Twilight.” First published in November Boughs (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888).
Text: Poem Index, https://poemindex.org/walt-whitman/twilight/.
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