Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) United States poet
Summer's Call. Compare: "I heard the trailing garments of the Night / Sweep through her marble halls", Longfellow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Song Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) http://www.lyrics007.com/Bing%20Crosby%20Lyrics/Where%20The%20Blue%20Of%20The%20Night%20Meets%20The%20Gold%20Of%20The%20Day%20Lyrics.html
Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878) United States poet
Summer's Call. Compare: "I heard the trailing garments of the Night / Sweep through her marble halls", Longfellow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk
for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born
“Her hair is Harlow gold
Her lips a sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Bette Davis eyes”
Jackie DeShannon (1941) American singer-songwriter
"Bette Davis Eyes" (1975); written with Donna Weiss
“The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.”
John Ferriar (1761–1815) British writer and physician
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 6, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
“I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)