“Twilight, ascending slowly from the east,
Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day,
Night followed, clad with stars.”

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816)

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English Romantic poet 1792–1822

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