Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1836-1907

 

Day And Night

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven
That from the East glad message brings:
Night is a stealthy, evil Raven,
Wrapped to the eyes in his black wings.

Source:

Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
Copyright 1876
James R. Osgood And Company, Boston