Evening

Evening

Evening in its primary meaning is the period of the day between afternoon and night. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin just before dusk, when temperatures begin to fall, and last until just after nightfall, when complete darkness has been reached.

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Famous quotes containing the word evening:

    “I stood and watched the evening star
    As long as it watched me.”
    —Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)

    “O the evening robin, at the end of a New England summer day! If I could ever find the twig he sits upon!”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)