The poet Emily Dickinson spent her life in the same house, for many years leaving it only at night to tend to her beloved garden, particularly night-flowering lilies. From her 30s she wore only white dresses. She wrote several poems about night-time.
Slow—Night—that must be watched away—
As Grains upon a shore—
Too imperceptible to note—
Till it be night—no more—
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