curtainest

Updated: May 26, 2025

As says the poet: With hair that hides her rosy cheeks ev'n to her speaking eyes, She comes; and I her locks compare unto a sable cloud And say to her, "Thou curtainest the morning with the night." But she, "Not so; it is the moon that with the dark I shroud."

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I