"AlpenGlow" quotations?

Though that golden twenty minutes at the end of the day is reserved most often for my photographing eyes, I

often resort to penning my thoughts that might represent that inspiring fading light. Has anyone discovered

articles, books, romantic writings that reflect these moments in words? Thanks *

Frank Dempster Sherman's "Dawn and Dusk" has always seemed like an

especially good poem to me, vividly describing the light at the ends

of the day.

Gary,

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This passage from ch. 4 "A Near View of the High Sierra" in The

Mountains of California (1894), Anchor Books edition p. 45, is the

fullest statement I could find in John Muir's major writings after a

brief search. Nick.

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"Now came the solemn, silent evening. Long, blue, spiky shadows

crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce

discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top,

flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the

alpenglow, to me one of the most impressive of all the terrestrial

manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the

mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and

stood hushed and waiting like devout worshipers. Just before the

alpenglow began to fade, two crimson clouds came streaming across the

summit like wings of flame, rendering the sublime scene yet more

impressive; then came darkness and the stars."