In the Gloaming (song)

"In the Gloaming" is an 1877 British song composed by Annie Fortescue Harrison with lyrics taken from a poem by Meta Orred. Orred's poem (of the same title as the song) appeared in her 1874 book Poems.^[1] "Gloaming" is a regional dialect term of Scots origin denoting "twilight".^{[citation needed]}

The 1877 song, a lament of romantic regret, was very popular in the United States that year,^[1] and was again popularized in America in the 1910s by a recording made by The American Quartet with Will Oakland.^{[citation needed]}