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★ Night

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

 

This kind of night – it’s like the clocks are going backwards.  Boardwalk Empire s5e6: Devil You Know, club gangsta, HBO 2014

 

 

For much of human history, when the sun went down and the dark set in, we were at the mercy of the night.  Jim Al-Khalili, Light and Dark, BBC 2013

 

 

O nights and feasts divine!  Horace, Satires

 

 

Most glorious night!

Thou wert not made for slumber.  Lord Byron, Childe Harolds Pilgrimage III:93

 

 

Dusky like night, but night with all her stars,

Or cavern sparkling with its native spars;

With eyes that were a language and a spell,

A form like Aphrodites in her shell,

With all her loves around her on the deep,

Voluptuous as the first approach of sleep.  Lord Byron, The Island

 

 

For the night

Shows stars and women in a better light.  Lord Byron, Don Juan II:153

 

 

I linger yet with nature, for the night

Hath been to me a more familiar face

Than that of man; and in her starry shade

Of him and solitary loveliness

I learned the language of the world.  Lord Byron, Manfred

 

 

So, we’ll go no more a-roving

So late into the night,

Though the heart be still as loving,

And the moon be still as bright.  Lord Byron, So We’ll Do No More A-Roving

 

 

The night has a thousand eyes

And the day but one.  F W Bourdillon  

 

 

It’s been a hard day’s night,

And I’ve been working like a dog.  John Lennon & Paul McCartney, title of song 1964

 

 

I have been acquainted with the night.  Robert Frost, Acquainted with the Night, 1928

 

 

Beyond the window, night stands like a black column ... A shadowy radiance lies on the earth, and hanging from the bushes are necklaces of gleaming fruit.  Isaac Babel, Red Cavalry, 1926

 

 

O struggling with the darkness of the night,

And visited all night by troops of stars.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni, 1809

 

 

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness – inspissated gloom.  Samuel Johnson

 

 

Come to me in the silence of the night;

Come in the speaking silence of a dream;

Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright

As sunlight on a stream;

Come back in tears,

O memory, hope, love of finished years.  Christina Rossetti, Echo 1862

 

 

Hung be heavens with black, yield day to night!  William Shakespeare, Henry VI I i 1

 

 

Acts of black night.  William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus V i 64, Aaron to Lucius

 

 

Come, civil night,

Thou sober-suited matron all in black ... Come gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night.  William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet III ii @10-11

 

 

Night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,

And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger;

At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,

Troop home to churchyards.  William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream I i 149, Puck

 

O weary night, O long and tedious night,

Abate thy hours.  ibid.  III iii 19, Helena

 

And think no more of this nights accidents

But as the fierce vexation of a dream.  ibid.  IV i 75-76, Oberon to Robin

 

Now it is the time of night

That the graves, all gaping wide,

Every one lets forth his sprite

In the church way paths to glide.  ibid.  V ii 9-12

 

 

The moon shines bright: in such a night as this

Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls,

And sighed his soul toward the Grecian tents,

Where Cressid lay that night.  William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice V i 1

 

In such a night

Stood Dido with a willow in her hand

Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love

To come again to Carthage.  ibid.  V i 9

 

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.  ibid.  V i 54

 

The night methinks is but the daylight sick.  ibid.  V i 124

 

These blessed candles of the night.  ibid.  V i 220

 

 

Night hangs upon mine eyes.  William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar V v 41, Brutus

 

 

’Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world.  William Shakespeare, Hamlet III ii

 

 

This will last out a night in Russia,

When nights are longest there.  William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure II i 144

 

 

This is the night

That either makes me or fordoes me quite.  William Shakespeare, Othello V i 128

 

 

This out-of-season threat’ning dark-eyed night.  William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear II i 119, Regan

 

Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds

Do sorely rustle.  For many miles about

There’s not a bush.  ibid.  II ii 457-459, Gloucester

 

 

Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry, ‘Hold, hold!’  William Shakespeare, Macbeth I v 50

 

The night has been unruly.  Where we lay

Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say,

Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,

And prophesying with accents terrible

Of dire combustion and confused events

New-hatched to th’ woeful time.  The obscure bird

Clamoured the livelong night.  Some say the earth

Was feverous and did shake.  ibid.  II iii

 

By th’ clock ’tis day,

And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.

Is’t night’s predominance or the day’s shame

That darkness does the face of earth entomb

When living light should kiss it?  ibid.  II iv @6, Ross

       

Ere the bat hath flown

His cloistered flight, ere, to black Hecate’s summons

The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums

Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done

A deed of dreadful note.  ibid.  III ii 40  

 

Come, seeling night,

Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day,

And with thy bloody and invisible hand,

Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond

Which keeps me pale!  Light thickens, and the crow

Makes wings to the rooky wood;

Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,

Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.  ibid. III ii 46

 

 

When trade and traffic and all the noise of town

Is dimmed, and on the streets and squares

The filmy curtain of the night sinks down

With sleep, the recompense of cares,

To me the darkness brings not sleep nor rest.  Alexander Pushkin, Remembrances, 1828

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