Quotes about Night

Peace, and not riches, had been the great legacy which He had left with the eleven the night before His crucifixion.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

Softly the breezes from the forest came, Softly they blew aside the taper's flame; Clear was the song from Philomel's far bower; Grateful the incense from the lime-tree flower; Mysterious, wild, the far-heard trumpet's tone; Lovely the moon in ether, all alone: Sweet too, the converse of these happy mortals, As that of busy spirits when the portals Are closing in the west; or that soft humming We hear around when Hesperus is coming. Sweet be their sleep.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

All is well, tho' faith and form Be sunder'd in the night of fear.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

But now at last the sacred influence Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire As from her outmost works a broken foe With tumult less and with less hostile din

The towers of Heaven are filled With armed watch that render all access Impregnable,; oft on the bordering deep Encamp their legions or with obscure wing Scout far and wide into the realm of night, Scorning surprise.

With borrowed light her countenance triform Hence fills and empties to enlighten the earth, And in her pale dominion checks the night.

As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.