Goddess Quote by Edward Young

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“reached beneath the folds of her cloak and brought forth a lamp, a delicate thing hanging on a slender chain. “To light your way…

— Lesley Livingston

Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus…

— Ben Jonson

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

— Anonymous

“To Selene (Moon) Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide…

— Orpheus

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

— John Milton

The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;…

— William C. Bryant

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

— Jack Prelutsky

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark

— Countee Cullen

“The rose Dawn might have found them weeping still had not grey-eyed Athena slowed the night when night was most profound, and held the…

— Homer

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel…

— Bryan Procter