Heard Quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis

And this tenderness was not like That which a certain poet At the beginning of the century called true And, for some reason, quiet.…

— Anna Akhmatova

Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they…

— William Butler Yeats

“Lying asleep between the strokes of night I saw my love lean over my sad bed, Pale as the duskiest lily's leaf or head,…

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Deep in the bosom of the gentle night

— Faithless

“Holy sleep, do not so seldom bring happiness to the night’s beloved in this earthly labour of the day.”

— Novalis

“Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon, dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light, what secret knowledge is clasped between your pillars? What…

— Pablo Neruda

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

“In the darkness of night, Demons strut, taunting, goading. In the light of day, Angels sing glorious songs. In the time in between, We…

— Lisa Mangum

“The deepest shade of twilight did not send him from his favourite plane-tree. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again. Slow droplets of you seep in through the night's soft caress. At…

— Shamim Sarif

“I arise from dreams of thee In the first sweet sleep of night, When the winds are breathing low, And the stars are shining…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulness Of dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight) At…

— Theodore Spencer