Black Quote by Wilkie Collins

“The sky darkened, the liquid singing of the blackbirds diminished and ceased, mud hens swam back to shore, climbed up the banks and huddled…

— Leonard Gardner

“Ethereal mist lingered across the hushed landscape, shrouding a round moon, gossamer swans dancing across a lake of pearl. Yet, while it was a…

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of…

— Thomas Gray

“What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to horizon, and thin white wreaths…

— E. Nesbit

It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The Night-Swans by Walter De la Mare 'Tis silence on the enchanted lake, And silence in the air serene, Save for the beating of…

— Walter de la Mare

“In the darkness I thought of Fyodorovich, deep in the Kolyma taiga. It was the eleventh of October, and already, I imagined, the first…

— Fen Montaigne

I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path. / As…

— John O'Donohue

A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of his head…

— Gretel Ehrlich

“I had never seen the view at this time before, at the very pinnacle of night when sunset was far behind us and dawn…

— Rosie Pugh

“A dozen or more boats on the lake swung their rosy and moon–like lanterns low on the water, that reflected as from a fire.…

— D.H. Lawrence

“A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull…

— Alaina Stanford