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Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,
Making all bright,
Good night! Good night!


Victor Hugo

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Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
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from Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
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Long chorus,
pierce the night.
Noon for crickets.
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to wear. You look so beautiful
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The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
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The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing da...
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Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Even in the darkest clouds
There are specks of joy
Out of the darkness
Comes light KAREN HACKEL I never named anything I've written before
no reason to
since
it would all have the s...
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Of the grave's delight,
And the warlocks are at their play;
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The starry sky
Dancing in the night
Talking all things life.
NIKKI ROWE You can't
stop dreaming
just because
the night never
seems to
end.
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But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
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Or bed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, g...
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They are powerful ...
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And how it flies to-day
In your land and my land
And half a wo...
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So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I ...
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People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't f...
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Love said, "Wake still and think of me,"
Sleep, "Close your eyes til...
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the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
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At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She...
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the light that I was kissing
sitting back and reminiscing
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but it requires to fade
into the grin of twinkling stars
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On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
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"Always.
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Forever changing places
And they put out the star-light
Wit...
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It will not last the night;
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It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -...
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It will not last the night;
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For ages would its light,
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Should vanish from her clothes into her bed,
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Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to f...
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No tribute, we cannot deny,
We did to world's problems so deep, AKILNATHAN LOGESWARAN So runs my dream, but what am I?
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An infant crying for the li...
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when others are sleeping,
I drown myself
in poetry.
KAMAND KOJOURI My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE i am in need of a sudden Shift,
Your crimson lips. screaming at my Lips.
Let me hold down ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
MICHAEL COX Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE Good girls hold their heads high by daylight,
Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,...
ANNA GODBERSEN Oh draw at my heart, love,
Draw till I'm gone,
That, fallen asleep, I
Still may love ...
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No more darkness, no more night
Now I'm so happy, no sorrow...
HANK WILLIAMS Good night, and good luck.
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The stars shine through
The inky black
That is the cue
For pl...
VIRGINIA ALISON A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC It is wonderful,
this whole business
of tickling and kissing
God every night.
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There would be no more land.
If my love were a desert ,
Yo...
JAY ASHER If my love were an ocean,
there would be no more land.
If my love were a desert,
you ...
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unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
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“You should put that on a ...
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VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO