Sweet the coming on / Of grateful evening mild; then silent night / With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, / And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
John Milton
Related With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sw... JOHN MILTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watc... EDNA DEAN PROCTER The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Befo... EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep. WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
... WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light wal... WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband... KARL PHILIPP MORITZ you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;
And all that's best o... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar... LORD BYRON Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more?? This and this?? DEYTH BANGER Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in th... ROBERT SOUTHEY The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, in... JOHN MILTON I likened her to the slender PSYCHÉ and judged that the perfection of her face ennobled everything ... ROMAN PAYNE Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours,
Of winter's past or coming void of care,
Well p... WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dar... LORD BYRON She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of da... LORD BYRON Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life... C. JOYBELL C. I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�... CHRISTINA ENGELA And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast,
(O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,Let u... IRVING BERLIN The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night. WILLIAM BLAKE She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's b... GEORGE GORDON BYRON Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living DAVID RAKOFF The moon pull'd off her veil of light,
That hides her face by day from sight
(Mysterious veil,... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) There was a sound of revelry by night,
And Belgium's capital had gather'd then
Her Beauty and ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night. WILLIAM BLAKE In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere
That gems the starry girdle of the year. LORD JOHN CAMPBELL, FIRST BARON CAMPBELL The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains--Beautiful!
I linge... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. FREDERICK L. KNOWLES The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand. FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,... IRVING BERLIN Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothi... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH At length her grace rose and with modest paces
Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-lik... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me... She showed me her room, isn't it good, ... NORWEGIAN WOOD (THE BEATLES) I called Linda and told her that Dolly was coming over. This one evening, there was no particular re... EMMYLOU HARRIS 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, hangs s... JOAQUIN MILLER 'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms
Of F... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the o... ROBERT PEEL The town called her Buttercake in honor of her sweet cheeks and not the ones on her face. AMY LABONTE Her silver voice
Is the rich music of a summer bird,
Heard in the still night, with its passio... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH 'Twas on an evening fair I went to take the air, I heard a maid making her moan; Said, ... CASSANDRA CLARE Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the li... JOSEPH ADDISON By her who in this month is born,
No gems save Garnets should be worn;
They will insure her co... UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon. LAURA KREITZER Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who... NTOZAKE SHANGE Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ... JOHN MILTON I'm doing this for us, my wife and me. I'll get on top of the mountains and be closer to heaven and ... JUSTIN KAMP The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The bird
That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet
complainings. WILLIAM C. SOMERVILLE Dads, no matter your relationship with your kid’s mom, honor her this weekend. Mother’s Day isn�... STEVE MARABOLI Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... ... HARRY STYLES She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ... HUBERT MARTIN A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars... BIBLE Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing,
And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,
M... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind
She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's ... TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Slowly, silently, now the moon / Walks the night in her silver shoon. WALTER DE LA MARE As the moon's fair image quaketh
In the raging waves of ocean,
Whilst she, in the vault of hea... HEINRICH HEINE The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley... WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further ever... ALICE MUNRO Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the... EDMUND WALLER Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. THOMAS MOORE I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing,
So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;
So blit... NORA PERRY Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y... FRANCIS BEAUMONT Her name, said the Oracle, will this time be Ama, a female that sleeps in every one of us, Yin of Cr... NATAšA NUIT PANTOVIć Gracefully, gracefully glides our bark
On the bosom of Father Thames,
And before her bows the ... THOMAS NOEL Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds JOHN MILTON Are you ready for the rapture of the church Are you ready for Heaven Our Lord Jesus Christ... DORIS IJEOMA BASIL Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity. AMY HARMON His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emoti... FULTON J. SHEEN Hello again,’ she said, shivering in the night air.‘Good eve, fair lady, your forgiveness we imp... MARISSA MEYER This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ... CARSON MCCULLERS Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the ni... A.E. HOUSMAN While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state... CHRISTINA ENGELA She blows kisses to the one who danced through her dreams and leaves a trail of moon dust on her hea... VIRGINIA ALISON I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember... ALLY CONDIE A bird sang sweet and strongIn the top of the highest tree,He said, "I pour out my heart in songFor ... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS “And in the process,” Morpheus says from beside the fireplace, “you’ll destroy ... A.G. HOWARD And her face so fair
Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) This was one of her first experiences coming out and playing and being a part of the varsity team. JOAN RACHETTO And yonder sits a maiden,
The fairest of the fair,
With gold in her garment glittering,
... HEINRICH HEINE I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, yo... EMO PHILIPS That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. RITA MORENO O starry night, This is how I want to die ANNE SEXTON Night is coming on and I am filled with indescribable loneliness. Felt feverish; bathed in a black, ... JOHN MUIR I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tr... MO DAVIAU Tonight I Can Write Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for e... PABLO NERUDA I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON
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Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora. JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot... JOHN MILTON If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M... JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words. JOHN MILTON He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow. JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth! JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread. JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o... JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w... JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar... JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi... JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night? JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde... JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return. JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair. JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that... JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower. JOHN MILTON From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
... JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv... JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ... JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills... JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
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Without all hope of ... JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o... JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence. JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th... JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge... JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he. JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. JOHN MILTON That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity. JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
... JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape? JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names. JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it! JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash. JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ... JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a... JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out. JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi... JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o... JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
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With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
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Is flat despair. JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
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Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c... JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro... JOHN MILTON The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear
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Bereft of light, their seeing ha... JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room
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Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
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Of miser's treasures. JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
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. . . .
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My heart, which by a secret harmony
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What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
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Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum... JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. JOHN MILTON What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an... JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible. JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
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