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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend...


John Milton

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KELLY JONES Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
STEVIE SMITH Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,
let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body,...
ROMAN PAYNE Then this immensive cup
Of aromatic wine,
Catullus, I quaff up
To that terse muse of thine.
ROBERT HERRICK Starlight beats when heart twinkles
Youthful sky beyond cloudy wrinkles
Muse of glory to f...
MUNIA KHAN He fixed his dark eyes on her. 'I am Kekrops, the first and eternal king of Athens. I would welcome ...
RICK RIORDAN What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this gre...
JOHN MILTON The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has ma...
EDMUND WALLER When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me...
GARY F EVANS... Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pur...
NICK CAVE There were once two sisters
who were not afriad of the dark
because the dark was full of t...
JANDY NELSON In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shar...
DENISE LEVERTOV My whole being is a dark chant
that will carry you perpetuating you
to the dawn of eternal...
FOROUGH FARROKHZAD Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Throu...
DANTE ALIGHIERI The poet dreams of the classroom

I dreamed
I stood up in class
And I said aloud...
MARY OLIVER Bury the embers, extinguish the spark
We plunge ourselves in the well of dark
Far from voi...
SHANNON HALE Thus repulsed, our final hope
Is flat despair: we must exasperate
The Almighty Victor to s...
JOHN MILTON For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
MICHAEL COX I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one b...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,
dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,
w...
PABLO NERUDA Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the e...
T. S. ELIOT Oppression

Now dreams
Are not available
To the dreamers,
Nor songs
To...
LANGSTON HUGHES Down the hill I went, and then,
I forgot the ways of men,
For night-scents, heady and damp...
SARA TEASDALE Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing da...
ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as p...
J.D. BREWER Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST Courage brother, do not stumble,
though thy path be dark as night:
There is a star to gui...
NORMAN MACLEOD I would like to sing someone to sleep,
to sit beside someone and be there.
I would like to...
RAINER MARIA RILKE What are you smiling at?”

I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Go...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we...
MISHI MCCOY I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump i...
SANDRA HARNER I am humbled by the grace of God.
I am humbled by the beauty of this universe.
Humbled by ...
KAMAND KOJOURI LITTLE DOGS RHAPSODY IN THE NIGHT
(PERCY THREE)

He puts his cheek against mine
...
MARY OLIVER Acquainted with the Night

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have w...
ROBERT FROST Wanderess, Wanderess,
weave us a story of seduction and ruse.
Heroic be the Wanderess, <...
ROMAN PAYNE a happy birthday

this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was g...
TED KOOSER When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud
And goes down burning into the gulf below,
...
ROBERT FROST Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night JOHN KEATS And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the alway...
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's b...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON And now it is said of me
That my love is nothing because I have borne no children,
Or bec...
JAMES WRIGHT One clear night while the others slept, I climbed
the stairs to the roof of the house and under...
MARK STRAND From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Huang Sung turned to the master and asked, "Master, will it come to pass?"
The master looked up...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,
Through present wrong the eternal right;
And, step by step...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I...
ROBERT FROST Into the wind we vary,
Our hearts free of youth,
Mold me into envy,
If I can’t have...
ADRIANNA STEPIANO All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun,
When a good man...
STEVEN MOFFAT The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed...
Like thief in ...
TOBA BETA We thought everything would be
forgotten, but I still remember your
claws running down my...
ZAEEMA J. HUSSAIN What avails love when life is so ephemeral?
What avaiIs a mortal’s love for the immortal?
<...
ALLAMA IQBAL Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I want to read every book that’s written
hear every song that was sung
I want to gaze at...
SANOBER KHAN The Ghost

Like angels fierce and tawny-eyed,
Back to your chamber I will glide, ROY CAMPBELL, POEMS OF BAUDELAIRE (NEW YORK: PANTHEON BOOKS, 1952) Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me am...
DANTE ALIGHIERI Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through m...
DANTE ALIGHIERI O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention,
A kingdom for a st...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Songs of the Soul

On a dark night,
Inflamed by love-longing -
O exquisite risk!...
SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ The Prologue to TERRITORY LOST

"Of cats' first disobedience, and the height
O...
HENRY N. BEARD In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We dream our lives. But the rivers breathe flint
and spark
and, each night, we believe in ...
RENEE ASHLEY Standing at the edge of time
Almost falling down to the dark abyss
As I near the end of mi...
ISABELLE GUZMAN I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE The Children's Hour

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
...
SYLVIA PLATH So that the Universe felt love,
by which, as somebelieve,
the world has many times been tu...
DANTE ALIGHIERI I got schooled this year
by
a
boy.

A boy that I'm seriously, dee...
COLLEEN HOOVER There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage."
"Wha...
ADDISON MOORE Your friendship is a glowing ember
Through the year; and each December
From its warm and ...
THELMA J. LUND I have woken up…quite sloshed
from night-mingled rains
a little drugged, by mountain fog...
SANOBER KHAN Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Slowly the truth is loading
I'm weighted down with love
Snow lying deep and even
Stru...
DAVID GRAY Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver'...
JERRY SPINELLI So modern pothecaries taught the art
By doctors bills to play the doctor's part.
Bold in t...
ALEXANDER POPE Oh happy we, the first-born heirs of nature,
For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light!
He ...
GEORGE E. WOODBERRY It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom y...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no rea...
ALAN MOORE I am Italian and Hungarian by descent. Or, as we say in my neighborhood, I'm John Kerry Irish.
CHRIS GABRIELI The Call

Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There wa...
RUPERT BROOKE Turn on the lights,
And hide from sight,
As we come trick or treating,
Throughout th...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I don't love her anymore
So
Why should I walk
Nights
By the tavern
Where I ...
ORHAN VELI KANıK All dust is the same dust.
Temporarily separated
To go peacefully
And enjoy the et...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC ...feel the fierce way desire
tourniquets itself around you and
clings

Clubland...
CLINT CATALYST The stars, like the hollow eyes of a god forgotten, marry the sadness of the exhausted hour and insp...
MARLEN KOMAR Child of shadows, once born of flesh
Un-winged, amidst fear and agony

‘Fraid of th...
ZUBAIR AHSAN Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue an...
W.B. YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eter...
ALEXANDER POPE How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal ...
ALEXANDER POPE

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L...
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As I pace the deck alone,
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That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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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.
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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?
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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 ...
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JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
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JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, 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.
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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.
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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, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade 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 To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
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JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven, 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: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON