„Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and dark night withdrawn her sable veil.“
— Miguel de Cervantes Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547 - 1616
Zdroj: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
„Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world.“
— Edward Young, Night-Thoughts
Zdroj: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 18.
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„Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask
But from my country's will,
By day, by night, to ply the task
Her cup of bliss to fill.“
— John Quincy Adams American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829) 1767 - 1848
The Wants of Man, stanza 22 (25 September 1841)
Kontext: I want the seals of power and place,
The ensigns of command,
Charged by the people's unbought grace,
To rule my native land.
Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask
But from my country's will,
By day, by night, to ply the task
Her cup of bliss to fill.
„I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882
Hymn to the Night, st. 1 (1839).
„Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.“
— Cate Tiernan American novelist 1961
Zdroj: Full Circle
„p>When o'er the green undeluged earth
Heaven's covenant thou didst shine,
How came the world's grey fathers forth
To watch thy sacred sign.And when its yellow lustre smiled
O'er mountains yet untrod,
Each mother held aloft her child
To bless the bow of God.</p“
— Thomas Campbell British writer 1777 - 1844
Theodric : A Domestic Tale; and Other Poems (1825), To the Rainbow
„She rose and looked at me with delirious black eyes, black and wanton and in a dream, her neck stretched and defining the bulging cords at her throat. she had nothing to say with her lips, but the ghastly cast of her face, the teeth too white and too big now, the frightened smile, these spoke too loudly of the horror shrouding her days and nights…As I walked toward the bed, she pulled up her knees, slipping into a crouched frightened position, as though she expected me to strike her.“
— John Fante, kniha Ask the Dust
Ask the Dust (1939)
„Twilight, ascending slowly from the east,
Entwined in duskier wreaths her braided locks
O'er the fair front and radiant eyes of day,
Night followed, clad with stars.“
— Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822
Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude (1816)
„Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 122.
„Calm on the listening ear of night
Come Heaven’s melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.“
— Edmund Sears American minister 1810 - 1876
Christmas Song, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon.“
— Walter de la Mare English poet and fiction writer 1873 - 1956
Silver.
„Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,
To-night a world that turned from Thee
Is waiting — at Thy Throne.“
— Alfred Noyes English poet 1880 - 1958
Dedication, later published as " A Prayer in Time of War http://www.poetseers.org/poets/alfred_noyes/a_prayer_in_time_of_war/"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)
Kontext: p>Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,
To-night a world that turned from Thee
Is waiting — at Thy Throne.The towering Babels that we raised
Where scoffing sophists brawl,
The little Antichrists we praised —
The night is on them all.</p
„Her majesty, being now in possession of her imperial crown and estate pertaining to it, cannot forsake that faith that the whole world knows her to have followed and practiced since her birth; she desires, rather, by God's grace, to preserve it till her death; and she desires greatly that her subjects may come to embrace the same faith quietly and with charity, whereby she shall receive great happiness.“
— Mary I of England Queen of England and Ireland 1516 - 1558
Proclamation concerning Religion (1553-08-18).
„No sound doth great the still of night;
My mother land in silence lies;
Yet oft is heard an anguished moan
As Georgia in her slumber sighs. I stand alone … the mountains, shades
The slumber of my land caress.
O God! O God! when will we wake
And rise again to happiness?“
— Ilia Chavchavadze Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox Church 1837 - 1907
Elegy, p. 60
Anthology of Georgian Poetry (1948)
„A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.“
— Washington Irving, kniha The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"The Broken Heart".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
„Invite all men to happiness and peace,
To faith and justice rear the youthful race,
Till Truth's blest banners, o'er the regions hurl'd,
Shake tyrants from their thrones, and cheer the waking world.“
— Joel Barlow American diplomat 1754 - 1812
The Conspiracy of Kings (1792)
Kontext: Lords of themselves and leaders of mankind. On equal rights their base of empire lies,
On walls of wisdom see the structure rise;
Wide o'er the gazing world it towers sublime,
A modell'd form for each surrounding clime.
To useful toils they bend their noblest aim,
Make patriot views and moral views the same,
Renounce the wish of war, bid conquest cease,
Invite all men to happiness and peace,
To faith and justice rear the youthful race,
Till Truth's blest banners, o'er the regions hurl'd,
Shake tyrants from their thrones, and cheer the waking world.
„The world suddenly opened up, and she was coming to new realizations and a greater awareness, concerning the nature of reality, and the world, which her mortal mind had previously been unable to conceive. She smiled her radiant goddess smile and began to laugh. Her omnipresent peals of mirth resonated through the forest, seeming to echo to the edges of the universe and back. She was getting her first glimpses of the world, seen through the eyes of a goddess; the first sweet tastes of a consciousness empowered beyond all human levels of comprehension, and her spirit was in exultant bliss.“
— Alexei Maxim Russell Canadian writer 1976
from Forgotten Lore - Volume II.
„I am running for President of the United States to enable the goddess of peace to encircle within her reach all the children of this country and all the children of the world.“
— Dennis Kucinich Ohio politician 1946
Speech, Cleveland City Council (13 October 2003)
„Truth…never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.“
— John Milton English epic poet 1608 - 1674
The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce (1643), Introduction