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Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features
(Countee Cullen (1903-1946), U.S. poet. Heritage (l. 107-108). . .
My Soul's High Song; the Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. É Gerald Early, ed. (1991) Doubleday.)
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and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark pages.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "To the Reader.")
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Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill.
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. In a Dark Time (l. 19-21). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark—a shining space
With the grave's narrowness, though not its peace.
(Robert Graves (1895-1985), British poet. Sick Love (l. 10-12). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark....
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "East Coker.")
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For like a mole I journey in the dark,
A-travelling along the underground
(John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. Thirty Bob a Week (l. 13-14).
OAEL-2. Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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A grief without a pant, void, dark, and drear,
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. Dejection; an Ode (l. 21). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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Why look in the dark for light?
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 161, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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What visions in the dark of light!
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Company, p. 59, Grove Press (1980).)
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dark
presences slowly
focus
revelation of
tulip blacks, delicate
browns
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A March.")
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