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O grim-looked night, O night with hue so black,
O night which ever art when day is not!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 5, sc. 1, l. 170-1.
As Pyramus, addressing the night.)
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Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
Night of south winds! night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 21, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Wedding-Wind.")
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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning and the noontide night.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Brakenbury, in Richard III, act 1, sc. 4, l. 76-7.
Commenting on Clarence, whose terrible dream kept him awake all night.)
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Saturday night was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.
(Nicholas Pileggi, U.S. screenwriter, and Martin Scorsese. Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), GoodFellas, voiceover as gangsters and girlfriends take in the show at the Copacabana (1990).)
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Oh, there had once been night the first,
But this was night the last.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Ends.")
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O weary night, O long and tedious night,
Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Helena, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 3, sc. 2, l. 431-2.
"Abate" means cut short, abridge.)
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As long as skies are blue, and fields are green
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. Adonais (Fr. XXI). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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The night is of the color
Of a woman's arm:
Night, the female,
Obscure,
Fragrant and supple,
Conceals herself.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Six Significant Landscapes.")
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The last Night that She lived
It was a Common Night
Except the Dying—this to Us
Made Nature different
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. The last Night that She lived (l. 1-4). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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