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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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Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Juliet, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 1, l. 229-30 (1599).)
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And we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o' the night.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Justice Shallow, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 5, sc. 3, l. 50-1.
As they break out the wine.)
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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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It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good night.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Lady Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 2, sc. 2, l. 3-4.
A duty of the "bellman" or town means crier was to announce deaths, and the owl was thought a bird of ill omen.)
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An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, New York (1984).)
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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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In the dead waste and middle of the night.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Horatio, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 2, l. 198.
The time when Horatio saw the ghost of Hamlet's father; the waste (barren period), waist (middle), and perhaps vast (emptiness).)
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