Sarah Helen Whitman: Quotes about the night

Sarah Helen Whitman was United States poet. Explore interesting quotes on night.

Sarah Helen Whitman: 14 quotes1 like

“Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.””

Sarah Helen Whitman

Our Island of Dreams.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The summer skies are darkly blue,
The days are still and bright,
And Evening trails her robes of gold
Through the dim halls of Night.”

Sarah Helen Whitman

Summer's Call. Compare: "I heard the trailing garments of the Night / Sweep through her marble halls", Longfellow.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Raven from the dim dominions
On the Night's Plutonian shore,
Oft I hear thy dusky pinions
Wave and flutter round my door—
See the shadow of thy pinions
Float along the moonlit floor.”

Sarah Helen Whitman The Raven

The Raven (written as a counterpart to Poe's poem by the same name).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries.”

Sarah Helen Whitman

Moonrise in May.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)