William Blake: Quotes about the night

William Blake was English Romantic poet and artist. Explore interesting quotes on night.
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“The moon like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight,
Sits and smiles on the night.”

William Blake Night

Night, st. 1
1780s, Songs of Innocence (1789–1790)

“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
in the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

William Blake

St. 1
1790s, The Tyger (1794)

“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”

William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41

“Every night, and every morn,
Some to misery are born.
Every morn, and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to endless night.”

William Blake book Songs of Experience

Source: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Source: Songs of Experience

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:”

William Blake book Songs of Experience

The Sick Rose, plate 39.
Source: Songs of Experience (1794)
Context: p>O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.</p

“And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.”

William Blake

“My specter around me night and day
Like a wild beast guards my way,
My emanation far within
Weeps incessantly for my sin.”

William Blake

My Specter, st. 1
1800s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804)

“God appears and god is light
To those poor souls who dwell in night
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 129

“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.”

William Blake A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

“Like a fiend in a cloud,
With howling woe,
After night I do crowd,
And with night will go;
I turn my back to the east,
From whence comforts have increased;
For light doth seize my brain
With frantic pain.”

William Blake

Mad Song, st. 3
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)

“This cabinet is formed of gold
And pearl and crystal shining bright,
And within it opens into a world
And a little lovely moony night.”

William Blake

The Crystal Cabinet, st. 2
1800s, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805)

“Trembling I sit day and night, my friends are astonish’d at me.
Yet they forgive my wanderings, I rest not from my great task!
To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes
Of Man inwards into the Worlds of Thought: into Eternity
Ever expanding in the Bosom of God. the Human Imagination”

William Blake

Source: 1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 1, plate 5, lines 16-20 The Words of Blake

“O Rose thou art sick.
The invisible worm,
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.”

William Blake The Sick Rose

The Sick Rose, plate 39.
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)