Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 237.
William C. Dement (1928) American sleep researcher
“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”
Simon R. Green (1955) British writer
Source: Drinking Midnight Wine
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
Good-Night http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_percy/complete-works-of-shelley/133/ (1819)
John of the Cross (1542–1591) Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
O guiding night! O night more lovely than the dawn!
O night that has united the Lover with his beloved, transforming the beloved in her Lover.
Variant translation by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez (1991)
Oh night thou was my guide
Oh night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other.
Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt (1994)
Dark Night of the Soul
Jim Steinman (1947) American musician
"Bad for Good"
Bad for Good (1981)
Context: For the good of believing in a life after birth
For the good of your body so bright
For the good of the search for some heaven on earth
For the good of one hell of a night, for
the good of one hell of a night.