“Earth, left silent by the wind of night,
Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.”
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
"December".
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
“At the height of their madness
The night winds pause,
Recollecting themselves;
But no lull in these wars.”
The Armies of the Wilderness, Pt. II, st. 5
Battle Pieces: And Aspects of the War (1860)
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The night winds pause,
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But no lull in these wars." by Herman Melville?
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891Related quotes
“To be a poet is to be lulled by the wind,
To follow the moon in dreams, and drift with the clouds.”
Xuân Diệu (1916–1985) Vietnamese poet
As quoted in "Shattered Identities and Contested Images: Reflections of Poetry and History in 20th-Century Vietnam" by Neil Jamieson, in Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1992, p. 86, and in Understanding Vietnam by Neil L. Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), <small>ISBN 978-0520916586</small>, p. 161
“There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
And reticence behind.”
Bliss Carman (1861–1929) author
At the Granite Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.”
Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 407)
