“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
“The Cinnamon Shops” http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops/shops.htm <br class="br">His father, The heavens
“The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated
Source: Everything Is Illuminated
William Julius Mickle Cumnor Hall
Stanza 1, quoted in Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821), Ch. 6. Compare: "Jove, thou regent of the skies", Alexander Pope, The Odyssey, book ii, line 42; "Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night", John Gay, Trivia, book iii; "And hail their queen, fair regent of the night", Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden, part i, canto ii, line 90.
Cumnor Hall (1784)
Lin Huiyin (1904–1955) Chinese architect and writer
(zh-CN) 一样是月明,
一样是隔山灯火,
满天的星
只使人不见,
梦似的挂起。
"Do Not Throw Away" (《别丢掉》), translated by Michelle Yeh in A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women (University of Iowa Press, 2002), p. 41
Variant translation:
The moon is still so bright;
Beyond the hills the lamp sheds the same light.
The sky besprinkled with star on star,
But I do not know where you are.
It seems
You hang above like dreams.
Xu Yuanchong, Vanished Springs: The Life and Love of a Chinese Intellectual (Vantage Press, 1999), pp. 44–45
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Sensitive Plant http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=shelley2003060601 (1820), Pt. I, st. 1
Victor J. Stenger (1935–2014) American philosopher
In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2012)
Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 60 “In Preparation for Violence” (p. 323)