
— Isaac Watts English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674 - 1748
Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
Source: Les Misérables
— Isaac Watts English hymnwriter, theologian and logician 1674 - 1748
Psalm 90 st. 4.
1710s, "Our God, our help in ages past" (1719)
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, book Demon in My View
Source: Demon in My View
— Loreena McKennitt Canadian musician and composer 1957
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
„It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 132.
„Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.“
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus<br/>rumoresque senum severiorum<br/>omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
Carmina
Context: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
„The sun did not rise, it overflowed.“
— Ray Bradbury, book Dandelion Wine
Source: Dandelion Wine (1957), p. 211
— Carole King Nasa 1942
You've Got a Friend · performance with James Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mNDS5rIRU · performance by James Taylor (1971) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7RPCFfudmU · performance with Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan & Shania Twain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJPgxEi2BM8 · Boston Strong performance with James Taylor (30 May 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZI3kLrHK80
Song lyrics, Tapestry (1971)
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
— Henry Wotton English ambassador 1568 - 1639
On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia, stanza 1 (1624). In some versions "moon" replaces "sun". This was printed with music as early as 1624, in Est's "Sixth Set of Books", for example.