“There never was night that had no morn.”
"The Golden Gate", Mulock's Poems, New and Old (1888), this has sometimes been misquoted as There was never a night that had no morn.
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James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882) Scottish writer (1834-1882)
Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
William Blake book Songs of Experience
Source: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Source: Songs of Experience
“A sleepless spring night:
Yearning for what I never had
And for what never was.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) African-American writer
Haiku: This Other World (1998)
“Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?”
Ellen Willis (1941–2006) writer, activist
From a conversation with Alice Echols, quoted by Echols in "Ellen Willis, 1941-2006" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/ellen_willis, The Nation (10 November 2006)
Ono no Komachi (825–900) Japanese poet
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 142
