Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 1-4
"The Seed Growing Secretly".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: Tempests and windes and winter-nights
Vex not, that but One sees thee grow,
That One made all these lesser lights.
If those bright joys He singly sheds
On thee, were all met in one crown,
Both sun and stars would hide their heads;
And moons, though full, would get them down.
When Thou at Eve art Roaming, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p
Evening reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.”
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
