Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
The Indian Serenade http://www.poetry-archive.com/s/the_indian_serenade.html (1819), st. 1
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet
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.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Source: The Temple (1633), The Elixir, Lines 1-4
Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
"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.
David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) Scottish physician and writer
When Thou at Eve art Roaming, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Anne Brontë book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
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
John Keble (1792–1866) English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement
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.”
Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur