Lo, thus, as prostrate, \'In the dust I write My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears.'... Yet why evoke the spectres of black night To blot the sunshine of exultant years?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang... Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the deathbed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourished by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal, Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts,... Whatsoever I did in the coal- Black night, I left my quivering prints.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I from black and he from white cloud free, And round the tent of Godlike lambs we joy,...
I'll shade him from the heat till he can bear To lean in joy upon our father's knee; And then I'll stand and stroke his silver hair, And be like him, and he will then love me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom ...which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We lay long in the immense tide Of shade and shadowy desire... And saw the dusk assail the wall, The black surge, mounting, crash the stone! Companion of this lust, we fall, I said lest we should die alone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores of its Lake T...chad, and discover the source of its Nile, perchance the Mountains of the Moon? Who knows what fertility and beauty, moral and natural, are to be found? In the Mountains of the Moon, in the Central Africa of the night, there is where all Niles have their hidden heads. The expeditions up the Nile as yet extend but to the Cataracts, or perchance to the mouth of the White Nile; but it is the black Nile that concerns us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »