... into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split... from my life with no flag, no belly, no cry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;... And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,... dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike.... Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild, then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heav'n, her starry train: But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Black water, smooth above the weir Like starry velvet in the night,... Though ruffled once, would soon appear The same as ever to the sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,... The night above the dingle starry,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, i...s more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »