Darkness Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Darkness


Dark as pitch. Bunyan—Pilgrim’s Progress. Pt. I.	1
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish’d; darkness had no need Of aid from them—she was the Universe. Byron—Darkness.	2
Darkness which may be felt. Exodus. X. 21.	3
Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. Longfellow—Evangeline. Pt. II. V. L. 108.	4
Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world. Joaquin Miller—From Sea to Sea. St. 4.	5
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 62.	6
Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man had power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 144.	7
The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Tempest. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 64.	8
And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro’ nature, moulding men. Tennyson—In Memoriam. CXXIV.	9