"Bird of night" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Still the bird of night complaineth, (Now, indeed, her song is pain,) Visions of my happy hours, Do I call and call in vain? Hark! the echoes cry again, ...
— Legends and Lyrics: First Series • Adelaide Anne Procter
... they: "Aglauros calls her sisters cowards weak; "The twistings with bold hand unloosening, sees "Within an infant, and a dragon stretch'd. "The deed I tell to Pallas, and from her "My service this remuneration finds: "Driven from her presence, she my place supplies "Of favorite with the gloomy bird of night. "All other birds my fate severe may warn, "To seek not danger by officious tales. "Pallas, perhaps you think, but lightly lov'd "One whom she thus so suddenly disgrac'd. "But ask of Pallas;—she, though much enrag'd "Will yet my truth confirm. A regal maid ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... Lonely warbling bird of night! Leave thy bough and perch above The silent, dewy folds of white That screen my sleeping love. Drink the moonlight rays that fall Pure and mellow, like the beams Of starry eyes beyond my call, Far in the land of ...
— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various
... he brought one day, Of plumage gray. "O bird of Night! Why comest thou?" Said she: "Seek no relief! My name ...
— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz
... and went surly by, Without annoying me. And there were drawn Upon a heap an hundred ghastly women, Transformed with their fear, who swore they saw Men, all in fire, walk up and down the streets. And yesterday the bird of night did sit Even at noonday upon the marketplace, Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say, 'These are their reasons—they are natural,' For I believe they are portentous things Unto the climate that they ...
— The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ - A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion • James Stalker |
