Veiling Quotes
More Veiling Quotes
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balmFor eyes grown weary of the garish day!Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments gray,Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palmThe poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
julia caroline dorr— Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like Heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— St. XXX (Adonais (1821))
Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balm For eyes grown weary of the garish day! Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments gray, Thy veiling shadows, bearing in thy palm The poppy-seeds of slumber, deep and calm.
— Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
