“And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing upon the night's calm majesty; Wrapt up in quietness, with shade and silence, My soul more closely worshippeth Thy presence; With an internal day I feel enlighten'd, And hear a voice, which biddeth me to hope.” WorldFeelsSoulNightStarsVoiceSleepSilenceDarknessLonelyTrainCalmMy SoulDesertInternalsShadeVeilsMajestyEnlighteningGloomyQuietnessMusings Book:A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies Source: A biographical sketch: the poetical meditations : and, poetical and religious harmonies
“For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.” KnowsMenSoulBirthContraryShadePoolGloomy Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
“That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.” SoulBraveAppearanceTreasureChestsGloomy Author:John Dryden