<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359146" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Night And Sleep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How strange at night to wake<br>And watch, while others sleep,<br>Till sight and hearing ache<br>For objects that may keep<br>The awful inner sense<br>Unroused, lest it should mark<br>The life that haunts the emptiness<br>And horror of the dark!<br>How strange at night the bay<br>Of dogs, how wild the note<br>Of cocks that scream for day,<br>In homesteads far remote;<br>How strange and wild to hear<br>The old and crumbling tower,<br>Amid the darkness, suddenly<br>Take tongue and speak the hour! <br>Albeit the love-sick brain<br>Affects the dreary moon,<br>Ill things alone refrain<br>From life's nocturnal swoon:<br>Men melancholy mad,<br>Beasts ravenous and sly,<br>The robber, and the murderer,<br>Remorse, with lidless eye.<br>The nightingale is gay,<br>For she can vanquish night;<br>Dreaming, she sings of day<br>Notes that make darkness bright;<br>But when the refluent gloom<br>Saddens the gaps of song,<br>Men charge on her the dolefulness,<br>And call her crazed with wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Coventry+Patmore">Coventry Patmore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359146" data-title="Night And Sleep de Coventry Patmore" data-description="How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, Till sight and hearing ache For objects that may keep The awful inner sense Unroused, lest it should mark The life that haunts the emptiness And horror of the dark! How strange at night t..."></div> </div> </div>

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