James Thomson Quotes

Yet I strode on austere; No hope could have no fear.

As I came through the desert thus it was, As I came through the desert: All was black, In heaven no single star, on earth no track; A brooding hush without a stir or note; The air so thick it clotted in my throat.

The City is of Night; perchance of Death, But certainly of Night.

The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet Sleep is not for the weary brain; The pitiless hours like years and ages creep, A night seems term less hell.

As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above that plain Come flying on our track.

There studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty dead.