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Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the earthly never cease? Unholy activity consumes the angel-visit of the Night. Will the time never come when Love's hidden sacrifice shall burn eternally? To the Light a season was set; but everlasting and boundless is the dominion of the Night. -- Endless is the duration of sleep.
tenderly beloved, the gracious sun of the Night. Now am I awake, for now am I thine and mine. Thou hast made me know the Night, and brought her to me to be my life; thou hast made of me a man. Consume my body with the ardour of my soul, that I, turned to finer air, may mingle more closely with thee, and then our bridal night endure for ever. II.
Hymns to the Night (Hymnen an die Nacht) is a set of six prose poems written by the German Romantic poet Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) and published in 1800. The poems were written in response to the death of Novalis' fiance, Sophie von Kuehn, in 1797.
May 10, 2022 · Hymns to the night. by. Novalis, 1772-1801. Publication date. 1984. Publisher. New Paltz, N.Y. : McPherson. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
Night and darkness bring the keys to our most infinite mysteries. In the third and most personal hymn, Novalis recalls standing at the foot of Sophie’s grave with nowhere to turn, consumed in...
Hymns to the Night is a strange, captivating poem, part elegy for a dead teenage lover, part folktale, part murky mystical paean to invisible forces that take on worldly forms. The Night, Novalis says, is not just darkness and moonshine.
Thou, soul of the Night, heavenly Slumber, didst come upon me; the region gently upheaved itself; over it hovered my unbound, newborn spirit. The mound became a cloud of dust, and through the cloud I saw the glorified face of my beloved.
