Por todos los senderos de la noche han venido a llorar en mi lecho. ‚Fueron tantos, son tantos! Yo no se¤   cua¤  les viven, yo no se¤   cua¤  l ha muerto. Me llorare¤   a m |¤ misma para llorarlos todos. They have come from all of night's pathways to cry in my bed. They were so many, they are so many! I don't know who lives, I don't know who has died. I'll cry for myself so that I can cry for all.

-Agustini, Delmira
  El rosario de Eros,'Mis amores' ('My lovers').

The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  Lucky  Jim, ch.6.

Et toi mon coeur pourquoi bats-tu Comme un guetteur me¤  lancolique J'observe la nuit et la mort. And you my heart why do you pound Like some melancholy watchman I watch the night and death.

-Kostrowitzki
  Le Guetteur me¤ l ancolique, pre¤  face.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure. Let night come, ring out the hour, The days go by, I remain.

-Kostrowitzki
  Les  Alcools,'Le Pont Mirabeau'.

   Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Longing' (later published as 'Faded Leaves' in Poems: Second Series,1855).

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Dover Beach', stanza 4.

No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pained desert lion, who all day Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.501^4.

Still I enjoy The long sweetness of the simultaneity, yours and mine, ours and mine, The mosquitoey summer night light.

-Ashbery,John Lawrence
Shadow Train,'Here Everything Is Still Floating'.

If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.

-Baldwin,James Arthur
  'Open Letter to my Sister,  Angela Davis', in The NewYork Review of Books,7  Jan.

I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries; O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirkconnell lea!

-Ballads
'Helen of Kirkconnell', opening lines.

This ae nighte, this ae nighte, öEvery nighte and alle, Fire and fleet and candle-lighte, And Christe receive thy saule.

-Ballads
'A Lyke- Wake Dirge', opening lines.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

-Beckett, Samuel
  Waiting for Godot, act 2.

A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day.

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody'.

La mort, mon fils, est un bien pour tous les hommes; elle est la nuit de ce jour inquiet qu'on appelle la vie. Bernstein Death, my son, is a good for all; it is the night of this worrisome day that one calls life.

-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre,Jacques-Henri
  Paul et Virginie.

And God called the light Dayand the darkness he called Night. And the evening and morning were the first day.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis1:5.

Iwill not againcursetheground anymore for man'ssake; for the imagination of man is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 8:21^2.

And the L went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDExodus13:21.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:4.

   Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If Isay, Surely the darknessshall cover me; even thenight shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms139:7^12.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Peter 3:10^11.