I hope in time 'twill grow into a custom That noblemen shall come with cap and knee To purchase a night's lodging of their wives. 895

-Webster,John
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he is on a street corner, in the rain, late at night, when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

-White,Theodore H(arold)
  In the NewYorkTimes, 5 Jan.

When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
^66  Leaves of Grass,'Memories of President Lincoln','When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', section1.

Come lovelyand soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
^66  Leaves of Grass,'Memories of President Lincoln','When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', section14.

He has something of the night in him.

-Widdecombe, Anne
  Of fellow Conservative Michael Howard. In the Sunday Times, (electronic edition) 11 May.

All night, this headland Lunges into the rumpling Capework of the wind.

-Wilbur, Richard
  The Mind Reader,'Sleepless at Crown Point'.

   The greatest asset that a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  BBC Radio 4 broadcast,16 Apr.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;ö Turn whereso'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

-Wordsworth,William
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza1 (published1807).

   A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

-Wycherley,William
  The CountryWife, act1, sc.1.

Had I the heavens'embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven', complete poem. Collected in TheWind Among the Reeds (1899).