Darker

Famous quotes containing the word darker:

“Sun-girt City! thou hast been
Ocean’s child, and then his queen;
Now is come a darker day,
And thou soon must be his prey,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“One night, under cover of darkness, and further concealed in a most cunning disguisement, a desperate burglar slid into his happy home, and robbed them all of everything. And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family’s heart. It was the Bottle Conjurer! Upon the opening of that fatal cork, forth flew the fiend, and shrivelled up his home.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)