Midnight Lullaby

Famous quotes containing the words midnight and/or lullaby:

    “What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
    O, ‘tis the ravished nightingale!
    “Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu,” she cries,
    And still her woes at midnight rise.
    Brave prick-song! who is’t now we hear?
    None but the lark so shrill and clear;”
    —John Lyly (1553–1606)

    “The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.”
    —James Fenton (b. 1949)