"Mirk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they reached the open way, Full free the rein he cast; Oh, never through the mirk midnight Rode man ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... secret That courtiers dinna ken: What is the greatest bliss That the tongue o' man can name? 'Tis to woo a bonnie lassie When the kye comes hame. When the kye comes hame, When the kye comes hame, 'Tween the gloamin and the mirk, When ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various
... Fafnir's bane, And winds about his war-helm and mingles with his hair, But nought his raiment dusketh or dims his glittering gear; Then it fails and fades and darkens till all seems left behind, And dawn and the blaze is swallowed in mid-mirk stark and blind." ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... ride 'mid mirk and fire, Unfearing din and death, Her eyes upflaming like a pyre, Her fearless ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... kept unfalteringly; but her heart shook her, and she gasped as the Convent bomb proof neared in sight. She had wrought much and suffered more of late, and she knew herself less strong than she had been. When the blue light that hung from a post by the ladder-hole blinked "Home" through the mirk of a night of thin rain and mist-shrouded stars, she knew infinite relief. Her great eyes were as wild and strained as a hunted deer's, and her bosom heaved with her panting breaths. She paused a moment to regain her composure before she ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves |
