Hymn To The Night

Alba Grembi: 2018, Perspective.

"Descend with broad-winged flight,

The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair,

The best-beloved Night!"

-Hymn To The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

"I heard the trailing garments of the Night

Sweep through her marble halls!

I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light

From the celestial walls!

Thodoris Bandelis: 2018, Hidden Castletower. 

Thodoris Bandelis: 2018, Night Walk.

I felt her presence, by its spell of might,

Stoop o'er me from above;

The calm, majestic presence of the Night,

As of the one I love.

Xenia Btz: 2018, A Distant View.

I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight,

The manifold, soft chimes,

That fill the haunted chambers of the Night

Like some old poet's rhymes.

Thodoris Bandelis: 2018, Three Shades of Night.

Thodoris Bandelis: 2018, Branch Web.

From the cool cisterns of the midnight air

My spirit drank repose;

The fountain of perpetual peace flows there,--

From those deep cisterns flows.

Alba Grembi: 2018, Stairway.

O holy Night! from thee I learn to bear

What man has borne before!

Thou layest thy finger on the lips of Care,

And they complain no more.

Alba Grembi: 2018, Ticking.

Alba Grembi: 2018, Torch.

Peace! Peace! Orestes-like I breathe this prayer!

Descend with broad-winged flight,

The welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair,

The best-beloved Night!"

Hymn To The Night by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Photography by Thodoris Bandeliis, Alba Grembi, Xenia Btz.