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And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

Dark as pitch.

The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them--she was the Universe.

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.

Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world.

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.

And out of darkness came the hands That reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Even a small star shines in the darkness.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.