...But not possess'd it" (HI.ii.26-27), but it is the speech of someone thinking of a particular person: Come, night; come, Romeo; come thou day in night;...wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night; Give me my Romeo. (III.ii.17-21)...

...imagery rises almost to conscious level by its insistent presence in almost all the memorable lines : Come night, come Romeo, come, thou day in night, For...wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back: Come, gentle night, come loving black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo, and when...

...the energies for love in her that she does not yet know, or of which she is unsure, may 'grow bold': Come, night. Come, Romeo. Come, thou day in night;...a raven's back. Come, gentle night. Come, loving, black-browed night. Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars,...

...cheeks, u With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, 15 Think true love acted simple modesty. 16 Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;...wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a ravens back. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; 20 Give me my Romeo; and,...

...my cheeks, With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold, Think true love acted simple modesty. Come night, come Romeo, come thou day in night; For...thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, Whiter than snow upon a raven's back. Come gentle night, come loving black-browed night, Give me my Romeo, and...

...over both encounters. Juliet, waiting for Romeo addresses a passionate invocation to the night sky: Come night, come Romeo, come, thou day in night; For...come, loving, black-brow'd night, Give me my Romeo. (Ill, ii, 17-21) Pyramus, in a similar plight, opines: O grim-look'd night, O night, with hue so black,...

...though I am sold, Not yet enjoy'd. (26-8) But night has more than sex and the brothel: it is also the raven's back: Come, gentle night, come, loving black-brow'd...shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars . . . (20~2) This 'gentle night' is death; both in the seventeenth century sense as orgasm (hence the...

...meeting is brilliantly devised to show their love at first sight. Juliet's conceit in her address to Night — Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars — reveals a charming whimsicality which is perfectly in character. The scene which has aroused most...

...passing light-rays. Another firework opened a mimosa parasol, and silver stars rained harmlessly down. When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the jace oj heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night. . . . A kind of soft roaring...

...my cheeks, With thy black mantle till strange love grow bold, Think true love acted simple modesty. Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;...wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when...