Crossword-Solution: NOCTURN 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Passing surmisal, He hammered, He wrought me, From curled silver vapour, To lust of His mind:— Thou could’st not have thought me! So purely, so palely, Tinily, surely, Mightily, frailly, Insculped and embossed, With His hammer of wind, And His graver of frost.’ NOCTURN I walk, I only, Not I only wake; Nothing is, this sweet night, But doth couch and wake For its love’s sake; Everything, this sweet night, Couches with its mate.

The wire sang on overhead with dying falls and melodious rises that invited him to follow; while above the wire rode the stars in their courses, the low nocturn of the former seeming to be the voices of those stars, ‘Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim.’ Recalling himself from these reflections Somerset decided to follow the lead of the wire.

Domini thought that perhaps they dared not sing lest they might wake the sun from its golden reveries, but afterwards, when she knew the garden better, she often heard them twittering with a subdued, yet happy, languor, as if joining in a nocturn upon the edge of sleep.

The most popular and gracious form of Provencal poetry was the nocturn, sung by the lover at night at the door or under the window of his mistress.

Across the sleeping lake hurried a north wind, on its long journey to blow open the snowy camellias folded close in the heart of the South, and under his winged sandals the waters crimped, rippled, swelled into wavelets that played their minor adagio in nature's nocturn, as their foam fingers fell on the pebbles that fringed the beach.