A Night-Piece, poem by William Wordsworth:

A Night-Piece

Poem by William Wordsworth.

The sky is overcast
With a continuous cloud of texture close,
Heavy and wan, all whitened by the Moon,
Which through that veil is indistinctly seen,
A dull, contracted circle, yielding light
So feebly spread, that not a shadow falls,
Chequering the ground – from rock, plant, tree, or tower.
At length a pleasant instantaneous gleam
Startles the pensive traveller while he treads
His lonesome path, with unobserving eye
Bent earthwards; he looks up – the clouds are split
Asunder, – and above his head he sees
The clear Moon, and the glory of the heavens.
There, in a black-blue vault she sails along,
Followed by multitudes of stars, that, small
And sharp, and bright, along the dark abyss
Drive as she drives: how fast they wheel away,
Yet vanish not! – the wind is in the tree,
But they are silent; – still they roll along
Immeasurably distant; and the vault,
Built round by those white clouds, enormous clouds,
Still deepens its unfathomable depth.
At length the Vision closes; and the mind,
Not undisturbed by the delight it feels,
Which slowly settles into peaceful calm,
Is left to muse upon the solemn scene.

Recommended reading:

William Wordsworth Selected Poems

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Photograph:

Night Light (2023), by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Wind Gusts Late Autumn

by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

Carson McCullers, on writing:

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

- Carson McCullers.

On this day in television history - Justified (2010 & 2011):

Justified

Season 1. Episode 4.

Episode entitled: Long in the Tooth.

Released April 6, 2010.

Directed by Adam Arkin.

Written by Graham Yost, Chris Provenzano and Wendy Calhoun.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Alan Ruck, Michele Nordin, Lance Barber, Brian Goodman, Brandon Keener, David Warshofsky, Clarence Williams III, Carla Jimenez, Chalo González, Eddie Zamora, Rico E. Anderson, Bert Belasco, Kelly Gullett, Ivo Nandi, Jennifer Lutheran, Alejandro Furth, Daniela Aflalo, Jeffrey Jones.

Justified

Season 2. Episode 9.

Episode entitled: Brother’s Keeper.

Released April 6, 2011.

Directed by Tony Goldwyn.

Written by Graham Yost, Taylor Leonard, Benjamin Cavell and VJ Boyd.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Natalie Zea, Walton Goggins, Margo Martindale, Jeremy Davies, Kaitlyn Dever, Brad William Henke, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Mark Colson, Peter Murnik, Rebecca Creskoff, Matthew Fahey, Ryan Kiser, Laura Meadows, Jared A. Robinson, Jon Schueler.

On this day in movie history - Dolan’s Cadillac (2009):

Dolan’s Cadillac

directed by Jeff Beesley,

written by Richard Dooling,

based on the novella by Stephen King,

was released in the United States on April 6, 2010.
Music by James Mark Stewart.

Cast:

Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley, Greg Bryk, Aidan Devine, Al Sapienza, Karen LeBlanc, Cory Generoux, Vivian Ng, Patrick Bird, Eugene Clark, Max Keene, Robert Benz, Tim Allen, Amy Matysio, Tony Munch, Darla Biccum, Simon Chin, Sharmaine Yeoh, Amy Martin, Steven P. Park, Jonathan Lim, Melany Burant, Kevin Deon, Rob Hoskins.

On this day in movie history - Impulse (1990):

Impulse

directed by Sondra Locke,

written by Leigh Chapman,

based on a story by John DeMarco,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1990.
Music by Michel Colombier.

Cast:

Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Nicholas Mele, Eli Danker, Charles McCaughan, Lynne Thigpen, Shawn Elliott, Angelo Tiffe, Christopher Lawford, Nick Savage, Dan Bell, Tom Dahlgren, Daniel Quinn, David L. Crowley, Mark Rolston, Russell Curry, Pete Antico, Karl Anthony Smith, Paul Acerno, Maria Rangel, Don Ruffin, Cliff McLaughlin, Paul A. Calabria, Valente Rodriguez, Ronald L. Colby, Robert Phalen, Douglas Rowe, Wendy Gordon, Jerry Dunphy, Jerry Martinez, Peder Melhuse, Sorin Serene Pricopie, Thomas Rosales Jr., Elaine Kagan, Michael McCleery, James Edgcomb, J. Michael Flynn.

On this day in movie history - China Lake (1983):

China Lake

directed and written by Robert Harmon,

based on a story by Robert Harmon and Beth Tate,

was released in the United States on April 6, 1983.
Music by David Gibney.

Cast:

Charles Napier, William Sanderson, Mickey Jones, Gilmer McCormick, Lindsey Fields, James Luisi, Ed Brodow, Michael Ray Lloyd, Jeanne Jarvis, Enoch Anderson, Stephen Barns, David Breaux, William Calkins, Harley Corber, John Cuellar, William Fair, Michel François, Herman Graham Jr., Herbert Johnson, Charlie-Olisa Kaine, Kenneth Martin, Willie Martinez, William Meadows, Charles Meshack, Cameron Moss, Mario Peluso, Van Pettigrew, Charlie Pryor, Jeff Reed, Ringo Rigby, Ed Stanton, Jack Tanner, Frank Tinelli, Walter Vierra, John Woodson, Rocky Yost, Jeff Artis, Dan Bourguignon, Diane Frank, Doreece Hadorn, Claudia Harrington, Michael Harrison, Roger Jackson, Olu Okekante, Chuck Waltz.