night-piece

Webster is the Gherardo della Notte of his day, and himself calls his "Vittoria Corombona" a "night-piece."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Various

Pope thought "the most beautiful night-piece that can be found in poetry."

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

He has written a Nocturne that gets farther from being a mere imitation of Chopin than almost any night-piece written since the Pole appropriated that form bodily from John Field and made it his own.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

_Vittoria Corombona_ is described in the old editions as "a night-piece," and it should, indeed, be acted by the shuddering light of torches, and with the cry of the screech-owl to punctuate the speeches.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

_Vittoria Corombona_ is described in the old editions as "a night-piece," and it should, indeed, be {135} acted by the shuddering light of torches, and with the cry of the screech-owl to punctuate the speeches.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

The glorious night-piece in Psalm viii., and its companion day-piece in Psalm xix., may bear the impress of the shepherd life; which is idealised and sanctified for ever in the immortal sweetness of Psalm xxiii.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII Alexander Maclaren 1868

The eighth psalm is a companion picture, a night-piece, which, like the former, speaks of many an hour of lonely brooding below the heavens, whether its composition fall within this early period or no.

The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

I've read thy soul's fair night-piece, and have seen

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

I've read thy soul's fair night-piece, and have seen

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845

Agincourt forms a most admirable night-piece, are intended to keep the spectators constantly in mind, that the peculiar grandeur of the actions described cannot be developed on a narrow stage, and that they must, therefore, supply, from their own imaginations, the deficiencies of the representation.

Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel 1806