Novalis' poems are deep and luminous testimonies of a spiritual eroticism. For this poet, nothing was more painful than the idea of being 'separated', alienated from union. Separated from his beloved Sophie von Kühn, who died young. United with the spirit of the deceased. Alienated by critical insight into the 'true conditions'. His 'Hymns to the Night' are songs to the bride of the night. Novalis placed his 'inner strings' in the night like the Aeolian harp in the wind. And what was heard? Melancholy and hope for a bridal night with the night bride, which the self of the 'Hymns' realizes in the form of an 'inexhaustible dream'.