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Midnight Quotes
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Is there not
A tongue in every star that talks with man,
And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Author: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Source: A Summer Evening's Meditation (l. 48)
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That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Tam o' Shanter
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It was evening here,
But upon earth the very noon of night.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Purgatorio (canto XV, l. 5)
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I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose over the city,
Behind the dark church tower.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Bridge
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Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!
The frontier town and citadel of night!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Two Rivers (pt. I)
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O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmed body
Almost like spirit be,
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Midnight
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'Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon,
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
Author: Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)
Source: Ina (sc. 2)
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Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 667)
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The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theseus at V, i)
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Midnight, yet not a nose
From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!
Author: Horace Smith and James Smith
Source: Rejected Addresses--The Rebuilding, (imitation of Southey)
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Midnight, and yet no eye
Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1)
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