William Shakespeare on Morning
1564–1616 England
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The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
Hamlet (1600)
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
The day begins to break, and night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.
The busy day,
Wak'd by the lark, hath rous'd the ribald crows,
And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer.
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
An hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peer'd from the golden window of the east.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
As when the golden sun salutes the morn,
And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,
Gallops the zodiac in his glistening coach.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!
How well resembles it the prime of youth,
Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love.