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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Midnight |
| 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. Anna Letitia Barbauld—A Summer Evening’s Meditation. L. 48. | 1 |
| That hour o’ night’s black arch the keystane. Burns—Tam o’ Shanter. | 2 |
| It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. Dante—Purgatorio. Canto XV. L. 5. | 3 |
| 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. Longfellow—Bridge. | 4 |
| Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! Longfellow—Two Rivers. Pt. I. | 5 |
| 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! Lowell—Midnight. | 6 |
| ’Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon, Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven. Joaquin Miller—Ina. Sc. 2. | 7 |
| Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. Milton—Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 667. | 8 |
| The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 370. | 9 |
| Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! Horace and James Smith—Rejected Addresses. The Rebuilding. (Imitation of Southey.) | 10 |
| Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. Southey—Curse of Kehama. Pt. I. 1. | 11 |
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