Morn Quotes - 5
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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More Morn Quotes
Of horn and morn, and hark and bark,And echo's answering sounds,All poets' wit hath ever writIn dog-rel verse of hounds.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Epping Hunt, Stanza 10.
One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 641
Under the opening eyelids of the morn.
john milton— John Milton, Lycidas, line 26.
The morn! she is the source of sighs, The very face to make us sad; If but to think in other times The same calm quiet look she had.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Ode to Melancholy.
He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 1798 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', pt.7.
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'On a Drop of Dew' (published1681).
Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the Slavery of Home, man feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood....afresh dawns the morn of life...
sir richard francis burton— Journal Entry (2 December 1856)
Soon as Aurora drives away the night,
And edges eastern clouds with rosy light,
The healthy huntsman, with the cheerful horn,
Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn.
— John Gay, Rural Sports, Canto II, line 93.
Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 587.
While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before, Oft list'ning how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumb'ring morn.
john milton— Line 49. (L'Allegro (1631))
The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn.
william shakespeare— Ratcliff, Scene III
