“Many solemn nights
Blond moon, we stand and marvel…
Sleeping our noons away”
Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet
Source: Japanese Haiku
“T was night, but night which the imperial moon,
Regal in her full beauty, turn'd to noon,
But still the noon of midnight; though the ray
Was clear and bright, it was not that of day;”
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Source: East of Midnight (1977), Chapter 2, “Full Moon” (p. 24; often repeated)
“An empty day, though clear and bright,
Is just as dark as any night.”
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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.”
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Source: Selected Poetry
“This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.”
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825) English author
A Summer's Evening Meditation.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
St. 1.
So, We'll Go No More A-Roving (1817)
“4749. The Sluggard makes his Night till Noon.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Ethel Lynn Beers (1827–1879) American writer
"Noonday Rest" (1869; published in All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems, 1879).
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41