“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”

— Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!" by Aeschylus?

Aeschylus photo

Aeschylus119

ancient Athenian playwright -525–-456 BC

Related quotes

“The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews.”

James Thomson (poet) The Seasons

Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 47.

“Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple is not above His Master." There may be weeping that shall endure for a night, but joy shall come in the morning. If the night cometh, so also the morning, "a morning without clouds," the morning of an eternal day.”

Mark Hopkins (educator) (1802–1887) American educationalist and theologian

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.

“His bow, a light burden for glad shoulders, the boy Hylas bears.”
Tela puer facilesque umeris gaudentibus arcus gestat Hylas.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica, Book I, Lines 109–110

“You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the maddest merriest day,
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

" The May Queen http://home.att.net/%7ETennysonPoetry/tmq.htm", st. 1 (1832)

“Mother Night and May The Darkness Be Merciful!”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

“There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”

Solomon (-990–-931 BC) king of Israel and the son of David

[Proverbs, 10:1, 9]

“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

“We were running with the night;
Playing in the shadows.
Just you and I,
Till the morning light.”

Lionel Richie (1949) American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor

Running with the Night, co-written with Cynthia Weil.
Song lyrics, Can't Slow Down (1983)

“For children, father is a luxurious item, - just like beans for the horse…. but mother is everything for the child. The child cannot bear separation from his mother even for a minute.”

Premchand (1880–1936) Hindi writer

In his novel Ghar Jamai quoted in page= 92.
Portrayal of Women in Premchands Stories A Critique

Related topics