I must become a borrower of the night
For a dark hour or twain.
Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
All was so still, so soft, in earth and air,
You scarce would start to meet a spirit there
Secure that nought of evil could delight
To walk in such a scene, on such a night!
Lara. LORD BYRON.
Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
Friendliest to sleep and silence.
Paradise Lost, Bk. V. MILTON.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;
Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.
Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
In the dead vast and middle of the night.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and Hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
O wild and wondrous midnight,
There is a might in thee
To make the charmèd body
Almost like spirit be.
And give it some faint glimpses
Of immortality!
Midnight. J.R. LOWELL.
NOBILITY.
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Sonnet IV. J.R. LOWELL.
His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for 's power to thunder.
Coriolanus, Act iii. Sc 1. SHAKESPEARE.