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Dawn: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

The third hour of drowsy morning.— H. V. iv. chorus.

The silent hour steals on, And flaky darkness breaks within the east.— R. III. v. 3.

And yon grey lines that fret the clouds, Are messengers of day.— J.C. ii. 1.

This morning, like the spirit of youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.— A.C. iv. 4.

Swift, swift, you dragons of the night!-that dawning May bare the raven's eye.— Cym. ii. ?.

But, look, the dawn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.— H. i. 1.

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his ineffectual fire.— H. i 5

Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast; And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach, ghosts wand'ring here and there. Troop home to church-yards: damned spirits all, That in cross-ways and floods have burial,— M. N. iii. 2.

Already to their wormy beds are gone. The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about— M. A. v. 3.

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night of Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light; light; And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels From forth day's path-way made by Titan's wheels.— R. J. ii. 3.

It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day— R. J. iii. 5.

Stands tip-toe on the misty mountain's top. Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. M. M. iv.