Careful Words

noon (n.)

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,

Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse

Without all hope of day!

John Milton (1608-1674): Samson Agonistes. Line 80.

The moon of Mahomet

Arose, and it shall set;

While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,

The cross leads generations on.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Hellas. Line 221.

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,

No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day,

 .   .   .   .   .

No road, no street, no t' other side the way,

 .   .   .   .   .

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,

No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.

Thomas Hood (1798-1845): November.

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,

And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.

Mrs Barbauld (1743-1825): A Summer's Evening Meditation.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place

(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,

Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon,

Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close,

And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven

Cries out, "Where is it?"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Fears in Solitude.

Fair daffadills, we weep to see

You haste away so soon:

As yet the early rising sun

Has not attained his noon.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): To Daffadills.

From morn

To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,—

A summer's day; and with the setting sun

Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742.