Each window like a pill'ry appears,

With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

An hour before the worshipp'd sun

Peered forth the golden window of the east.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun,

Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun,

Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock,

"Are the weans in their bed? for it's nou ten o'clock."

William Miller (1810-1872): Willie Winkie.