Brown night
Retires: young day pours in apace.
Thomson.—Summer, Line 51.
Breaking the melancholy shades of night.
Prior.—Love and Friendship.
The meek-ey’d morn appears, mother of dews.
Thomson.—Summer, Line 47.
When day arises, in that sweet hour of prime.
Milton.—Book V.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!
Shakespeare.—Henry VI. Part III. Act II. Scene 1
Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountains’ tops.
Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Scene 5.