Midnight

Midnight

Midnight is the transition time period from one day to the next: the moment when the date changes. In the Roman time system, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise, varying according to the seasons.

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Famous quotes containing the word midnight:

    “Where have you gone? The tide is over you,
    The turn of midnight water’s over you,
    As Time is over you, and mystery,
    And memory, the flood that does not flow.”
    —Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)

    “The house had gone to bring again
    To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
    Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
    Like a pistil after the petals go.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
    Lovers, to bed; ‘tis almost fairy time.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)