R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me; Last night at twelve I felt immense, Today I feel like thirty cents. My eyes are blurred, my coppers hot, I'll try to eat, but I cannot. It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, grey dawn of the morning after.

-Ade, George
  The Sultan of Sulu, act 2.

   Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Parting', l.19^20.

Late at e'en, drinkin'the wine, And ere they paid the lawin', They set a combat them between, To fight it at the dawin'. 'O stayat hame, my noble lord, O stay at hame, my marrow! My cruel brother will you betray On the dowie houms o' Yarrow!'

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide.

-Ballads
'The Wife of Usher's Well'.

  And spectral dance, before the dawn, A hundred Vicars down the lawn; Curates, long dust, will come and go On lissom, clerical, printless toe; And oft between the boughs is seen The sly shade of a Rural Dean.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

Most true it is, as a wise man teaches us, that 'doubt of anysort cannot be removed except by Action.'Onwhich ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or in uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the Duty which lies nearest thee', which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

-Carlyle,Thomas
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

See amid the winter's snow, Born for us on earth below, See, the Lamb of God appears, Promised from eternal years! Hail thou ever-blesse'  d morn! Hail, redemption's happy dawn! Sing through all Jerusalem: Christ is born in Bethlehem!

-Caswall, Edward
  'See  Amid the Winter's Snow'.

The bell-rope that gathers God at dawn Dispatches me as though I dropped down the knell Of a spent day.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  'The Broken Tower', in the New Republic, 8  Jun.

   'next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims'and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn's early my country 'tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb they sons acclaim you glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  is 5,'Two, III'.

To fight for the right, to abhor the imperfect, the unjust, or the mean, to swerve neither to the right hand nor the left, to care nothing for flattery or applause or odium or abuseöit is so easy to have any of them in Indiaönever to let your enthusiasm be soured or your courage grow dim but to remember that the Almighty has placed your hand on the greatest of his ploughs, in whose furrow the nations of the future are germinating and taking shape, to drive the blade a little forward in your time and to feel that somewhere among those millions you have left, a little justice, or happiness or prosperity, a sense of manliness or moral dignity, a springof patriotism, a dawn of intellectual enlightenmentora stirringofduty whereit did not exist beforeöthat is enough, that is the Englishman's justification in India.

-Curzon (of Kedleston), Lord George Nathaniel
  Farewell speech on departing from Bombay as Viceroy of India.

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

I've heard the lilting at our yowe-milking, Lasses a-lilting before the dawn o'day; But now theyare moaning on ilka green loaning: 'The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away'. See Cockburn 224:55.

-Elliot,Jean also known as Jane Elliot
  'The Flowers of the Forest', stanza1.

Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.

-Gray,Thomas
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.98^100.

No sunöno moon! No mornöno noon No dawnöno dusköno proper time of day.

-Honorius of Autun
  'No'.

Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin'from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An'the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Mandalay'.

There was a time when the most powerful of human intellects were deluded by the gibberish of the astrologer and the alchemist† But time advances; facts accumulate; doubts arise† The highest intellects, like thetops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

-1st Baron
  'Sir  James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution in England, in1688' in the Edinburgh Review,  Jul.

I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Sea Fever'.

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Beauty'.

Happy happy time, when the white star hovers Low over dim fields fresh with blooming dew, Near the face of dawn, that draws athwart the darkness, Threading it with colour, like yewberries the yew.

-Meredith, George
Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 7. The poem was revised and republished in1878.

Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.

-Milton,John
  Of his blindness. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.22^7.