Midnight

Solar midnight is the time opposite to solar noon, when the Sun is closest to the nadir, and the night is equidistant from dusk and dawn. Due to the advent of time zones, which regularize time across a range of meridians, and daylight saving time, solar midnight rarely coincides with 12 midnight on the clock. Solar midnight depends on longitude and time of the year rather than on time zone. In ancient Roman timekeeping, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise (i.e., solar midnight)

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"Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."

"That hour o' night's black arch the keystane."

"It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night."

"I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour, And the moon rose over the city, Behind the dark church tower."

"Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"

"O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality!"

"'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven."

"Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence."

"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time."

"Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!"

"Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep."