Dawn
Dawn (from an Old English verb dagian "to become day") is the time that marks the beginning of the twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the presence of weak sunlight, while the sun itself is still below the horizon. Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which is the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon.
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Famous quotes containing the word dawn:
“Of how he loved high laughter and the lonely
Heart, and cursed a dissipated rime
Of weariness in a golden morning, only
To rouse a cold Helen where the dawn distils
Her bewildered beauty on feet-forgotten hills.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Who can this ambition trace,
To be each dawn perpetually journeying?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)