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Scripture · Religious literature

He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term.

Muhammad

The Quran, The Koran, 31:13 · 632

★ 1.3

Scripture · Religious literature

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:16

1405 BC

★ 2.1

Song

Praised be You, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light.

St. Francis of Assisi

The Canticle of Brother Sun · 1226

★ 2.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens · 1616

★ 2.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible.

Nathaniel Lee

1679

★ 3.5

Poem

So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

1638

★ 3.6

Poem

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one.

F.W. Bourdillon

1878

★ 3.6

Novel

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett

Murphy · 1938

★ 3.6

Poem · Narrative poem

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

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