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day and night

All the time; round the clock; unceasingly.

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Poetry examples for “day and night”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Love hails it, day and night,
The sweetest thing that may be

Mine eyelids and eyesight
Feed on thee day and night
Like lips of fire.

What helps my haste? what to have ta'en small rest?
What day and night to travel in her quest? 10
If standing here I can by no means get

And so His Semblance is, Who, every hour,
By day and night,
Buildeth new bulwarks 'gainst the Infinite.

Is she who boasts her more than mortal chaste!'
'Find'st thou me worthy, then, by day and night,
But of this fond indignity, delight?'

Of ether, as a bridge.
Beneath, the tides of day and night
With flame and blackness ridge

I went up and down the streets
Here and there by day and night,
Through all hours of the night caring for the poor who were sick.

ALL day and night, save winter, every weather,
Above the inn, the smithy, and the shop,

’Tis he, the gentle anchorite,
Who listens for them day and night;
But most he hears them in the dawn,

This dog watched beside a bed
Day and night unweary—
Watched within a curtained room,