Dictionary Entry

noontide

Midday, noon

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Common Phrases

sun noontideheat noontide. noontidehour noontidepress noontidemeal noontidenoontide greatnoontide hot

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Poetry examples for “noontide”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Before the sun has power
To scorch the world up in his noontide hour.

’Twas noontide of summer,
And midtime of night,

A part of all; and in the last he lay
Reposing from the noontide sultriness,
Couched among fallen columns, in the shade

Childe Harold basked him in the Noontide sun,[r]
Disporting there like any other fly;

I sit upon the sands alone,--
The lightning of the noontide ocean _15
Is flashing round me, and a tone

With stifling beams on these retreats,
Than noontide twilights which snow makes
With tempest of the blinding flakes.

And though the fields look rough with hoary dew,
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew
The buttercups, the little children's dower

In fold on fold of the purple fine,
That neither noontide nor starshine
Nor moonlight cold which maketh mad, 35

Then I tuned my harp--took off the lilies we twine round its chords
Lest they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide--those 35
sunbeams like swords!

’Tis the sublime of man,
Our noontide Majesty, to know ourselves
Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole!