noon of night

plural noons of night

1. archaicpoeticmidnight

   'Twas now the noon of night, and all was still, Except a hapless Rhymer and his quill.

   1806, George Gordon Byron, Soliloquy of a Bard in the Country

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   When full before him, at the noon of night, (The moon was up, and shot a gleamy light) He saw a quire of ladies in a round, That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground;

   1700, John Dryden, “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, translation of The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, lines 213–216

   Of sunken suns at eve – at noon of night, While the moon danc'd with the fair stranger light

   1833, Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf

   Synonyms: 12 a.m., noon