Bright as does the morning star appear,
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near. [ Spenser ]

Hear how the birds, on every blooming spray,
With joyous musick wake the dawning day! [ Pope ]

The quiet night, now dappling, began to wane,
Dividing darkness from the dawning main. [ Byron ]

Like the faint streaks of light broke loose from darkness, and dawning into blushes. [ Dryden ]

Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, and the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. [ Campbell ]

Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day. [ Boyle ]

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]