morning-land

Definitions

The Orient; the East.

dated, poetic

Examples

“Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids. […] Far in Morning Land⟳ I wandered / Where the summers never cease, / And Romance's golden waters / Ever run⟳ and murmur peace.”

“Still the old leaven remains behind: here, as elsewhere in the “Morning-land,” you cannot hold⟳ your own⟳ without employing the voie de fait.”

“Elsewhere he speaks of the “fresh air of the East,” the people in morning-land as living “at the very source of being,” among whom “doubts were few and broad was truth.” Thus the poet took up the East as more than a mere vesture […]”

“In this morning-land there is no room for worldly thoughts. See⟳ the Brahmins sitting under the mat umbrellas by the river-bank, looking out across the sunlit river into infinities of space!”

“Even in modern times, the influence⟳ of this enchantment has led some learned and enthusiastic writers to describe⟳ India as the primal source of all knowledge and culture, the radiant morning-land of human civilization.”

“The Evening-Land (the West) embodies in itself the Morning-land; therefore both have⟳ a world-historic sense⟳.”

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