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Calendar.

Century.

Day.

Decade.

Eon/Aeon.

Era:
Early in the era of the pause button - Dan Chiasson "Tackle Football"

Every era of hibernation - Mai Der Vang "Out of Research Into Reveries"

Shaped an Era's golden height - George Martin "Shelley"

Fortnight:
Claiming the right to live another fortnight - Alice Dunbar-Nelson "Snow in October" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]

In a fortnight would set East and West in a flame - "A Peep into the Whig Penny Post-Bag" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXIV, v.LIX, Feb. 1846]

Half Hour:
One half hour of the long twenty-four - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto I"

Hour.

Instant.

Interlude:
Murmuring the sea's song for an interlude - Caris Brooke "[Girdled with gold my little lady's bower]"

Allowed the wind its interludes - Chris Dombrowski "They Knew Each Leaf Contained the Rain and Sun"

Interlude of nearly translucent slices - Erica Funkhouser "My Father's Lunch"

Whistling interludes of death - E.J. Pratt "The Conclusion of 'Rachel'"

Kalpas:
A palace lake is ash among the kalpas - Lu Yu "Light Rain" transl. by David Hinton

Millennium/Millennia.

Millisecond:
To count milliseconds by watching a brook run - dg nanouk okpik "For-The-Spirits-Who-Have-Rounded-The-Bend IIVAQSAAT"

Minute.

Moment.

Month.

Nanosecond:
A nanosecond flowers into eternity - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

Period.

Season.

Second.

Week.

Year.


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