MORNING QUOTES III

quotations about morning

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my f***ed up little life.

CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

Empty Roads & Broken Bottles


On, on we went, till at last the east began to blush like the cheek of a girl. Then there came faint rays of primrose light, that changed presently to golden bars, through which the dawn glided out across the desert. The stars grew pale and paler still, till at last they vanished; the golden moon waxed wan, and her mountain ridges stood out against her sickly face like the bones on the cheek of a dying man. Then came spear upon spear of light flashing far away across the boundless wilderness, piercing and firing the veils of mist, till the desert was draped in a tremulous golden glow, and it was day.

H. RIDER HAGGARD

King Solomon's Mines


An hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peer'd from the golden window of the east.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime
Advancing, sow'd the earth with Orient pearl.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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The morning is like a window, the day like a wall, the night like a mirror.

CHANG HSI-KUO

The City Trilogy


I am not a Sunday morning inside four walls
with clean blood
and organized drawers.
I am the hurricane setting fire to the forests
at night when no one else is alive
or awake

CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON

The Glass Child


Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

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When Dawn strides out to wake a dewy farm
Across green fields and yellow hills of hay
The little twittering birds laugh in his way
And poise triumphant on his shining arm.
He bears a sword of flame but not to harm
The wakened life that feels his quickening sway
And barnyard voices shrilling "It is day!"
Take by his grace a new and alien charm.
But in the city, like a wounded thing
That limps to cover from the angry chase,
He steals down streets where sickly arc-lights sing,
And wanly mock his young and shameful face;
And tiny gongs with cruel fervor ring
In many a high and dreary sleeping place.

JOYCE KILMER

"Alarm Clocks"

Tags: Joyce Kilmer


I have always disliked the morning, it is too responsible a time, with the daylight demanding that it be 'faced' and (usually when I wake for I wake late) with the sun already up and in charge of the world, with little hope of anyone usurping or challenging its authority. A shot of light in the face of a poor waking human being and another slave limps wounded into the light-occupied territory.

JANET FRAME

Daughter Buffalo


The bright incarnate spirit of the Morn.

ALFRED AUSTIN

Madonna's Child

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Daylight appears just about to rise
To its feet, like a guest
Who's sat all night
Keeping time to lively music.

TRACY K. SMITH

"Serenade"

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Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

SARAH JOSEPHA HALE

"Summer Morning"

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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

EDWARD FITZGERALD

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

EDWARD FITZGERALD

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to George Washington Parke Custis, January 7, 1798

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Another morning soon shall rise,
Another day salute our eyes,
As smiling and as fair as she,
And make as many promises;
But do not thou
The tale believe,
They're sisters all,
And all deceive.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

"The Promise of the Dawn"

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Morn,
Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand
Unbarr'd the gates of light.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of Dews.

JAMES THOMSON

"Summer", The Seasons

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This was not judgement day -- only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.

WILLIAM STYRON

Sophie's Choice

Tags: William Styron


Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Hobbit

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