MORNING QUOTES IV

quotations about morning


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Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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Romeo and Juliet


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Tags: William Shakespeare


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"

Tags: Tracy K. Smith


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


The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning life. We have it entirely in our own hands. And when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all yesterdays should be yesterdays, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient is it to know that the way we lived our yesterday has determined for us our today.

RALPH WALDO TRINE

In Tune With the Infinite


When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

Tags: John Banville


The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


The dusk drew earlier in,
The morning foreign shone--
A courteous, yet harrowing grace,
As guest who would be gone.

EMILY DICKINSON

"As imperceptibly as grief"

Tags: Emily Dickinson


Rise, happy morn, rise, holy morn,
Draw forth the cheerful day from night;
O Father, touch the east, and light
The light that shone when Hope was born.

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


Great streets of silence led away
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.

By clock 'twas morning, and for night
The bells at distance called;
But epoch has no basis here,
For period exhaled.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Void"

Tags: Emily Dickinson


Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous;
gray light streaking each bare branch,
each single twig, along one side,
making another tree, of glassy veins.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

"Five Flights Up"

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop


Dawn, thy opportunity is full! We, alas, know not the meaning of thy gorgeous page. Dazed we watch thy letters pale; cold embers, left upon the sky; Life's opportunity flickering into naught.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"

Tags: Elise Pumpelly Cabot


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

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

Tags: John Galsworthy


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!

ELEANOR FARJEON

"Morning Has Broken"


Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing

Tags: Barbara Kingsolver


In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.

LESLIE CONNOR

Waiting for Normal


But the morning is a time for exultant expressions, for then the soul awakens with all nature and rises in rapturous praise over blessings which it is our daily lot to enjoy.

J. M. H.

"Morning Meditations", The Bay View Magazine, Volume 17


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

WILLIAM STYRON

Sophie's Choice

Tags: William Styron


Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Night of the Iguana

Tags: Tennessee Williams