By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining…

Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

— J. R. R. Tolkien

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose…

— Charles Dickens

“She is like the morning," he said. "With that golden hair, those blue eyes, and that fresh bloom on her cheek, she is like…

— Charles Dickens

“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered…

— George MacDonald

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

— John Cheever

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when…

— Richard Ford

“It was a beautiful Indian summer morning and perfect for savoring a few extra minutes in bed. There was a breeze blowing through my…

— Nancy B. Brewer

In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes,…

— Patrick Carman

I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August,…

— John Constable

“in a still, delicious room, with the summer morning sunshine”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Let us go, then, exploring, this summer morning, when all are adoring the plum blossom and the bee.”

— Virginia Woolf

“It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man *would* have been happier…

— Terry Pratchett