"Midsummer day" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here! How I could pass Life in a long midsummer day, My feet confined to a plot of grass, My eyes from ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning
... sounds thriftless; but in Finland, in the summer, it is very hot and dry; in fact, the three or four months of summer are really summer in all its glory. It is all daylight and there is no night, so that June, July, and August seem one perpetual midsummer day. For travelling or country rides, the Finland student wears a small linen cover over his white velvet cap, which is made to fix on so neatly that the stranger does not at first detect it is a cover at all. In the winter, the white cap is laid aside, and a black velvet ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
... grasses and pine burrs, and crooning to the just Aristides, who sat humbly at her feet, one of the negro melodies of her younger life. It was perhaps the influence of the season, or the memory of this sylvan enjoyment, which caused Aristides, one midsummer day, ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte
... were straightway chosen, as proper men as were ever seen, and on midsummer day they marched forth ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)
... grasshopper began with a sudden shrill note which grew drowsy toward the close as if he were too lazy and hot to complete it. Over the sunburnt fields shimmered the heated air. I seemed to be the only living, moving thing; the intense hush, the high noon of the midsummer day interfused my whole being so that I hardly dared to step for fear of disturbing the universal repose. It oppressed me with a sense of loneliness. A wagon coming along the road broke the spell and all things were restored ...
— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee
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