The air is perfectly quiescent and all is stillness, as if Nature, after her exertions during the Summer, were now at rest. John Bradbury (1817)
Sometimes the rain is followed by an interval of calm and warmth which is called the Indian Summer; its characteristics are a tranquil atmosphere and general smokiness. Up to this epoch the approaches of winter are doubtful; it arrives about the middle of November, although snows and brief freezes often occur long before that date. St. John de Crevecoeur (1778)
...a final reprieve, a sad last look at the world in congenial colors before the ground becomes hard again, the gutters gray with sleet, the skies barren and flat like dirty metal. New York Times editorial
It is only here in large portions of Canada that wondrous second wind, the Indian summer, attains its amplitude and heavenly perfection, — the temperatures, the sunny haze; the mellow, rich, delicate, almost flavoured air: Enough to live — enough to merely be. Walt Whitman (1904)
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. Mary Clemmer
From his pipe the smoke ascending
Filled the sky with haze and vapor,
Filled the air with dreamy softness,
Gave a twinkle to the water,
Touched the rugged hills with smoothness,
Brought the tender Indian Summer
To the melancholy north-land,
In the dreary Moon of Snow-shoes.
from The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry W. Longfellow (1855)
Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one in never sure whether she will come at all, nor for how long she will stay. Grace Metalious
It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold. Sigurd F. Olson
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