Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day. William Shakespeare
How many colors of blue make up the sky? Seven, ten maybe? Rod McKuen, The Sky
Rainbows
I do set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. Old Testament, Genesis, IX, 13
Now and then the clouds are torn apart by a clean wind, and low in the north a moon rainbow stands quickly against the black sky. Its colors are all in proper order, but soft and uncertain, diluted by the blue reflections of the night. Victor B. Schaeffer
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with a little rain. Dolly Parton
Ahead of me, over the projecting point, a gigantic rainbow of incredible perfection had sprung shimmering into existance. Loren Eiseley, The Star Thrower
Is there anything in heaven and earth more magical than a rainbow? Appearing suddenly -- out of nowhere -- it flashes across a sky darkened by clouds and rain. Louise B. Young
Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Halos, Sun Dogs, Corona
Sun dogs and moon dogs are beautiful accents to a winter day or night as the rainbow is to a showery Summer day. Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons
But suddenly, out of the brilliant blue emptiness, snow began falling in a confetti-sparkle of diamond dust. I was standing inside a kaleidoscope. Diane Ackerman, Deep Play
For I fear a hurricane; Last night the moon had a golden ring And tonight no moon we see. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Wreck of The Hesperus
Sunrise/Sunset
Sundown is the hour for many strange effects in light and shade—enough to make the colorist go delirious—long spokes of molten silver sent horizontally through the trees... Walt Whitman
Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned....Upon the other hand they go on. Oscar Wilde, The Decay of Lying
A red dawn of awesome, proportions...bloodies the pond waters... Franklin Russell, Watchers at the Pond
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat. Mark Twain
A roseate redness, clear as amber, suffuses the low western sky about the sun....The atmosphere there is like some kind of wine, perchance, or molten cinnamon, if that is red, in which also all kinds of pearls and precious stones are melted. Henry David Thoreau
Imagine on the horizon a lovely orange color subtly touched with green which fades at the zenith into a lilac hue while the rest of the sky is a magnificent azure. Bernardin of St. Pierre
The summer sun is sinking low; Only the tree-tops redden and glow:
Only the weathercock on the spire Of the neighboring church is a flame of fire; All is in shadow below. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sundown
With the first gleam of morning rays, the garden is a prism of a thousand hues refracted in tiny does of crystal dew, a dazzling quilt of millefleur colors covering the sleeping flower beds. Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act
Just a touch of scarlet Lighting up the rosemary The early dawn paints the clouds left by the summer rain A color crayon morning slips softly through the window glass... Gary Smith, Color Crayon Morning
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