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Summer is icumen in,Lhude sing cuccu!
— Summer
Summer is icumen in,Lhude sing cuccu!
The loorie brought to his cinnamon nest.To welcome the noon of the summer day.
That beautiful seasonLay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
Very hot and still the air was,Motionless the sleeping shadows.
But how many merry monthes be in the yeere? Next to the merry month of May.
The summer dawn's reflected hueTrembled but dimpled not for joy.
Summer's parching heat.
The middle summer's spring.
Now is the winter of our discontentIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Thy eternal summer shall not fade.
Summer, summer, summertimetime to sit back and unwind.
Then came the jolly sommer, being dightThat was unlyned all, to be more light.
From brightening fields of ether fair-disclosed,And ever-fanning breezes, on his way.
All-conquering Heat, O, intermit thy wrath!Night is far off; and hotter Hours approach.
Patient of thirst and toil,Shot through his wither'd heart, the fiery blast.
What does winter or autumn or spring or summer know of memory. They know nothing of memory. They know that seasons pass and return. They know that they are seasons. That they are time. And they know how to affirm themselves. And they know how to impose themselves. And they know how to maintain themselves. What does autumn know of summer. What sorrows do seasons have. None hate. None love. They just pass.
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
O thou who passest through our valleys inWith joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
Now simmer blinks on flowery braes,And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
I question not if thrushes sing, When all is summer there.
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.
Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day, Oh, Where's Polly?"
Here is the ghostOf summer to be.
All labourers draw hame at even, Whilk sent this summer day."
Sumer is y cumen in.
As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
O for a lodge in a garden of cucumbers! O for a pleasure trip up to the pole!
Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
O summer day beside the joyous sea!To some the landmark of a new domain.
Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade,And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,Ye gods! and is there no relief for love?
Oh, the summer night And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Before green apples blush, Is worth a month in town.
Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
