quotations about summer
I have a fancy that the sun
Regenerates what he looks upon,
And love to loiter in his rays
Thro' the warm length of summer days.
BESSIE RAYNER BELLOC
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Summer Sketches and Other Poems
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
letter to Charles Lamb, May 1826
Summer is the year's early manhood.
PLANCHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
It happened one summer
It happened one time
It happened forever
For a short time
A place for a moment
An end to dream
Forever I loved you
Forever it seemed
THE MOTELS
"Suddenly Last Summer"
Other seasons in this part of the world come and go, sometimes too soon. Summer overstays his welcome. You drop subtle hints. "My, just look at the time!" you say. Summer just sits there with a blank expression on his sunny face. (Yes, Summer is male. We know this by his clueless insensitivity). In another month, kids will be going back to school for the, uh, "fall." Do you think Summer gets the hint? Of course not. Oh, he might get up and stretch his legs a bit along about September and might take a step or two toward the door. But it's all a ruse and a cruel one at that.
ANONYMOUS
"Summer is here: What are we going to do about it?", The Commercial Dispatch, July 6, 2017
Summer is rolling across our paths with all its pleasures, like a cinnamon roll unrolling across your plate leaving a trail of gooey goodness to gather on your fingers and lap up until every drop of sunshine and sugary satisfaction is enjoyed. Oh, it's going to be hot and marvelous, but there are decisions to be made ... like what to drink to quench that summer thirst.
TRINA MACHACEK
"Is This You? Drinking in Summer", Nevada Appeal, July 7, 2017
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet XVIII
We got sweaty sheets and an ocean view
and it feels like a time machine
well you can't forget what you never knew
so come erase this summer with me
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
Rhymes and Rhythms
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS
The Glass Castle
Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
Summer is unclothed, and bears a wheaten garland.
OVID
attributed, Day's Collacon
You thought it was a falling leaf we heard:
I knew it was the Summer's gypsy feet.
KARLE WILSON BAKER
"Rondel for September", Blue Smoke
Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Well I'm a-gonna raise a fuss, I'm a-gonna raise a holler
About a-workin' all summer just to try an' earn a dollar
Everytime I call my baby, to try to get a date
My boss says, "No dice, son, you gotta work late"
Sometimes I wonder what I'm gonna do
Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues
EDDIE COCHRAN
"Summertime Blues"
It is beautiful, all, in its going,
This wonderful, sweet summer time;
The leaflets glide down through the sunshine,
As poets thoughts glide into rhyme.
Sweet Summer looks over her shoulder,
And whispers once more her farewells--
I wonder if Peace will come with her
When her feet are again on the hills.
MARY T. LATHRAP
"The Parting with Summer"
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul,
Comes back with more than the first loveliness--
The all I've lost, the more I never found
Haunting her beauty, while for me she weaves
Of color, odor, sound, her perfect days.
MARY CLEMMER AMES
"Presence"
Help me, help me, help me sail away
Well give me two good reasons why I oughta stay
'Cause I love to live so pleasantly
Live this life of luxury
Lazing on a sunny afternoon
In a summertime
THE KINKS
"Sunny Afternoon"
How beautiful is summer! Who does not, at this period, admire all nature teeming with life and replete with energy? At this time the richest wealth to earth is given, and the soul, as if in unison with the beneficence of its genial glow, offers up a prayer to the Source of all this beauty and splendor.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon