quotations about summer
Oh, this summer
Your shoulders look good to me
and that horizon is heavy, it holds back the clouds
we've got a clear path down to the sea
we split the city at dark when the roads are clear
we'll hit the lobster shack and the store
my parade of hips and a tape full of hiss
and the sleeping bag on the floor
SUPERCHUNK
"This Summer"
Let me go on like I
Blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one
VIOLENT FEMMES
"Blister in the Sun"
O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"A Summer Day by the Sea"
In winter I get up at night,
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
In Winter I get up at Night
The summer dawn's reflected hue
To purple changed Loch Katrine blue,
Mildly and soft the western breeze
Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees,
And the pleased lake, like maiden coy,
Trembled but dimpled not for joy.
WALTER SCOTT
Lady of the Lake
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
Though summer is gone, and hath parted
Enjoyment's gay scene like its beam,
Though memory's left lonely hearted
To hang on its joy shadow'd gleam;
Which though every day passes over,
And dims with the stillness of night,
Yet the soul's watchful gaze can discover
THe trace of its meteor left light.
OSCAR
"Though Summer is Gone and Hath Parted", Cleone, Summer's Sunset Vision, the Confession, with other poems and stanzas
Summer's one redeeming quality is the Fourth of July, which is great only because explosions are awesome. But now that Independence Day has come and gone, there's nothing good left of summer -- just another two months of misery and blech.
REX HUPPKE
"The Unbearable Dreadfulness of Summer", Chicago Tribune, July 5, 2017
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
From brightening fields of ether fair-disclosed,
Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes,
In pride of youth, and felt through Nature's depth;
He comes, attended by the sultry Hours,
And ever-fanning breezes, on his way.
JAMES THOMSON
"Summer", The Seasons
After mowing the lawn or pulling weeds or putting clothes on the clothesline when it's hot, summer hot, unscrewing the hose from a sprinkler and taking big gulp from that hose? There's nothing like it. You can feel the water go all the way down to your tummy, cooling every inch and if you're really hot you take that same hose and water your face, too. It's a summer event that's not to be missed.
TRINA MACHACEK
"Is This You? Drinking in Summer", Nevada Appeal, July 7, 2017
We see the clouds of summer go and come,
And thirsty verdure praying them to give:
We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!"
She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.
HENRY ABBEY
"While the Days Go By"
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Slow comes the death of a dream painted in summer's night.
DAN SEERING
Summer's Gone: Lyrics and Poems of a Lifetime
Summer afternoon--summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMES
attributed, A Backward Glance
I spent my youth dealing with year-round summers, making me something of an expert on the subject. Drawing on that expertise, allow me to explain in vivid and inarguable detail why summer is the fetid meat wedged between the delightful bread of spring and autumn.
REX HUPPKE
"The Unbearable Dreadfulness of Summer", Chicago Tribune, July 5, 2017
For mouldering columns still look gay
When summer sunbeams o'er them shine.
ROSA VERTNER JEFFREY
"Hopes and Fears"
School is out and it's a sort of a buzz
A back then I didn't really know what it was
But now I see what have of this
The way that people respond to summer madness
The weather is hot and girls are dressing less
And checking out the fellas to tell 'em who's best
Riding around in your jeep or your benzos
Or in your Nissan stting on lorenzos
Back in Philly we be ou in the park
A place called the plateau is where everybody goes
Guys out hunting and girls doing likewise
Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes
She turn around to see what you beeping at
It's like the summers a natural afradesiac
And with a pen and pad I compose this rhyme
To hit you and get you equipped for the summer time
WILL SMITH
"Summertime", Homebase
In the summertime when the weather is hot
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
When the weather's fine
You got women, you got women on your mind
Have a drink, have a drive
Go out and see what you can find
MUNGO JERRY
"In the Summertime"
Summer is the season in which the Creator pours forth the treasures of His blessing in the greatest abundance.
CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM
attributed, Day's Collacon