Strawberries and red flowers. Goodbye summer – I will surely miss you
Goodbye summer – I will surely miss you
And summer often seems to be endless. Summer of 2012 with record-high temperatures has been over. Heat was beating records around the world. Even in Siberia where I live, in July it was 40C without rains. We complained a lot. It seemed endless. Now it’s time to say – Goodbye Summer, I will surely miss you. “There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart”. Celia Thaxter.
When summer gathers up her robes of glory, And, like a dream, glides away. ~ Sarah Helen Whitman
Goodbye summer – I will surely miss you
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry. Emily DickinsonLove is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soulSummer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. Henry JamesTo lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. John LubbockNo price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer. ~James Russell LowellBeautiful summerThe coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Author unknownDo what we can, summer will have its flies. Ralph Waldo EmersonBeing a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. Erma BombeckStill, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night! Walt WhitmanA life without love is like a year without summer. Swedish ProverbPeople don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton ChekhovMushroom in the grassSamuel Taylor Coleridge: Summer has set in with its usual severityDeep summer is when laziness finds respectability. Sam KeenIn summer, the song sings itself. William Carlos WilliamsThe summer night is like a perfection of thought. Wallace StevensIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert CamusOh, the summer night Has a smile of light And she sits on a sapphire throne. Barry CornwallI question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there. John Vance CheneyIn June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. Aldo LeopoldIn 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. R.L. StevensonSummer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. Francis ThompsonIf a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. Bern WilliamsThe wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchids died amid the summer glow. Bryant
