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Quotations About / On: SUMMER
 

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  Leaves of the summer, lovely summer's pride,
Sweet is the shade below your silent tree,

 
(William Barnes (1801-1886), British poet. Leaves (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse, The. John Hayward, ed. (1964; reprinted, with corrections, 1965) Oxford University Press.)
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2  

  The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.

 
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Living.")
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  And I her son, though summer-born
And summer-loving, none the less
Am easier when the leaves are gone....

 
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Mother, Summer, I....")
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  In summer, when the days are long,
Perhaps you'll understand the song:

 
(Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898), British poet. Through the Looking-Glass. . ; pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press.)
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  On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,

 
(A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman (1859-1936), British poet. On the idle hill of summer (A Shropshire Lad, XVIII). . . The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman. (1965) Henry Holt.)
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  If you were coming in the Fall,
I'd brush the Summer by

 
(Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet. If you were coming in the Fall (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Thomas H. Johnson, ed. (1960) Little, Brown.)
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  As clear as is the summer's sun.
 
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Archbishop of Canterbury, in Henry V, act 1, sc. 2, l. 86.)
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8  

  I always like summer
best

 
(Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943), U.S. poet. Knoxville, Tennessee (l. 1-2). . . Black Poets, The. Dudley Randall, ed. (1971) Bantam Books.)
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