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“The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer prime, As when some master-hand exulting sweeps The keys of some great organ, ye give forth The music of the woodland depths, a hymn Of gladness and of thanks.”

Giving Hands Wind Masters Keys Summer Depth Forests Thanks Prime Broads Concerts Organs July Hymns Gladness Fervor Woodland

Author:William C. Bryant

“Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers, And dreams of countless Junes, Return when the lake-wind murmurs Through golden August noons.”

Long Dream Silence Sun Wind Return Thousand Summer Shadow Green Calm Ancient Warm Stealing Golden Burning Breasts Lakes June August Noon

Author:William Braithwaite

“June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.”

Fall Hours Fans Wind Flower Summer Vain June

Author:Lucy Larcom

“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Joy Boys Tree Cry Wind Summer Blue Distance Heavy Wander Mourning Breeze Corn August Oaks Dove Wheat Vines Ecstatic Odor Melons Delirious Duos

Book:Boy Life on the Prairie

Source: Boy Life on the Prairie

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .”

“These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”

Sports Sea Middle Wind Mets Summer Spring Forests Hills Beach Fountain Disturbed Brooks Whistling Mead Forgery

Book:The Beauties of Shakspeare

Source: The Beauties of Shakspeare

“Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.”

Years Mind Heart Stills Wind Summer Spring Winter Warm Sixty Glaciers Old Love Rosebuds

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.”

Night Heaven Perfect Rooms Sea Sky Wind Amount Ocean Summer Blue Storm Weather Sailor Blue Sky Turrets

Author:Katherine Page

“Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.”

White Tree Fans Wind Summer Sitting Stones Green Woods Shirts Feathers Caps August Pine Trees

Author:Li Bai

“In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.”

Years Wind Months Summer Advantage Seasons Weather Passages Fog Being Free Capes Boisterous

Book:A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty

Source: A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty

“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”

Fun Sun Sweet Wind Summer My Friends Fling Fun Things Solstice Summer Wind Summer Fling

Author:K. D. Lang