Summer

*Authors are unknown, unless otherwise noted.

Summer isn't over until the school bell rings.
~ Nora Roberts

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay

Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James

Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
~ William Shakespeare

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russell Baker

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
~ William Shakespeare

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

To see the Summer sky
Is poetry, though never in a book it lie.
~ Emily Dickinson

Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable

The things we did last summer, I'll remember all winter long.
~ Sammy Cahn

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten.
~J. R. Lowell

The Little darling Spring,
Has run away;
The sunshine grew too hot for her to stay.
She kissed her sister, Summer,
And she said:
"When I am gone, you must be queen instead."
Now reigns the Lady Summer,
Round whose feet
A thousand fairies flock with blossoms sweet.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~Bern Williams

That beautiful season the Summer! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Longfellow

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~Gertrude Jekyll

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
~L.M. Montgomery

Summertime an' the livin' is easy.
~Ira Gershwin

Fairest of the months! Ripe summer's queen
The hey-day of the year
With robes that gleam with sunny sheen
Sweet August doth appear.
~R. Combe Miller

It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.
~N.P. Willis

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent

How sociable the garden was.
We ate and talked in given light.
The children put their toys to grass
All the warm wakeful August night.
~Thom Gunn

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here;
Warm southern wind, blow softly here;
Green sod above, lie light, lie light;
Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.
~Mark Twain

Flowers are nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.
~Croly

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf.
~Henry James

Oh, what do you do in the summertime when all the world is green?

In the summer when the days are hot,
I like to find a shady spot,
And hardly move a single bit
And sit, and sit, and sit, and sit.

The summer sun in the sky,
Shining, shining up so high
Makes it warm for outside fun.
To play at the park and run,
To swim and hike and fish,
And to go on a picnic if you wish.

You can let the water chase you,
You can jump across the spray.
When you're running
through the sprinkler,
There are lots of games to play.
You can stay there
as the water comes,
or run every-which-way,
When you're running
through the sprinkler
on a sunny summer day.

Rest is not idleness, and to 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 Lubbock

Kodachrome…
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
~ Simon and Garfunkel

Summer is a treasure trove of magical moments .

Come sail away on the waters of blue. 
If you haven't a boat, your imagination will do.

I love the sand between my toes, in my ears and up my nose!

To July
Here's to July,
Here's to July,
For the bird,
And the bee,
And the butterfly;
For the flowers
That blossom
For feasting the eye;
For skates, balls,
And jump ropes,
For swings that go high;
For rocketry
Fireworks that
Blaze in the sky,
Oh, here's to July!

Barefoot Days
In the morning, very early,
That's the time I love to go
Barefoot where the fern grows curly
And grass is cool between each toe!
On a summer morning-Oh!
On a summer morning.
That is when the birds go by
Up the sunny slopes of air,
And each rose has a butterfly
Or a golden bee to wear.
And I am glad in every toe--
Such a summer morning-Oh!
Such a summer morning.
~Rachel Field