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The Summer comes and the Summer goes; Wild-flowers are fringing the dusty lanes, The shallows go darting through fragrant rains, Then, all of a sudden--it snows. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride; O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside; O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell. - Thomas Chatterton Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sunthaw; whether the eve-drops fall, Heard only in the trances of the blast, Of if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet moon. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. - George William Curtis Perceiv'st them not the process of the year, How the four seasons in four forms appear, Resembling human life in ev'ry shape they wear? Spring first, like infancy, shoots out her head, With milky juice requiring to be fed: * * * Proceeding onward whence the year began, The Summer grows adult, and ripens into man. * * * Autumn succeeds, a sober, tepid age, Not froze with fear, nor boiling into rage; * * * Last, Winter creeps along with tardy pace, Sour is his front, and furrowed is his face. - John Dryden Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow. - James Russell Lowell, To ----- Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move. - Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik), Immutable To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana January grey is here, Like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, March with grief doth howl and rave, And April weeps--but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dirge for the Year (st. 4) The autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearses, and the summer gives green turf and bramble's to bind up our graves. - Jeremy Taylor Ah! well away! Seasons flower and fade. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Every Day hath its Night These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. * * * * * Then comes Thy glory in the Summer months With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; * * * * * Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that live. In Winter awful Thou! with clouds and storms Around Thee thrown, tempest o'er roll'd, Majestic darkness! on the whirlwind's wing, Riding sublime. - James Thomson (1) The winter will be short, the summer long, The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot, Tasting of cider and of scuppernong; All seasons sweet, but autumn best of all. The squirrels in their silver fur will fall Like falling leaves, like fruit, before your shot. - Elinor Holt Wylie, Wild Peaches
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