Alexander Pope Quotes About Summer

Quotes about: Summer

• Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,
  Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,
  Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,
  Say, is not absence death to those who love?

  Alexander Pope

  Missing You, Summer, Goodbye

  Alexander Pope (1807). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.172

• Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Flower, Eye

  'Pastorals' (1709) 'Summer' l. 73

• Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Wise, War

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (including His Translation of Homer). To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson”, p.233

• But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat,
  The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat,
  To closer shades the panting flocks remove;
  Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

  Alexander Pope

  Summer, Shade, Murmuring

  Alexander Pope, Henry Francis Cary (1841). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by the Rev. H. F. Cary, Etc”, p.7

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