“Soon we will plunge into the cold darkness;
Farewell, vivid brightness of our too-short summers!”
Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres;<br>Adieu, vive clarté de nos étés trop courts! <br class="br">"Chant d'Automne" [Song of Autumn] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Chant_d%E2%80%99automne <br class="br">Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)
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“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
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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
C. J. Cherryh book The Dreamstone
The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : Of Fish and Fire
Arafel's Saga (1983)
Context: Men changed whatever they set hand to. They wrought their magic on beasts, to make them dull and patient. They brought fire and the reek of smoke to the dales. They brought lines and order to the curve of the hills. Most of all they brought the chill of iron, to sweep away the ancient shadows.
But they took the brightness too. It was inevitable, because that brightness was measured against that dark. Men piled stone on stone and made warm homes, and tamed some humbler, quieter things, but the darkest burrowed deep and the brightest went away, heartbroken.
Save one, whose patience or whose pride was more than all the rest.
So one place, one untouched place in all the world remained, a rather smallish forest near the sea and near humankind, keeping a time different than elsewhere.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Basque girl and Henri Quatre from The London Literary Gazette (12th October 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Separation"
The Still Centre (1939)
“Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter!
Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.”
Joanna Newsom (1982) American musician
Kingfisher
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Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain