“Maud Muller, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadows sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.”
Maud Muller (1856)
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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892Related quotes
“And rustic life and poverty
Grow beautiful beneath his touch.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer
Ode to the Memory of Burns
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
" Sonnet. To Science http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html", l. 12-14 (1829).
“Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer’s day.”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer
Summer Evening.
“Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.”
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 329.
Jeff VanderMeer book City of Saints and Madmen
"The Transformation of Martin Lake", epigram, p. 130
City of Saints and Madmen (2001–2004)
“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And the ripe harvest of the new-mown hay
Gives it a sweet and wholesome odour.”
Act V, scene 3.
Richard III (altered) (1700)