Maurice Baring (1874–1945) English writer
"Jean Francois", from Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches.
“My dog lay dead five days without a grave
In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine
And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine.”
The Pardon
Context: My dog lay dead five days without a grave
In the thick of summer, hid in a clump of pine
And a jungle of grass and honey-suckle vine.
I who had loved him while he kept alive
Went only close enough to where he was
To sniff the heavy honeysuckle-smell
Twined with another odor heavier still
And hear the flies' intolerable buzz.
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American poet 1921–2017Related quotes
Amors sanz crieme et sans peor
Est feus sanz flame et sanz chalor,
Jorz sanz soloil, bresche sanz miel,
Estez sans flor, iverz sanz giel,
Ciaus sanz lune, livres sanz letre.
Cligès, line 3893.
Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) Canadian writer
"October" (sonnet) http://www.sonnets.org/shermanf.htm
“Summer — summer — summer! The soundless footsteps on the grass!”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918)
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Landscape near an Aerodrome"
Poems (1933)
“Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snow-hid in Jenooary.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
