Simple Joys...

Nothing new to share ~

family ~

work ~

the garden ~

and the animals ~

are keeping me busy.

Please enjoy these lovely poems ~

and photos of simple joys here at home...

"O Spirit of the Summertime!

Bring back the roses to the dells;

The swallow from her distant clime,

The honey-bee from drowsy cells.

Bring back the friendship of the sun;

The gilded evenings, calm and late,

When merry children homeward run,

And peeping stars bid lovers wait.

Bring back the singing;

and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;

Oh, bring again my heart's content,

Thou Spirit of the Summertime!"

~ by William Allingham ~

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"Fairest of the months!

Ripe summer's queen

The hey-day of the year

With robes that gleam

with sunny sheen

Sweet August doth appear."

~ by R. Combe Miller ~

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"Whilst August yet wears her golden crown,

Ripening fields lush- bright with promise;

Summer waxes long, then wanes, quietly passing

Her fading green glory on to riotous Autumn."

~ Michelle L. Thieme, August's Crown ~

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"How sociable the garden was.

We ate and talked in given light.

The children put their toys to grass

All the warm wakeful August night."

~ Thomas Gunn, Last Days at Teddington ~

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"What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

~ Jane Austen ~

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continuing to enjoy the summer...

Lana of Honeysuckle Lane