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«The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small screen, where late the sweet birds sang, is now awash with repeats, reruns, rejects, replacements and reversions to the primitive.»
«Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.»
Author: Paul Robeson
(Activist, Actor, Singer)
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«Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
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dead end, hardly a, scarcely, shed, summer sweet, tear
«Thus with the year / Seasons return, but not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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bloom, flocks, herds, human face, morn, returns, seasons, summer sweet, The Sweet, vernal
«Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,/ Whether the summer clothe the general earth/ With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing / Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch / Of mossy apple tree.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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apple tree, bare, betwixt, branch, clothe, greenness, mossy, redbreast, seasons, summer sweet, tuft, tufts
«How sweet I roamed from field to field, and tasted all the summer's pride.»
«He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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exceedingly, lofty, persuading, ripe, scholar, sought, sour, summer sweet
«The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,Though to itself it only live and die.»
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