https://youtu.be/oxHnRfhDmrk Starry, starry nightPaint your palette blue and greyLook out on a summer’s dayWith eyes that know the darkness in my soulShadows on the hillsSketch the trees and the daffodilsCatch the breeze and the winter chillsIn colors on the snowy linen land Now I understandWhat you tried to say to meAnd how you suffered forContinue reading “Vincent : Starry Starry Night ( tribute to Vincent van Gogh : Don Mclean : American Pie ( Album ) 1971 : Video (1) & (2) : : Ellie Goulding : (3) : : Jasmine Thompson and Ryan keen : Duet : (4) : : Summer Time Classic : :”
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Summer Breeze : Seals & Crofts : : Summer Time Classic : :
https://youtu.be/GQQbjpomexo See the curtains hangin’ in the windowIn the evenin’ on a Friday nightA little light a-shinin’ through the windowLets me know everything’s alright Summer breeze, makes me feel fineBlowing through the jasmine in my mindSummer breeze, makes me feel fineBlowing through the jasmine in my mind See the paper layin’ on the sidewalkA littleContinue reading “Summer Breeze : Seals & Crofts : : Summer Time Classic : :”
One Day Like This : Guy Edward John Garvey / Craig Lee Potter / Richard Barry Jupp / Mark Potter / Peter James Turner : Elbow ( British Band ) : ( Live at British Summer Time In Hyde Park , London On July 8 , 2017 ) : : Summer Time Classic : :
https://youtu.be/hqsF_-rTdhI Lyrics : : :: ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️Drinking in the morning sunBlinking in the morning sunShaking off a heavy oneHeavy like a loaded gunWhat made me behave that way?Using words I never sayI can only think it must be loveOh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful daySomeone tell me how I feelIn silly wrong, but vivid rightOh,Continue reading “One Day Like This : Guy Edward John Garvey / Craig Lee Potter / Richard Barry Jupp / Mark Potter / Peter James Turner : Elbow ( British Band ) : ( Live at British Summer Time In Hyde Park , London On July 8 , 2017 ) : : Summer Time Classic : :”
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal : Alfred Lord Tennyson : Mychael Danna : Vanity Fair (2004) Movie : (1) : : Soprano Laura Wright : Royal Philharmonic Orchestra : Paul Mealor : (2) : : Poem Reading Video : Tom O’Bedlam : (3) : : Horn & String Orchestra (2012) For Tenor : James Gilchrist , Barbara Hannigan and Jasper Wall (Amsterdam Synfonietta) : Benjamin Britten Version : (4) : : Amanda Rae Matson, Soprano & Julia Wilcox , Piano (2012) : Roger Quilter Version : (5) : : Summer Time Classic : :
https://youtu.be/DhTpgKBaBcA Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalBY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. NowContinue reading “Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal : Alfred Lord Tennyson : Mychael Danna : Vanity Fair (2004) Movie : (1) : : Soprano Laura Wright : Royal Philharmonic Orchestra : Paul Mealor : (2) : : Poem Reading Video : Tom O’Bedlam : (3) : : Horn & String Orchestra (2012) For Tenor : James Gilchrist , Barbara Hannigan and Jasper Wall (Amsterdam Synfonietta) : Benjamin Britten Version : (4) : : Amanda Rae Matson, Soprano & Julia Wilcox , Piano (2012) : Roger Quilter Version : (5) : : Summer Time Classic : :”
BEAUTY AND PAIN OLD SUMMERHOUSE : Walter De La Mare : : Summer Time Classic : :
THE OLD SUMMERHOUSE This blue-washed, old, thatched summerhouse —Paint scaling, and fading from its walls —How often from its hingeless doorI have watched — dead leaf, like the ghost of a mouse,Rasping the worn brick floor —The snows of the weir descending below,And their thunderous waterfall. Fall — fall: dark, garrulous rumour,until I could listenContinue reading “BEAUTY AND PAIN OLD SUMMERHOUSE : Walter De La Mare : : Summer Time Classic : :”
A Summer’s Night : Paul Laurence Dunbar : Summer Time Classic : :
A Summer’s Night The night is dewy as a maiden’s mouth,The skies are bright as are a maiden’s eyes,Soft as a maiden’s breath the wind that fliesUp from the perfumed bosom of the South.Like sentinels, the pines stand in the park;And hither hastening, like rakes that roam,With lamps to light their wayward footsteps home,The firefliesContinue reading “A Summer’s Night : Paul Laurence Dunbar : Summer Time Classic : :”
I love to see the Summer beaming forth : John Clare : Sonnet : (1) : : I love to see : Set to Music Video : tobydarling : (2) : : Summer Time Classic : :
https://youtu.be/daG-A3h2WjQ SONNETI LOVE TO SEE THE SUMMERBY JOHN CLARE I love to see the summer beaming forth And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north I love to see the wild flowers come again And Mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain And water lilies whiten on the floods Where reed clumps rustleContinue reading “I love to see the Summer beaming forth : John Clare : Sonnet : (1) : : I love to see : Set to Music Video : tobydarling : (2) : : Summer Time Classic : :”
The Soote Season : Henry Howard , Earl Of Surrey : Sonnet : : Summer Time Classic : :
The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes,With grene hath clad the hill and eke the vale:The nightingale with fethers new she singes:The turtle to her make hath tolde her tale:Somer is come, for euery spray nowe springes,The hart hath hong his olde hed on the pale:The buck in brake his winter cote heContinue reading “The Soote Season : Henry Howard , Earl Of Surrey : Sonnet : : Summer Time Classic : :”
Blackberry-Picking : Seasmus Heany : : Summer Time Classic : :
Blackberry Picking : : : : : : : : : : : :: : : : : : : : : Late August, given heavy rain and sunFor a full week, the blackberries would ripen.At first, just one, a glossy purple clotAmong others, red, green, hard as a knot.You ate that first one andContinue reading “Blackberry-Picking : Seasmus Heany : : Summer Time Classic : :”
Adlestrop : Edward Thomas : : Summer Time Classic : :
Yes, I remember Adlestrop –The name, because one afternoonOf heat the express-train drew up thereUnwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.No one left and no one cameOn the bare platform. What I sawWas Adlestrop – only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass,And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,No whit less stillContinue reading “Adlestrop : Edward Thomas : : Summer Time Classic : :”