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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 8.6

TV program · Fantasy (TV) · Drama (TV) · Fantasy · Drama

But winter is coming.

Game of Thrones · 2015

★ 7.2

Novel · Coming of age story

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 3.9

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

The Waste Land · 1922

★ 3.8

Personal journal

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

1853

★ 3.7

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

My Antonia · 1918

★ 3.7

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad.

The Seasons: Winter · 1726

★ 3.6

Days decrease, And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning

Andrea del Sarto · 1855

★ 3.6

The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer · 1847

★ 3.5

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti

1875

★ 3.5

Novel · Children's literature

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows · 1908

★ 3.5

Song · Great American songbook

Summer time and the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Summertime · 1935

★ 3.5

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The Green Fields of the Mind · 1977

★ 3.4

Philosophical literature

Does Heaven say anything? The four seasons run their course and all things are produced. Does Heaven say anything?

Analects · 221 BC

★ 2.4

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Anna Karenina · 1877

★ 2.4

Winter, which being full of care Makes summer's welcome, thrice more wished, more rare.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 2.2

The English winter—ending in July, To recommence in August.

Don Juan · 1823

★ 2.2

The snows have fled, now grass returns to the fields and leaves to the trees.

Odes · 11 BC

★ 2.1

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

Sir Thomas Mallory

Le Morte d'Arthur · 1485

★ 2.0

Now the summer came to pass And flowers through the grass Joyously sprang, While all the tribes of birds sang.

Walther von der Vogelweide

1230

★ 1.9

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