Golden Petals

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
~William Shakespeare

Like a welcome summer rain, 

humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, 

the air and you. ~Langston Hughes  

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

I know I am but summer to your heart, 

and not the full four seasons of the year.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay