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O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather.
(Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), U.S. writer ("H. H."; "Saxe Holm"). October's Bright Blue Weather (l. 1-4). . .
Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
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I like New York in June.
(Ralph Freed (1907-1973), U.S. songwriter. "How About You?" Babes on Broadway, Leo Feist, Inc. (1941).
Music composed by Burton Lane (b. 1912).)
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June is bustin' out all over.
(Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960), U.S. songwriter. June is Bustin' Out All Over (song), Carousel (stage musical, 1945; film, 1956).)
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Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
(Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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It's June in January because I'm in love.
(Leo Robin (1900-1984), U.S. songwriter. "June in January," Here Is My Heart, Famous Music Corp. (1934).
Music composed by Ralph Rainger(1900-1942).)
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He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
Heard, not regarded.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 2, l. 75-6.
To the Prince, about Richard II.)
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In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Victors.")
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Time with the season: only shee doth carry
June in her eyes, in her heart January.
(Thomas Carew (1589-1639), British poet. The Spring (l. 23-24). . .
Poems of Thomas Carew. Arthur Vincent, ed. (1899; repr. 1972) Books for Libraries Press.)
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