June

Poems, Quotes, Folklore
Sayings, Links, References
Ideas, Garden Chores

Compiled by Michael P. Garofalo

The Spirit of Gardening

Months of the Year

On January 1, 2005 this June webpage was moved and is now updated at:
http://www.egreenway.com/months/monjun.htm

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. 
No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.  
-   Aldo Leopold

On this June day the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as
the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the
recollection of the loveliest days of the year - those days of May when all
is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.
-  Francis King

       I know well
                         That the June rains ...
Just fall.
                                    -   Onitsura

O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That's newly sprung in June.
-   Robert Burns

Seasons and Time

Now summer is in flower and natures hum 
Is never silent round her sultry bloom 
Insects as small as dust are never done 
Wi' glittering dance and reeling in the sun 
And green wood fly and blossom haunting bee 
Are never weary of their melody 
Round field hedge now flowers in full glory twine 
Large bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine 
That lift athirst their slender throated flowers 
Agape for dew falls and for honey showers 
These round each bush in sweet disorder run 
And spread their wild hues to the sultry sun.
-   John Clare, June

O Day after day we can't help growing older.
Year after year spring can't help seeming younger.
Come let's enjoy our winecup today,
Nor pity the flowers fallen.
-   Wang Wei, On Parting with Spring

If a June night could talk,
it would probably boast it invented romance.
-  Bern Williams

'Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
Your childhood is a bower:
Let my fingers wander in the moss
Where glows the rosebud

'Let me among the clean grasses
Drink the drops of dew
Which sprinkle the tender flower, --
- Paul Verlaine, Spring

The year is ended, and it only adds to my age;
Spring has come, but I must take leave of my home.
Alas, that the trees in this easter garden,
Without me, will still bear flowers.
-   Su Ting, circa 700AD

Spring - Quotes for Gardeners

The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
-   Joyce Kilmer, Spring

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in 
deep contemplation over  my vegetable progeny with a love 
that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken 
part in the process of creation.  It was one of the most bewitching 
sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside 
the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently 
to trace a line of delicate green.
-   Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse

Cuttings - June - Short Poems by Michael P. Garofalo

This is June, the month of grass and leaves . . . already the aspens are trembling again, 
and a new summer is offered me.  I feel a little fluttered in my thoughts, as if I might be too 
late.  Each season is but an infinitesimal point.  It no sooner comes than it is gone.  It has 
no duration.  It simply gives a tone and hue to my thought.  Each annual phenomena is 
reminiscence and prompting.  Our thoughts and sentiments answer to the revolution 
of the seasons, as two cog-wheels fit into each other.  We are conversant with only one 
point of contact at a time, from which we receive a prompting and impulse and instantly 
pass to a new season or point of contact.  A year is made up of a certain series and 
number of sensations and thoughts which have their language in nature.  Now I am 
ice, now I am sorrel.  Each experience reduces itself to a mood of the mind.
- Henry David Thoreau, Journal, June 6, 1857

Two Seasons, it is said, exist—
The Summer of the Just,
And this of Ours, diversified
With Prospect, and with Frost—

May not our Second with its First
So infinite compare
That We but recollect the one
The other to prefer?
-  Emily Dickinson, There is a June When Corn is Cut

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
-   Slim Acres

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville-- mighty Casey has struck out.
-   Ernest Thayer, Casey at the Bat, 1888   

June is bustin' out all over.
- Oscar Hammerstein II, 1945

Spring being a tough acto to follow,
God created June.
-   Al Bernstein

Tell you what I like the best --
'Long about knee-deep in June,
'Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine, -- some afternoon
Like to jes' git out and rest,
And not work at nothin' else!
-   James Witcomb Riley, Knee Deep in June

Annie's June Holiday Page

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Cuttings - June    Haiku and short poems by Michael P. Garofalo.  

Elaine's Spring Page

Folklore Calendar   

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June Poem Hunter

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Spring: Links and Ideas for Teachers   

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