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Robert Burns Quotes about Summer

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.

Robert Burns, Hamilton PAUL (1819). “The Poems & Songs of Robert Burns, with a Life of the Author ... To which is Subjoined, an Appendix, Consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns' Superiority to Every Other Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul”, p.223

Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.169

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.

Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.145, Oxford University Press