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Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an American poet, educator, editor, and mother. She is the author of two collections of poems, Each Luminous Thing and Zero at the Bone, [1] and a monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature. [2]
Wessex dialect of Middle English. " Sumer is icumen in " is the incipit of a medieval English round or rota of the mid-13th century; it is also known variously as the Summer Canon and the Cuckoo Song . The line translates approximately to "Summer has come" or "Summer has arrived". [ 2] The song is written in the Wessex dialect of Middle English.
Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year. The name "midsummer" mainly refers to summer solstice festivals of European origin, especially those in the Nordic countries.
1. “The summer solstice is a time for strength and vitality for action and movement.” ― Carole Carlton 2. “Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, And you my friend, my new fun thing, my ...
Yaldā Night ( Persian: شب یلدا shab-e yalda) or Chelle Night (also Chellah Night, Persian: شب چلّه shab-e chelle) is an ancient festival in Iran, [ 1][ 2] Afghanistan, [ 3] Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Iraqi Kurdistan, [ 4][ 5] Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Dagestan and Turkey that is celebrated on the winter solstice. [ 6]
The summer solstice welcomes the first official day of summer. Find out about the science of the solstice and well as its pagan roots and celebrations of fertility.
Athens. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict among four Athenian lovers. Another follows a group of six amateur actors rehearsing the ...
The summer solstice or estival solstice[ i] occurs when one of Earth 's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern ). For that hemisphere, the summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year, when the Sun is at its highest ...