halcyon days
Noun
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Noun
- Period of calm during the winter, when storms do not occur.
- (idiomatic) A period of calm, often nostalgic: “halcyon days of yore”, “halcyon days of youth”.
- c.1591 – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
- Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, / Since I have entered into these wars.
- c.1880 – Ambrose Bierce, On a Mountain
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
- 1891 – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Book XXXIV
- Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
- Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
- 1920 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, ''''
- It was a halcyon day, and as they neared the shore and the salt breezes scurried by, he began to picture the ocean and long, level stretches of sand and red roofs over blue sea.
- 1941 – Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets - The Dry Salvages
- And the ragged rock in the restless waters,
Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it;
On a halcyon day it is merely a monument,
In navigable weather is always a seamark
to lay a course by: but in the sombre season
Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.
- And the ragged rock in the restless waters,
- c.1591 – William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1
- French: jours heureux
- German: Halkyonische Tage
- Italian: giorni alcionii
- Spanish: días tranquilos
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