Our anthology of poems for the summer season begins with a selection of classics:
- Anonymous medieval lyric (usually sung as a round),
“Sumer Is Icumen In” (c. 1250)
- Thomas Nashe,
“Fair Summer Droops,” from Summer’s Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe (1600)
- William Blake,
“The Schoolboy,” from Songs of Experience (1794)
- John Greenleaf Whittier,
“The Barefoot Boy” (1855)
- John Clare,
“Summer” (1865)
- Emily Dickinson,
“A something in a summer’s day” (#63)
- Amy Lowell,
“Summer” (1912)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins,
“Epithalamion” (1918)
To which we’ve added a few of the poems on summer themes we’ve received from contemporary poets:
- Ross Clark, “Just After Rain”
- Heather Haley, “Habitat”
- Mary Hamrick, “Hot Summer Nights”
- Dale Harris, “Red Grain Moon”
- Wayne Jarus, “Sweet Summer”
- Christine Klocek-Lim, “Cicadas”
- Joseph Pacheco, “Dejection on a Florida Summer Afternoon”
- Jack Peachum, “Cottonwood Summer”
- Jack Peachum, “Julep Season”
- Lisa Shields, “Wisteria Woman”
Enjoy these poems of the season!
