Nature loosens her limbs, increases her ambition. Summer’s work is intense with colour, she paints with a brighter light. The hours of night diminish, quickly shrink. She has no need for rest but a yearning to work. Vibrant swathes of shooting, pulsing colour almost overwhelm. Her tempo is beyond our awed imagination.
Inspired, the air, the sea, the parching earth bring elemental strength. Summer storms, forest fires. The endless blue of sky, of ocean water will not still her work. Mistress of all. Our poets merely the inky pens of her will.
In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of summer.
01 - Fifty Shades of Summer - An Introduction
02 - Summer by Alexander Pope
03 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
04 - June by William Cullen Bryant
05 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy
06 - June. A Tale by William Cowper
07 - There is a June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson
08 - Summer Dawn by William Morris
09 - All in June by William Henry Davies
10 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell
11 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt
12 - June Night by Sara Teasdale
13 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley
14 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale
15 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley
16 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus
17 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
18 - Summer by Christina Rossetti
19 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman
20 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
21 - Four Songs for Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne
22 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson
23 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford
24 - London in July by Amy Levy
25 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan
26 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
27 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats
28 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers
29 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
30 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar
31 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth
32 - Summer Evening by John Clare
33 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant
34 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau
35 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson
36 - Sonnet XVIII - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare
37 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster
38 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne
39 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive
40 - August by James Whitcomb Riley
41 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy
42 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman
43 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth
44 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale
45 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley
46 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay
47 - Fair Summer Drops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe
48 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale
49 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran
50 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti
51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling
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