The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for.
1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction
2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman
3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney
5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31)
6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds
7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore
8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell
9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor
10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen
11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield
12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft
13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling
14 - London in July by Amy Levy
15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley
17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan
18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly
20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins
21 - The Sweets of the Rose by Hafiz
22 - The Rose by John Cournos
23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats
24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery
25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats
27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
29 - Clouds by Mirabai
30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson
31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson
33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson
34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford
35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan
36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle
37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet
38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles
39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers
41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson
42 - The School Boy by William Blake
43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson
44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill
45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris
46 - Summer by Alexander Pope
47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt
48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson
49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles
50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay
51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles
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