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Discover our poem explanations - click here!Searching... Subject: SUMMER Matches Found: 921 "IN SUMMER TIME, WHEN FLOWERS DO SPRING", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Under the greenwood tree Subject(s): Summer A BALLAD FROM APRIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dazed and bewildered with living Last Line: And a something that weeps when I smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Love; Summer A BOY'S SUMMER SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fine to play Last Line: Ha, ha! Subject(s): African Americans; Summer; Negroes; American Blacks A CAMP IN THREE LIGHTS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the darkness sharply lined Last Line: The faded fire, the aurora's loss. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps A CITY STREET IN SUMMER, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: It stumbles, numbed and prostrate Last Line: Whence god is crying out! Subject(s): Streets; Summer; Avenues A COLORADO JUNE DAWN, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: There is magic interlacing of the shadows and the sun Last Line: Since you are here to share my glee. Subject(s): June; Magic; Morning; Summer; Sun A COMPARISON IN A SEASIDE FIELD, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis royal and authentic june Last Line: Faintly perceptible, her june. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Summer A COUNTRY SUMMER PASTORAL; FROM ETYMOLOGICAL DEDUCTIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would flee from the city's rule and law Last Line: Of grasshoppers out to grass Subject(s): Country Life;nonsense;summer A DIRGE FOR SUMMER, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Summer dieth: - o'er his bier Last Line: Of the golden olden-time. Subject(s): Summer A DREAM OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bland as the morning breath of june Last Line: Has left his hope with all! Subject(s): Holidays; Summer; Trees A DREAM UNFINISHED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a dream unfinished; only a form at rest Last Line: With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Summer; Nightmares; Paradise A FRUIT-PIECE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon of summer folds Last Line: With heaven's own sacramental wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fruit; Gardens & Gardening; Summer A GIRL'S AUTUMN REVERIE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We plucked a red rose, you and I Last Line: We woke but to remember. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer A GLIMPSE OF PAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught but a glimpse of him Last Line: In eddies of odorous air. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Rivers; Summer A GREEN CRAB'S SHELL, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not, exactly, green: Subject(s): Summer A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds! Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The A LANDSCAPE BY COURBET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lies the mere beneath the moorside, still Last Line: Low lies the mere. Subject(s): Roundels; Summer; Wind A LEAF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody said, in the crowd, last eve Last Line: When somebody mentioned your name last night Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Names; Summer A LESSON FOR THIS SUNDAY, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The growing idleness of summer grass Subject(s): Summer A LOST LOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a summer ago when he left me here Last Line: Good-by, my lover; good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Lost Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Sea; Summer; Ocean A LYRIC CALENDAR, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black-winged robbers of the north Last Line: All day long in the sere oak wood. Subject(s): Autumn; Calendars; Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall A MIDSUMMER HOUR, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There comes not through the o'erarching cloud of green Last Line: The slow lapse of the gradual wave is heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Silence; Summer A MONTH IN SUMMER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Several years ago, I wrote haiku in this way Last Line: "is that what is meant by dwelling in unreality? And here too I end my words." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Family Life; Japan; Love Affairs; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Summer; Women; Women's Rights; Relatives; Japanese; Loneliness; Feminism A NATURALIST'S GRIEVANCE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Flames there are that sink and chill Last Line: Charming every rapt spectator! Subject(s): Beauty; Muses; Nature; Summer A NOON INTERVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A deep, delicious hush in earth and sky Last Line: The wand waves, and the dozer sinks away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Earth; Noon; Sleep; Summer; World A NYMPHOLEPT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, and noon, and a splendour of silence, felt Last Line: And nought is all, as am I, but a dream of thee. Subject(s): Light; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Sky; Summer A POET'S FANCIES: 5. THE SPRING TO THE SUMMER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O poet of the time to be Last Line: I led thy feet before I died. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring; Summer A SCENE IN SUMMER, by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alfred, I would that you behold me now Last Line: Divide dominion with the abundant light. Subject(s): Summer; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron A SETTING, by DONALD REVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing orphic, nothing foreign Last Line: Became the best of you Subject(s): Summer; Suburbs; Contentment A SOMETHING IN A SUMMER'S DAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Another summer's day! Subject(s): Summer A SONG OF SUMMER, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the swish and the swash of the blue summer sea Last Line: To the fish-ball's twin sister, the fragrant fried clam. Subject(s): Mermaids & Mermen; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Symphonies; Concerts A SUMMER AFTERNOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze Last Line: "coo-coo!"" -- I mustn't -- ""coo-coo!"" -- fall asleep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Afternoon; Katydids; Summer A SUMMER DAY, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green leaves panting for joy with the Last Line: Why god waited for this, then called the world very good? Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER DAY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet valley, whose streams flow as sparkling and bright Last Line: The light of thy beauty, the hope of thy spring. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER EVENING, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How fine has the day been! How bright was the sun! Last Line: Of rising in brighter array. Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight A SUMMER EVENING'S MEDITATION, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past! The sultry tyrant of the south Last Line: Unlock the glories of the world unknown. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER MOOD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! For evermore, for evermore Last Line: And who shall make the solemn mystery clear? Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER MORNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One set apart in days of old Last Line: Who worships in the morning gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER NIGHT, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her soft, cool arms extending, / night comes anew Last Line: With it might go! Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime A SUMMER NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Silent the vast of night Last Line: And share my brothers' silence. Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Silence; Summer; Bedtime A SUMMER NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summah is de lovin' time Last Line: Night-time beats de day! Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER NIGHT, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the breath of the summer night Last Line: That waiteth for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER NIGHT'S ENCHANTMENT, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfume of the garden blows Last Line: With joy around us everywhere. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER PASTORAL, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hot today. The bees is buzzin' Last Line: Lose my patience an' git cross. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER PICTURE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "from saffron to yellow, from purple to gray" Last Line: Lies all the sweet valley. The valley of rest Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To kneel before some saintly shrine Last Line: Our common earth a holy ground. Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Summer A SUMMER SKETCH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis june, 'tis merry smiling june Last Line: Twill always worship there. Subject(s): Happiness; Summer; Joy; Delight A SUMMER SONG, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Summer is sweet, ay! Summer is sweet Last Line: There's endless summer in brown, brown eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Love; Summer A SUMMER SONG, by EDWARD HEBENTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come, my love, the woods are green Last Line: With their sweet notes are ringing. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER SUMMARY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I, lying in a grot Last Line: What care I how bad they be? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A SUMMER SUNRISE; AFTER LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master-hand whose pencils trace Last Line: Go up to bless the new-born day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Earth; Mountains; Summer; Sunrise; World; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A SUMMER TWILIGHT, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a summer gloaming, faint and sweet Last Line: Wheeling the self-same circuit o'er and o'er. Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER WISH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Live all thy sweet life through Last Line: Cool with refreshing dew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer; Wishes A SUMMER'S AFTERNOON, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the close of a summer's day Last Line: That's all. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Afternoon; Rhyme; Summer A SUMMER'S DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer's put the idy in Last Line: The dreams that never comes ag'in. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Youth; Childhood A SUMMER'S EVENING, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet yearnings unexpressed Last Line: And peace divine the dewy landscape steeps! Subject(s): Love; Peace; Silence; Summer A SUMMER'S GHOST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of that old summer can you still recall Last Line: And cold, white winter after bloom and bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Summer A SUMMER'S GROWTH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair was the flower which proffers now its fruit Last Line: "not sweet, but very bitter, is this thing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Fruit; Summer A SUMMER'S NIGHT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night is dewy as a maiden's mouth Last Line: The fireflies come stagg'ring down the dark. Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime A TENT BESIDE A RIVER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering lanterned, canvas-sprawled fields Last Line: Nor their words ferried anyone safely anywhere. Subject(s): Bible; Camping; Faith; Parents; Camps; Summer Camps; Belief; Creed; Parenthood A THREEFOLD TRIBUTE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To tenderest affection Last Line: With ripe luxuriance soon. Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Music & Musicians; Summer A VISION OF SUMMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a marvelous vision of Last Line: With a tremulous patter of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Nature; Summer; Vision; Paradise A WEATHER REPORT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was darkly drear Last Line: The world was summer! Subject(s): Summer A WET AUGUST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine drops of water bead the jessamine Last Line: Were wrought more bright than brightest skies to-day. Subject(s): Rain; Summer A WRAITH OF SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In its color, shade and shine Last Line: And the rocking lily never even rustles as it rings! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Change; Flowers; Roses; Summer A YEAR'S CAROLS: MAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, may, whose bark puts forth full-sailed Last Line: Is even a flower of flowering may. Subject(s): May (month); Seasons; Summer ABUNDANCE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Things I have wasted, cast aside and lost Last Line: With never a ticking clock nor setting sun. Subject(s): Summer ACROSS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Across three silent fields of summer Last Line: It escapes us all Subject(s): God; Summer ACROSS THE FIELDS TO ANNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the summer-tide Last Line: Across the fields to anne! Subject(s): Love; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Pan (mythology); Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Summer; Songs ACTING ON A TIP, by JAMES TATE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We went to the bug-eating state Subject(s): Camping; Insects; Camps; Summer Camps; Bugs AFTER PUMPING, by JOHN KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the day Last Line: Always away from %the green incursion Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Water AFTER SUMMER, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll not weep for summer over Last Line: Steals no dream. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Summer; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before our eyes a pageant rolled Last Line: Can hold the runners lest they fall! Subject(s): Hope; Nations; Soul; Summer; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Optimism AFTER TU FU (THEY SAY YOU'RE STAYING IN A MOUNTAIN TEMPLE), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the damp evenings of summertime Last Line: On the other side of the clouds Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Fall AFTERMATH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: We laughed and loved as the summer went Last Line: Are you content? Subject(s): Love; Past; Summer AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That tree again Last Line: Prowl Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Night; Summer; Trees AGAIN-NOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This vague surreal cityscape, / not get-at-able; neither clear Last Line: Even dreaded and unwanted quick. Subject(s): Breath; Summer ALBUQUERQUE SUMMER '89, by SUSAN SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: I didn't leave willingly was sent away Last Line: Without memory without place %the dirt beneath me still %andgreen Subject(s): Albuquerque, New Mexico; Summer ALL FOR ME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world grows green on a thousand hills Last Line: You and your court came north together. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Kisses; Summer; Wind ALL HER SUMMERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That evening was all her summers Last Line: And let her freedom sleep in the arms of banter. Subject(s): Divorce; Freedom; Summer ALL IN JUNE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: A week ago I had a fire Last Line: To wriggle out of hollow flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer ALL PASSES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, sweet, the lusty thrush Last Line: Alack, that songs have wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer; Thrushes ALTER EGO, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: At times, I wish I had been able %to stay on in the home place Last Line: On winter nights, my outside light %would perforate the dark Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Nature; Summer AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN AUTUMNAL TONIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mystery is it? The morning Last Line: With the hale harvest-hands of the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons; Fall AN EMPTY NEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find an old deserted nest Last Line: A phantom guest of empty dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Summer; Youth; Nightmares AN INDIAN SUMMER REVERIE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What visionary tints the year puts on Last Line: And without her the impoverished seasons roll. Subject(s): Indian Summer AN INVALID'S PLEA, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O summer! My beautiful beautiful summer! Last Line: Where never a rose of the roses shall die! Subject(s): Life; Summer AN OLD FRIEND, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, old midsummer! Are you here again Last Line: Well, this is just like old times, I declare! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Summer; Childhood; Joy; Delight ANOTHER SEASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fall work almost done Last Line: Where someone was sharpening the knives Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Fall ANOTHER SUMMER DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A dewdrop sparkled in the sun Last Line: Another summer day. Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight APPLE BLOSSOM TIME, by JESSIE H. WIXOM Poem Text First Line: Apple blossoms softly falling Last Line: Yellow water lilies lie. Subject(s): Nature; Summer APPLES, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: I thought we lost a strong summer Last Line: The dark crows %hushed in their trees Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer AS SUMMER INTO AUTUMN SLIPS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Of life's declivity Variant Title(s): Poem: 1346; Poem: 134 Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Time AT A WINDOW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just a flower on the window-sill Last Line: Of souls aglow with the heavenly fire? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Summer AT CAMP, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone says the deep woods are soothing Last Line: Howling for howling, the best kind of howl Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps AT DAWN WITHE THE BLINDS RAISED, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How does faith come-like a hummingbird darting by Last Line: And the best grass since last summer is right now Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Dawn; Faith; Summer AT LAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O'er the sunlit hills of berkshire drooped the drowsy summer calm Last Line: Where at last the soldier's sweetheart slumbers by her lover's side Subject(s): Soldiers;summer;virginia (state) AT MIDSUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spacious noon enfolds me with its peace Last Line: Then day, and year, and life whirl on toward death. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Life; Summer AT NINETY IN THE SHADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hot weather? Yes; but really not Last Line: Compared with weather twice as hot! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Weather AT THE END OF SUMMER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days to come I shall remember these Last Line: To set me free—I have these memories! Subject(s): Memory; Summer ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer-night's dream! All-fantastic Last Line: Heard those sounds in earlier days? Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares AU REVOIR, by MARIE MACKLEY Poem Text First Line: Goodbye, summer Last Line: When you come, heralded by april's rain. Subject(s): Summer AUF WIEDERSEHEN! SUMMER, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little gate was reached at last Last Line: "she said, -- ""auf wiedersehen!" Subject(s): Absence; Summer; Separation; Isolation AUGUST, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off among the fields and meadow rills Last Line: In the hot sunshine snaps his castanets. Subject(s): Nature; Summer AUGUST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No breezes stir the foliage Last Line: By some lilied pond or brook. Subject(s): August; Summer AUGUST, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: August days are hot and still Last Line: August is too hot for play! Subject(s): Drought; Summer; Sun AUGUST / INNOKENTY ANNENSKY, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds drift close to us Last Line: Of the earrings she left behind Subject(s): Annensky, Innokenty (1856-1909); Summer AUGUST WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead heat and windless air Last Line: And the ripe apples fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Harvest; Summer AULD REIKIE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Auld reikie, wale o' ilka toun Last Line: But gallop'd to edina's shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Courtesans; Day; Night; Summer; Bedtime AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps AY WAUKIN, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simmer's a pleasant time, / flowers of every colour Last Line: Ay waukin &c. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Summer; Thought; Thinking BALLADE MADE IN THE HOT WEATHER, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fountains that frisk and sprinkle Last Line: To live, I think of these! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Made In The Hot Weather Subject(s): Summer BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams Last Line: Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Midsummer Days And Nights Subject(s): Nature; Summer BALLADE OF SUMMER; TO C.H. ARKCOLL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When strawberry pottles are common and cheap Last Line: When fans for a penny are sold in the strand! Subject(s): Summer BALLADE OF THE FOREST IN SUMMER, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Fra cruachan tae aberdeen Last Line: It's summer noo in a' the hills! Subject(s): Forests; Summer; Woods BALVANYOS SUMMER, by ZSOFIA BALLA Poem Source First Line: Forestry fleece, curls Last Line: Unadmittedly anointed, %imprisonment Subject(s): Summer BANAL SOJOURN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps Subject(s): Summer; Boredom; Ennui BANK-SWALLOWS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In a village of bank-swallows Subject(s): Nature; Summer BE'MI'STER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet be'mi'ster, that bist a-bound Last Line: My bwones when I do vall asleep. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Towns; Walking BEAUTY STILL WAITS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blent delight of summer! Far and faint Last Line: To show her forth, for man's most fond regard. Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Summer BEING A HERMIT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I'll be a hermit, in this tree Last Line: But mother's calling now for tea! Subject(s): Children; Summer; Wisdom; Childhood BERRYING TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! For the fields and meadows Last Line: That ripen in july. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BIG BANDS: LIBERAL, KANSAS, SUMMER OF 1955, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were supposed to be dead, but they kept coming Last Line: Then groaning into gear and slipping through the starlit %night Subject(s): Kansas; Music And Musicians; Summer BIRD AND CLOUD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Lord, if that cloud still grows and swells Last Line: And his mind has no complaint? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Contentment; Seasons; Summer; Sun BIRDS' LAWN PARTY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The birds of the woodland, in soft summer weather Subject(s): Nature; Summer BOSTON IN SUMMER, WITH A CONFESSION, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected transcripts on the steps of Last Line: And april dung storms. Subject(s): Confessions; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Journeys; Trips BREAKING CAMP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps BRIDE ONE SUMMER EVENING, by SARAH SCHNEEWIND Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the grind of tires, barefoot Last Line: He said that whippoorwill could whoop all night Subject(s): Brides; Summer BROTHERS, by NILS CLAUSSON Poem Source First Line: Each summer when the others left for camp Last Line: For the boyish dreamer to catch you Subject(s): Brothers; Summer BURNT LANDS, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On other fields and other scenes the morn Last Line: Reiterates the rain-bird his complaint. Subject(s): Summer BUTTERFLY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Out in the garden wee elsie Subject(s): Nature; Summer BUTTERFLY'S LESSON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lilies were swinging their fair, white bells Subject(s): Nature; Summer BY THE WAYSIDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer's face was rosiest, skies and woods were mellow Last Line: Fair as heaven and kind as earth? Subject(s): Heaven; Light; Love; Summer; Paradise CALIFORNIAN, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It began like this: a radio Subject(s): Summer; Drought; Death; Songs; Dead, The CALLAVERIA RUSTICANA, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the fireflies in the world Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Opera; Summer CAMPING AT THE HEADLANDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love each landscape Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CAMPING OUT, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: And now she cleans her teeth into the lake Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps CANOEBIAL BLISS, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, summer is sweet, and its sky is so blue Subject(s): Summer; Canoes & Canoeing CANTICLE, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Devoutly worshipping the oak Last Line: And hurries from the hill. Subject(s): Contentment; Prayer; Summer CAPTIVE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes, the summer dies Last Line: One rapture of the wilderness! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Longing; Summer; Dead, The CHANT AT THE END OF A BEGINNINGLESS SUMMER, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is overcast & I am undercast & the fog creeps in on little iceberg feet Last Line: A weirdo of fifty Subject(s): Summer CHEEK OF JUNE, by ELIZABETH MORROW Poem Text First Line: Roses are red for summer's blood runs sealed Last Line: Knowing they pledge their faith in summer's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve Subject(s): Flowers; Red (color); Roses; Summer CHELAN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: In a decades-long dance gomez and alverro Last Line: The bees are gone summer sits overlong %and too much fruit weighs down the trees Subject(s): Fields; Frost; Fruit; Summer CHILDHOOD FANCIES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The twilight gray is falling Subject(s): Nature; Summer CHILDHOOD'S INHERITANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the blue vault of a summer sky Last Line: Entered the little doorway of his home. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Inheritance And Succession; Summer; Childhood CHRISTMAS SONNET TO E. C. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When days were long, and o'er that farm Last Line: Yet with your blossom from one root it grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Christmas; Fields; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908); Summer; Nativity, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEAR SUMMER DAWN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Eyeballs it with a quawk Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer CLEMATIS MONTANA, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flocks of itinerant stars, flung from night's Last Line: Pool of the soul's wide summer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Butterflies; Insects; Stars; Summer; Bugs CLIMATIC SORCERY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When frost's all on our winder, an' the snow's Last Line: Ner his mustache ain't white, ner he ain't old. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Milk; Summer; Weather; Milkmen; Milkmaids CLOUDS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High above us, slowly sailing Subject(s): Nature; Summer COLD AUGUST, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had shrunk to a dime Last Line: Them disappear in southward course. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): August; Birds; Cold; Hawks; Summer COLD COFFEE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold coffee. In the wintertime he would've Last Line: Between her knees. And the thunder rolls. Subject(s): Coffee; Summer COLLAGE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summers / summers Last Line: Summers / summers Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Family Life; Summer COLUMBINES; SUMMER - 1982, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: Columbines are blooming right now, between the honeysuckle Last Line: They have given up claims to royalty forever Subject(s): Columbines; Plants; Summer COMING SUMMER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What will the summer bring Last Line: Summer, all hail! Subject(s): Summer CONCERNS OF SUMMER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Finally, my time is my own, all of it really my own, I may Last Line: Who will help me now to gnaw eternity Subject(s): Self; Solitude; Summer CONTRA MORTEM: THE SUMMER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cicadas blur the ear as the blue heat haze Last Line: Uniting all this knowledge with the earth Subject(s): Summer COOL REFLECTIONS DURING A MIDSUMMER WALK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O spare me -- spare me, phoebus! If, indeed Last Line: Nymph of the stream, now take a grateful prayer. Subject(s): Beauty; Happiness; Mythology - Classical; Nature - Religious Aspects; Paganism & Pagans; Prayer; Summer; Joy; Delight COTTON PLANT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing, oh sing for the cotton plant! Subject(s): Nature; Summer COUNTRY SUMMER, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood Last Line: Morning and evening in the corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COUSIN, by REGINA WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Summers, your family came from slave lake Last Line: Feathers, sand, these tiny white roots Subject(s): Cousins; Summer CRADLE SONG, by CARIS BROOKE Poem Text First Line: O blue eyes close in slumber Last Line: While baby is asleep. Subject(s): Nature; Summer CREDENCES OF SUMMER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now in midsummer come and all fools slaughtered Subject(s): Summer CREDENCES OF SUMMER, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now in midsummer come and all fools slaughtered Last Line: Their parts as in a youthful happiness Subject(s): Summer CUCKOO SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Summer is I-cumen [or a-coming or y-comen] in Last Line: "sing cuckoo. Sing, cuckoo, now!" Variant Title(s): The Cuckoo Song Subject(s): Birds;cuckoos;nature;spring;summer DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAN PAINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend of mine, whose chiming name Last Line: Smile on me just as now, dan paine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fate; Friendship; Summer; Destiny DARK AND FALLING SUMMER, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was full of the freshness Last Line: Everywhere was full of the pulsing of the loud and fallen dusk Subject(s): Rain; Summer DAY OF THE INDIAN SUMMER, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day of golden beauty! Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day DEAD ELK ON THE TUNDRA BESIDE THE TOURIST PATH, by ROBERT TREMMEL Poem Source First Line: It is the summer of snow Last Line: In the palms of our hands Subject(s): Russia; Summer DEEP SUMMER, by HARRIET GRAY BLACKWELL Poem Text First Line: The sun flings golden coins of heat Last Line: There is no hint of snow beyond. Subject(s): Summer DEPARTURE OF SUMMER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waving her hand sadly Last Line: Although she promises that she'll be back Subject(s): Summer DESCRIPTION OF A SUMMER'S EVE, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down the sultry arc of day Last Line: And join the general troop of sleep Subject(s): Evening; Summer DEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mamma,' said little isabel Subject(s): Nature; Summer DIRGE, by INEZ CLARK THORSEN Poem Text First Line: Summer is dead - / gone from us now Last Line: Snow in her hair Subject(s): Summer DISCONTENT, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in a field, one day in june Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Nature; Summer DOG-GOD, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the railroad tracks at the bottom of summer Last Line: To master what is beautiful and guileless and mute Subject(s): Girls; Railroads; Summer DOZEN DEAD HOUSEFLIES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of summer, smashed on the sill Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Flies; Nature; Summer DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DROUGHT, by SALLY LOGAN Poem Source First Line: My first summer of marriage Last Line: Until my husband trapped it, then let it go Subject(s): Drought; Heat; Marriage; Summer DUALISMS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two bees within a crystal flowerbell rocked Last Line: Summer's tanling diamond-eyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Summer DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs DUTY'S REWARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was an english summer day Last Line: The train had not touched a hair Subject(s): Railroads;summer; Railways;trains EACH SUMMER SOUND, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Is a summer round Subject(s): Summer EARLY JUNE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's over, over. The gold meadows / tarnish Last Line: Already the leaves falling, and the brave boughs grown leaner. Subject(s): June; Summer EARLY ONE SUMMER NIGHT, by LENNART SJOGREN Poem Source First Line: Creation winks %the nightjar minds his business Last Line: It lays an egg and laughs Subject(s): Happiness; Laughter; Summer EARLY SUMMER, by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: A mild breeze in the courtyard, the headrest is cool Last Line: I can hear the first sounds of the new cicadas Subject(s): Summer EARLY SUMMER, by ZHU ZHONGXIAN Poem Source First Line: Fading reds have fallen and the sun has set Last Line: Elm seeds like gold coins cover the ground while orioles sing Subject(s): Summer EARLY SUMMER (2), by XIE WUNIANG Poem Source First Line: Amidst birds' cries, I return from my midday dream Last Line: Blows poplar flowers into the house Subject(s): Summer EARTH AND A WEDDED WOMAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd, with his eye on hazy south Last Line: Thrice beauteous is our sunshine after rain! Subject(s): Earth; Rain; Summer; World ECHO AND SILENCE, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In eddying course when leaves began to fly Last Line: With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill! Subject(s): Indian Summer; Mysticism EDDY-GRAMS: 1. EDDY BLEW HIMSELF, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy bilt his mountin camp Last Line: He'll blow his hed off yet. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EDDY-GRAMS: 2. EDDY BUM PROOF CELLER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When eddy blasted out that hole Last Line: Oh boy—fur me his celler. Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Camping; Camps; Summer Camps EDUCATION OF DESIRE: 12, by WILLIAM DICKEY Poem Source First Line: On the white road Last Line: Of his eager feet Subject(s): Summer EDVARD GRIEG, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The light across the fjord is very cool Last Line: The very scene I look on here tonight. Subject(s): Light; Love; Norway; Sea; Summer; Ocean ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 1, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Earth. Red earth. And tall grass as far as you can see. You're pressed to the Last Line: You'll end your way. I, of course, always return. You don't. Which makes all %the difference Subject(s): Hunting; Indian Summer; Wilderness END OF SUMMER, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: The summer is so radiant / I cannot see it go Last Line: And so can never die. Subject(s): Summer END OF SUMMER, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Before this hiatus, the summer was assiduous and distant Last Line: Take their seats like jockeys mounted on horses Subject(s): Seasons; Summer END OF SUMMER, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the green a flame of scarlet leaps Last Line: Where love's proud angels will be singing! Subject(s): Summer END OF SUMMER, CITY OF THE TRIBES, by RODNEY THEODORE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Word circling on the street Last Line: Behind the medieval city, %its backlit and blood-rinsed stones Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, R. T. Subject(s): Summer EPIGRAM: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wandering gadling in the summer tide Last Line: To sting that heart that would have my place. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 46 Subject(s): Summer; Wandering & Wanderers EPITOMIZED, by ERICH S. KLOSSNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never hear a meadowlark in spring Last Line: Within a single, boundless, summer day! Subject(s): Summer ERA OF CLEANNESS, by LEWIS HORNE Poem Source First Line: A dream of summer, early summer. May Last Line: Of growing, a system for facing badlands weather Subject(s): Summer EVENING, by MALCOLM MERRITT Poem Text First Line: As leaves go down to autumn Last Line: From the peace of midian. Subject(s): Autumn; Evening; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Sunset; Twilight EVENING IN SUMMER, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The sun has set at last! The sky Last Line: The world with a perpetual song. Subject(s): Summer EVENING OUT, by JANICE TOWNLEY MOORE Poem Source First Line: On days too hot for breath to be easy Last Line: Sinking into the red clay bank Subject(s): Summer EVERY WILD FLOWER'S FACE, by JIM DEWITT Poem Source First Line: Craves attention Last Line: Almost too brightly virgin Subject(s): Colors; Flowers; Summer EX AETATE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for more hours of bliss I make demand Last Line: Of sunshine, certain memory of them. Subject(s): Life; Summer EXCEPT THE SMALLER SIZE, NO LIVES ARE ROUND, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Are long Subject(s): Size & Shape; Time; Summer EXULTATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rain surpasses itself. It has gone beyond itself to the contours of a Last Line: To exult at the brilliant fulfillment of a summer day Subject(s): Rain; Seasons; Summer; Weather FABLE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know not what the sly little fairy Subject(s): Nature; Summer FAIR SUMMER-TIME DOTH ME DELIGHT, by RAIMON DE MIRAVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Joyless I cannot be while I live on Alternate Author Name(s): Ramon De Miraval Subject(s): Summer FALL PLOWING, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Fades indian summer's brief, bright interlude Last Line: Grim relics that are withered, bleached and gray. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Plowing & Plowmen FALLING DAY, by CHRISTY MACKAYE Poem Text First Line: If there's silence in summer Last Line: That you hear. Subject(s): Day; Summer; Sun FANTASY, FROM 'AN ADJUSTABLE LUNATIC', by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beneath a summer moon Last Line: Through life and all eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fantasy; Life; Moon; Soul; Summer FAREWELL TO SUMMER, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is fading; the broad leaves that grew Last Line: Sweet, farewell! Subject(s): Summer FASHIONS AT THE COURT OF QUEEN FLORA, by LYDIA HOYT FARMER Poem Source First Line: Oh, pray, do you know of those wonderful styles Subject(s): Nature; Summer FAT SOUTHERN MEN IN SUMMER SUITS, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fat southern men in their summer suit Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Summer; Southern States; South (u.s.) FATI VALET HORA BENIGNI, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In myriad swarms, each summer sun Last Line: When all those hours -- are play. Subject(s): Play; Summer FERAL CHILDREN, by JAMES FINNEGAN Poem Source First Line: It is august and their bodies are tanned Last Line: Of those wild islands only they have seen Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Summer FIELD QUILT, by HATTIE B. TERRILL Poem Text First Line: Late summer sends her mystic haze Last Line: Makes dark gray ribbon for the binding. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FLAG, OUR FLAG, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Flag, that waves the whole day through Last Line: Glorious red, white and blue. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Summer; American Flag FLAGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Flags of every size Last Line: Or only from my hand. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Summer; American Flag FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE'S MAGIC, by BARBARA SCHMITT WHITNEY Poem Text First Line: Summer slipped to us in the chill december Last Line: Winter had vanished! Subject(s): December; Summer; Winter FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw. Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze FOR A SUMMER NIGHT, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: At first, a bar-like this one. Then you'd need Last Line: This is what's left to hope for. Oh, dear god, more music Subject(s): Guests; Summer FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs Last Line: Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something. Subject(s): Summer FOR THE LAST SUMMER, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That summer with a thousand julys Subject(s): Music, Rock; Youth; Summer; War; Desire; Rock & Roll FOUR IN THE MORNING COURAGE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds this morning wakened me so early it was hardly day Last Line: The starling waked me ere the day aping the thrush's sober tune). Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Birds; Morning; Summer FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept under rhododendron Subject(s): Camping; Oregon; Love; Youth; Memory; Camps; Summer Camps FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 3. SUMMER IN AUVERGNE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sundawn fills the land Last Line: That scars their land. Subject(s): Dawn; Nature; Summer; Sun; Sunrise FOUR SUNBEAMS, by M. K. B. Poem Source First Line: Four little sunbeams came earthward one day Subject(s): Nature; Summer FOUR YEARS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the midsummer, when the hay was down Last Line: And I go at midsummer, when the hay is down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Summer FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FROM BELOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dim summer night they were leaning alone Last Line: Where he dropped his cigar in the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Opera; Summer; Bedtime GARDEN SNAKES, by ROBERT MOORE Poem Source First Line: Every summer since we bought this house Last Line: I'd ask him %but just imagine the look I'd get Subject(s): Animals; Snakes; Summer GARDEN SYMPHONY, by HAZEL FRYE SCHWENTKER Poem Text First Line: My mother's garden brings to me Last Line: Of flower-misted summertime. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mothers; Summer GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GIRL RIDING BAREBACK, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These late summer afternoons are so like childhood's Subject(s): Horses; Imagination; Summer; Fancy GO, WINTER!, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, winter! Go thy ways! We Last Line: In her first marigold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Summer; Winter GOD'S WEATHER: AUGUST, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: God's peace and the moon on the meadow's dead clover Last Line: With the mists and the moon and the weather—god's weather. Subject(s): Prairies; Summer; Weather; Plains GOD'S WEATHER: JULY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The heavy shade bends to tall clover and grasses Last Line: Growing, grateful for grace of hot weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Months; Summer; Weather GOD'S WEATHER: OCTOBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The cold late rain drips from the low clouds close palling Last Line: The haze on the home hill and weather, god's weather. Subject(s): Cold; Months; Summer; Weather GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 1, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always the august evenings come Last Line: Of our marionettes %inconsequent, intolerable Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 2. EMBARQUEMENT POUR CYTHERE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, the moon is on its way! Last Line: Philosophy through a paper straw Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Leisure; Summer; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 3, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On every sultry afternoon Last Line: Bays %and rose Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GOLDFISH (ESSENCE OF SUMMER MAGAZINES): 4, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among the debris of the year Last Line: Of street pianos and small beer Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Leisure; Summer GOOD-BY SUMMER, by CAROLINE CONVERSE Poem Text First Line: O summer, you have said good - by once more Last Line: And o the splendor of your golden days! Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Summer; Fall GOWANUS, LATE SUMMER, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees flinch in late summer air over boerum hill. We already Subject(s): Summer; Vacations GRASSHOPPER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A grasshopper sat in an oak tree green Subject(s): Nature; Summer GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grassy meadow school Last Line: That the best thing is to grow! Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S GARDEN, by M. J. JACQUES Poem Source First Line: Come into great-grandmother's garden, my dears Subject(s): Nature; Summer GREEN APPLES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In august we carried the old horsehair mattress Subject(s): Apples; Summer; Family Life; Relatives HAIKU, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Napped half the day Last Line: Punished me Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Summer HAPPY BIRD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, if I were a little bird Subject(s): Nature; Summer HAREBELLS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When the grasses sway and quiver Last Line: "june has come to town!" Subject(s): Harebells; Summer HAREBELLS IN JUNE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ring slender bells an elfin tune Last Line: Call all the elves of june together. Subject(s): Harebells; Summer HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes HAY-MEAKEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis merry ov a zummer's day Last Line: The vo'k in haÿ-vield all day long. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Hay & Haymaking; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days Last Line: And all its face is odorous again. Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HE SAID TURN HERE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then tony showed us the lake Subject(s): Lakes; Summer; Grief; Pools; Ponds; Sorrow; Sadness HEAT, by SUSAN HAHN Poem Source First Line: Soon the dazed glory heat will be replaced by leaves - Last Line: Touch how it burns into my sight %for when you are not Subject(s): Heat; Seasons; Summer HEAT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From plains that reel to southward, dim Last Line: My thoughts grow keen and clear. Subject(s): Heat; Summer HEAVENLY REST, by CAROL STEVENS KNER Poem Source First Line: Summer lightens everything, beech leaves Last Line: In paradise. But everyone is dead Subject(s): Heaven; Summer HENDECASYLLABICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the month of the long decline of roses Last Line: "iron blossom of frost is bound for ever." Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Wind HER EYES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, long ago, a little one of mine Last Line: The christ-like candor of those early eyes! Subject(s): Eyes; Faces; Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed HIDDEN SONGSTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hear you not that long, shrill strain? Subject(s): Nature; Summer HIGH SUMMER, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the birds are flown, the first, the second brood Last Line: Talks forgotten battles with a tear in his eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Summer; English HILL TIDES, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL Poem Text First Line: These rolling billows of the hills Last Line: And wash it golden clean for me. Subject(s): Mountains; Summer; Tides; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall HOJOKI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Venus in the pale green sky Last Line: Busy all night long tonight Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter HOLIDAYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Of all, the flowers love a holiday Last Line: Love the days when school is out. Subject(s): Children; Holidays; Play; Summer; Vacation; Childhood HOLLYHOCKS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Whether they grow by a cabin door Last Line: Hung on the sky's blue wall. Subject(s): Hollyhocks; Nature; Summer HOME, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A burst of sudden wings at dawn Last Line: That call across the world to me. Subject(s): Home; Ireland; Rainbows; Summer; World War I; Irish; First World War HOME BEFORE DARK, by NATHALIE G. KETTERER Poem Source First Line: Standing in the hot summer silence Last Line: From the trees. %I must go back Subject(s): Family Life; Summer HONEYDEW IN SEASON, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: As soon as I'm pierced by the shock of its sweetness Last Line: I thought it would take years before cycles became apparent %and summer stayed hardly at all Subject(s): Fruit; Summer HOPPER: CONFESSIONS: SUMMER INTERIOR, by ANNE CARSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer smeared the day, you slid Last Line: Spoke to themselves low, near / and tenderly Subject(s): Summer HOT SUMMER AFTERNOON, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Six choc'late milkshakes ready to drink Last Line: They couldn't possibly unless they were hollow. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Summer; Wine HOUSE ON 19TH STREET, by MARK SANDERS Poem Source First Line: On summer nights, before sleep, the sweet smell Last Line: And the night dissolved, like a boyhood, into morning Subject(s): Children; Houses; Memory; Summer HOW CAN THE HEART UNHAPPY BE?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Now dawn the lovely days again Last Line: How can the heart unhappy be? Subject(s): Happiness; Melodies; Summer; Sun; Joy; Delight I KNOW A PLACE WHERE SUMMER STRIVES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon her amber shoe Subject(s): Summer I KNOW THE WAY OF THE WILD BLUSH ROSE, by WILLARD EMERSON KEYES Poem Text First Line: I know the way of the wild blush rose Last Line: For the love of a maid is for aye and aye! Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Red (color); Roses; Summer; Sun I RECKON - WHEN I COUNT AT ALL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: To justify the dream Subject(s): Summer; Poetry & Poets; Heaven I SAIL IN THE FALL, by DAVID STEFANSSON Poem Text First Line: Summer is dying, is dying Last Line: And sail in the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Stefansson Fra Fagraskogi, David Subject(s): Summer I SEE THE BOYS OF SUMMER, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boys of summer in their ruin Subject(s): Summer IDLE HOURS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye idle hours of summer, not in vain Last Line: O'er vasty deeps of the unknown and unseen. Subject(s): Beauty; Nature; Summer IF ANYTHING CAN, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of those dark days Last Line: Wondering what to do, what can be done Subject(s): Summer IF YOU GET THERE BEFORE I DO, by DICK ALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Air out the linens, unlatch the shutters on the eastern side, Subject(s): Old Age; Summer IMPROBABLE, by ANGELA SHAW Poem Source First Line: August lingers, the improbable %scent of a lover thought Last Line: Kindly regrets %that it cannot %embrace %my name Subject(s): Summer; Women's Rights IMPROMPTU ON A SUMMER DAY, by CHEN DEYI Poem Source First Line: Bamboo in the garden, layers of green Last Line: I stroll at ease listening to frogs in the pond Subject(s): Summer IN A HOTEL WRITING-ROOM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We artists have strange nerves! Last Line: We had met before this scene. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Faces; Friendship; Hate; Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IN DREAMS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love, my love, when falls the summer rain Last Line: And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares IN FIELDS OF SUMMER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises Last Line: A lark bursts up all dew. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN FRANCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let not a foreign earth weigh down my head Last Line: They will know I am theirs; they will make room. Subject(s): France; Love; Summer IN HEAT, by KEVIN BOYLE Poem Source First Line: The summer heats past luxuriance, the day lilies Last Line: Those little black eyes don't flinch. Just fire Subject(s): Heat; Summer IN SUMMER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, summer has clothed the earth Last Line: And sing in the face of ill. Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER, by SARAH KIRSCH Poem Source First Line: Sparsely settled, this land Last Line: And the fields gleam red as fire Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's growing evening in my soul Last Line: And memory falls from the mast of thought. Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER (1), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the light, late in the afternoon, pauses among Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER (1), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the light, late in the afternoon, pauses among Last Line: The sunlight tarries with Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM WARREN CALDWELL Poem Source First Line: O linden-trees! Whose branches high Last Line: More sweet to hear, or fair to see Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER TIME, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer time has come, and all Last Line: In summer time to simply be. Subject(s): Summer IN SUMMER-TIME WHEN MARY BATHES, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The only day it has to live! Subject(s): Baths & B Athing; Summer IN SUMMERTIME, by MARY ROYCE MERRIMAN Poem Text First Line: A marsh bird swinging on a slender reed Last Line: And a blue lake, a glowing pageantry. Subject(s): Summer IN THE LANE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my love came home to me Last Line: Take her home for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Home; Love; Summer IN THE MEADOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The meadow is a battle-field Subject(s): Nature; Summer IN THE MEADOWS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the summer meadows Last Line: But death is in the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fields; Life; Summer; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE MELON COLONY, by KIMBERLY JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: When you summered at the melon colony Last Line: It has been summer for years Subject(s): Summer IN THE MOON OF MAKING FAT, by MALENA MORLING Poem Source First Line: Summer has opened its bag of heat Last Line: And the sunlight that is pushng through fibers. %and the drawn curtains Subject(s): New York City; Summer IN THE SWING, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: Here we go to the branches high! Subject(s): Nature; Summer IN THE TUNNEL OF SUMMERS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from day into day Subject(s): Life; Summer; Mortality IN THE VALLEY, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said the yellow-haired spirit of spring Last Line: "of the nightfall, and falter, and die." Subject(s): Flowers; Summer IN THE VERY HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Of the sun and %unmasked earth Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Summer; Watermelons INDIAN DRUMS, by ISABEL WINSLOW Poem Text First Line: Indian summer camps in the hills Last Line: Where her bright fires are burning! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps INDIAN SUMMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When leaves grow sear all things take sombre hue Last Line: Return to us in some sweet by-and-by Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "there is a time, just when the frost" Last Line: And smiles to think it's all for him Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Source First Line: That soft autumnal time Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INDIAN SUMMER, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: The grain is gathered in Subject(s): Holidays; Indian Summer; Thanksgiving Day INDIAN SUMMER, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Along the line of smoky hills Last Line: Throughout the long, still autumn day %wild birds are flying south Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn is a warp of fever Last Line: To pile at her feet for this. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by HELENA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Of all earth's varied, lovely moods Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Through the boughs of em'rald green Last Line: Always stay. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the days when birds come back Last Line: Taste thine immortal wine! Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At last there came %the sudden fall of frost, when time Last Line: Moved silently, as if in dream - %and it was indian summer on the plain Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by HELEN JANE HOPPER Poem Text First Line: Softly through the pine trees Last Line: All the world is still. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by J. P. IRVINE Poem Source First Line: At last the toil encumbered days Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature INDIAN SUMMER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have strayed from silent places Last Line: I am gone! Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms shaken from their star forms Last Line: Give me love before you go! Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stillness that doth wait on change is here Last Line: Shalt dream again—how dying nature smiled. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Seasons INDIAN SUMMER, by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the purple haze that lies Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by BETH PIRSCH Poem Text First Line: It is still; there is only the music Last Line: The golden day is meant for golden dreams. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Love INDIAN SUMMER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis indian summer's richest, latest day Last Line: O saddest indian summer! Fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Indian Summer; New Hampshire INDIAN SUMMER, by DERYN REES-JONES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes it's as if we're lost Last Line: Lazily trailing one ungloved hand Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: When maples flaunt their colors far and near Last Line: —presbyterian advance Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature; Nature - Religious Aspects INDIAN SUMMER, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Faint blue the distant hills before Last Line: Fall of a leaf against the blue. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College INDIAN SUMMER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere winter puts his icy mantle on Last Line: Of winter come. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lyric night of the lingering indian summer Last Line: Lest they forget them. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A silken curtain veils the skies Last Line: The camp-fires of the past are burning. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more the battle or the chase Last Line: Ascends to heaven again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature INDIAN SUMMER DAY ON THE PRAIRIE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is a huntress young Last Line: He builds him a crimson nest Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER, 1953, by ROGER+(2) WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: We sang dense psalms to rejoice peace in korea Last Line: Husks and hard red corn. Horns of plenty %bulge their cram Subject(s): Summer INDIAN SUMMER: 2, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As leaves fall from the trees, the body falls from the soul Last Line: Dead leaves and dead grass in november, purple in spring Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE PLEDGE!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The promise writ in gold to the water's edge Last Line: The sun he bids stand still till the day is won. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Indian Summer INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE SIGN!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline Last Line: And all the fairy lakes are beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Nature INDIAN SUMMER: THIS IS THE WORD!, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That makes a thing of flame the water-bird Last Line: Are not delivered to the insatiable sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): God; Indian Summer; Praise INDIAN SUMMERS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the wall / vine leaves / in his eye Last Line: No end to the things made out of human talk Subject(s): Indian Summer INJUN SUMMAH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: De injun summah's comin' Last Line: So't o' hangin' roun' us all. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Summer ISLAND FEVER, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Here where it is always summer Last Line: I hold it against my forehead Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Islands; Seashore; Summer ISLANDS, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Summer's first day, earlier Last Line: Keep them floating, with my breath Subject(s): Islands; Summer IT WILL BE SUMMER - EVENTUALLY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: When sacrament - is done Variant Title(s): Poem: 342; Poem: 37 Subject(s): Summer JOHN WEISS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes again, yet nothing brings Last Line: And aeschylus and shakspeare lived again. Subject(s): Memory; Summer; Weiss, John (1818-1879) JOHNSON'S ANTIDOTE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down along the snakebite river where the overlanders camp Last Line: Somehow seems to dodge the subject of the snakebite antidote. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Life; Snakes; Camps; Summer Camps; Serpents; Vipers JULY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue july, bright july Last Line: To the nightingale's 'sweet-sweet.' Subject(s): July; Seasons; Summer JULY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long and hot days go by Last Line: In july. Subject(s): July; Summer JULY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Deep pools of shade beneath dense maples Last Line: The ant-children busy and lazy below Subject(s): Summer JULY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: July's for independence day Last Line: July comes for flags and play. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Holidays; Summer; American Flag; Independence Day JULY IN MONTANA, by LILLA BOGERT Poem Text First Line: Green sanctuaries in the hills Last Line: Gay coronets for all! Subject(s): Montana; Summer JULY IN WASHINGTON, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Washington, D.c.; Politics & Government; Summer JULY MEETING, by PETER DAVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crow hollered, barking darkness like a trumpet Subject(s): Birds; Summer JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June in the grass! Last Line: Summer is here. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Daisies; Flowers; Grass; June; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens JUNE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, cuckoo, come Last Line: To my mind to live in. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Summer Subject(s): Flowers; June; Summer JUNE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A roof of blue, a carpet green Last Line: A very fairy month is june! Subject(s): Summer JUNE IN LONDON (WITH PUPILS), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Books and heat, the dullard mind Last Line: For her heart on this bright june morning! Subject(s): London; Summer JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the long day dies in summer and flowers are closing Last Line: Lurks all night long low down on the skyline gray. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime JUNE NIGHTS, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In summer, when the day is gone Last Line: Dawn waits its hour. Subject(s): June; Night; Summer; Bedtime JUNE SUNSET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here shall my heart find its haven of calm Last Line: To herald a rising moon. Subject(s): Love; Summer JUNE'S FLAG, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: June flung her flag out Last Line: And wave on so forever, bright flag of the free! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Summer; American Flag; Liberty JUNE'S PICTURE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Let me paint june's picture-first I Last Line: And so you have june's picture here before your eyes. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones KEF 21, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First there was the earth in my mouth. Subject(s): Summer KIRTLE RED, by W. H. BELLAMY Poem Text First Line: A damsel fair, on a summer's day Last Line: —sing heigh, sing ho, for the summer! Subject(s): Love; Summer KITTY'S SUMMERING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen e'er a sign of my kitty? Last Line: On the south side of washington square. Subject(s): Longing; New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple KLAMATH SUMMER, by VIRGINIA WHITE BROWN Poem Text First Line: Sun and clouds Last Line: Waiting for rain. Subject(s): Klamath, Oregon; Summer KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America LADY SUMMER, by WILLIAM MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birdie, birdie, weet your whistle! Last Line: "I'll toot on anither horn." Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery Subject(s): Birds; Summer LADYBUG, LADYBUG, HASTE AWAY HOME!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Nature; Summer LAMPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The sun's a lamp so large and round Last Line: Shining in the earth and skies. Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood LANDSCAPE, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that summer's ripen'd bloom Subject(s): Summer LANDSCAPE WITH A LAKE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Over & over you've returned all summer, Last Line: Tell the truth. Don't leave me. Subject(s): Lakes; Summer LAST OF SUMMER IS DELIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: To walk within the veil Variant Title(s): Poem: 1353; Poem: 138 Subject(s): Summer LAST ROWS OF SUMMER, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: From here, the players look like ants Last Line: Most dust and spit stay far below Subject(s): Games; Summer LATCH IS OFF: SUMMER SQUASH WITH ZUCCHINI, by JENNIFER MOSS Poem Source First Line: Red placecloths and blue china Last Line: On the underside of my elbow Subject(s): Food And Eating; Summer; Vegetables LATE FOR SUMMER WEATHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has on / an old light grey fedora Subject(s): Summer; Clothing & Dress LATE INDIAN SUMMER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rains hold off another week Last Line: Exhausted and stunned Subject(s): Indian Summer LATE SUMMER, by KINOSHITA YUJI Poem Source First Line: The pumpkin tendrils creep Last Line: Rests his clippers Subject(s): Summer LATE SUMMER, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: How I rejoice in thy delights Last Line: And dwell alone with fantasy. Subject(s): Happiness; Summer; Joy; Delight LATE SUMMER: LAKE ERIE, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nearly a year since word of death Last Line: Dreaming of love and survival Subject(s): Summer; Lake Erie; Death LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 7. MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whilst early sink away the starry twins Last Line: Of glowing june. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer; Sun LEAVING THE ISLAND, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We roll up the rugs and strip the neds by rote Subject(s): Summer; Vacation; Moving LEAVING THE MARKED TRAIL, BEHIND THE CEMETERY, THE OLD HARBOR, BLOCK.., by ALAN CATLIN Poem Source First Line: Emerging from woods at high Last Line: The sea and the south beyond Subject(s): Block Island; Drought; Summer LEITH RACES, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In july month, ae bonny morn Last Line: Wi' straiks thir days! Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Horse Racing; Summer LEONAINIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leonainie - angels named her Last Line: From me like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; God; Summer; Death - Babies LESSONS, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Late august finds tomatoes on the vine Last Line: And its shape were cut in stone Subject(s): Learning; Summer LETTER FROM THE SUMMER HOUSE, by OKSANA ZABUZHKO Poem Source First Line: Hello, dear. After the recent acid rains Last Line: I've exhausted the ones I know. %kisses. Love, o Subject(s): Letters; Summer LETTING THE OLD CAT DIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Not long ago I wandered near Subject(s): Nature; Summer LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toward even when the day leans down Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime LIFE AT THE LAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The green below and the blue Last Line: The blue above and the green below. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds LIFE DRAWS A TREE, by ROBERTO JUARROZ Poem Source Last Line: And the tree of death Subject(s): Life; Summer LIFE IS A SUMMER'S DAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And it is gone Subject(s): Summer; Conduct Of Life LIKE CORIANDER SEED, LIKE HONEY, by JENNY DESAI Poem Source First Line: That summer, bodies offered up Last Line: Showing us the way to go on Subject(s): Summer LIKE SOME OLD-FASHIONED MIRACLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And ear — and heaven — numb Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories LILY'S BALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Lily gave a party Subject(s): Nature; Summer LINES, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Come to the vintage feast! Last Line: While the bead-drop foams on the beaker's brim. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Flowers; Summer; Vines & Vineyards LINES ON THE SUMMER OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE: 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer long, and bright, and glowing Last Line: Lord, remove thy chast'ning hand! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cattle; Death - Animals; Nature; Plague; Summer LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little eskimo, are you Last Line: Like to live in our land, too? Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips LITTLE NANNIE, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fawn-footed nannie Subject(s): Nature; Summer LITTLE SUNBEAM, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Little yellow sunbeam Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Nature; Summer LONDON IN JULY, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What ails my senses thus to cheat? Last Line: That is enough for me. Subject(s): London; Summer LONDON'S SUMMER MORNING, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not waked to list the busy sounds Last Line: To paint the summer morning. Subject(s): London; Summer LOST SUMMER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart hath its springtime, yea Last Line: And spring's unrest in blossom time. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Summer LOST SUMMER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither are you fled Last Line: Summertime and roses? Subject(s): Seasons; Summer LOVE IN EXILE: SONG, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, the roses are still on fire Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Roses; Summer; Love LOVE POEM, by LESLIE MARMON SILKO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rain smell comes with the wind Subject(s): Summer; Love; Rain LOVE'S ACCOUNTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunburnt summer less devours Last Line: Love, for love of you. Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Love; Pain; Seasons; Summer; Woods; Suffering; Misery LOW TIDE AT ST. ANDREWS (NEW BRUNSWICK), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long red flats stretch open to the sky Last Line: The silence of the sands when tides are low. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Sea; Summer; Ocean LYRIC, by SUN PU-ERH Poem Source First Line: Late indian summer's Last Line: Plain heart seeing into plain heart Subject(s): Indian Summer LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 50, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the glimmering summer morning Last Line: Thou mournful and pale-faced man! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Summer LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 53, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lies the glow of summer Last Line: The summer in thy breast! Subject(s): Love; Summer; Winter MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itself Subject(s): Insanity; Summer; Madness; Mental Illness MADNESS FREQUENTLY DISCOVERS ITSELF IN LOVE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In august the salt-spray of the sea-town Last Line: Do not move me. I buy some tea and cookies, %talk to no one Variant Title(s): Madness Frequently Discovers Itsel Subject(s): Insanity; Summer MAGUS MUIR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gently ye fall, ye summer showers Last Line: My soul might saved be! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Murder; Night; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime MAKING LIGHT OF IT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I call out a secret name, a name Last Line: Of his breath, making light of it all Subject(s): Home; Summer MAN ON THE RAFT, by JONATHAN GALASSI Poem Source First Line: The man on the raft Last Line: Nothing left for him to do %but try again tomorrow Subject(s): Day; Evening; Life; Summer; Sun MARCH OF TIME,' SUMMER, 1940, by MICHAEL CHARLES ALSTON MOTT Poem Source First Line: Coming to strut with the conquerers Last Line: Grandeur of emptiness %might be a fly Subject(s): France; Summer MAURINE: PART 7, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With much hard labor and some pleasure fraught Last Line: Gazing upon us from the mystic shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hope; Love; Soul; Summer; Tears; Women; Optimism MAY-DAY, by AARON HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, dear dawn of summer's rising sway Last Line: And the warmed world is sick with my sweet pains. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; May (month); Summer; Sun MEMENTOES, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: This afternoon pat bought Last Line: Move down the hill a little Subject(s): Summer MERRY SUNSHINE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Good morning, merry sunshine Subject(s): Nature; Summer MICHAELMAS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We had not thought the sky could burn so blue! Last Line: And know the hour is near when summer stops. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Michael, The Archangel; Saints; Summer; Michael, Saint MICHAELMAS DAISIES, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis more than mid-october, yet along the Last Line: Gives angels for the blossoms that old time has borne away. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Summer MICHIGAN SUMMER, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: By sweat and hunger, stealth and guile Last Line: Will find it easy now to die. Subject(s): Lakes; Michigan; Nature; Parks; Summer; Pools; Ponds MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Subject(s): Memory; Summer MID-AUGUST AT SOURDOUGH MOUNTAIN LOOKOUT, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down valley a smoke haze Last Line: Looking down for miles %through high still air Subject(s): Memory; Summer MIDDLE-AGED WALK IN THE PARK, by JOAN STERN Poem Source First Line: Now is the sweet season when summer Last Line: Facing west and dazzled by the sun Subject(s): Parks; Summer MIDNIGHT STROLL IN SEPTEMBER, by ANNETTE ABMA Poem Source First Line: The last of summer's warmth hung on the air Last Line: As the first of autumn's chill rose on the air Subject(s): Summer MIDNIGHT: EARLY SUMMER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER Poem Text First Line: Time softens to silk now Last Line: Is wrapped in prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson Subject(s): Birds; Silence; Sleep; Summer; Time MIDSUMMER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A power is on the earth and in the air Last Line: Its deadly breath into the firmament. Subject(s): Summer MIDSUMMER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here! Sweep these foolish leaves away Last Line: In sweeter music dies away. Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDSUMMER, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hereabouts the signs are good Last Line: Will find this right place to lay down %his desert in Subject(s): Summer MIDSUMMER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wide still valley, placid and deep Last Line: A glamour of beauty too perfect to cease. Subject(s): Peace; Summer; Sun MIDSUMMER, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY Poem Text First Line: I see the millet combing gold Last Line: That trembles, and dies in mounting. Subject(s): Summer MIDSUMMER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the may time, and after the june time Last Line: And love's midsummer will fade too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Soul; Summer MIDSUMMER 54, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks Last Line: The grateful grass will grow thick from his heart Subject(s): Summer MIDSUMMER DAY, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot write, I cannot think Last Line: Such dewy memories as these. Subject(s): Nature; Rites & Ceremonies; Summer MIDSUMMER DAYS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When roses bloom in wayside nooks Last Line: Of restful, ripe midsummer days. Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDSUMMER IN NEW ENGLAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The royalty of midsummer is here! Last Line: Their hearts' midsummer found, with bliss are dumb. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): New England; Summer MIDSUMMER IN THE CATSKILLS, by JOHN BURROUGHS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strident hum of sickle-bar Last Line: Swim in a sea of peace. Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Serenity; Summer MIDSUMMER LETTER, by DONALD HALL Poet's Biography First Line: The polished black granite Subject(s): August; Summer MIDSUMMER LETTER, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The polished black granite Last Line: To see it huge in the west %as if this were any august Subject(s): August; Summer MIDSUMMER MADNESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a hearthrug Subject(s): Rugs;solitude;summer; Carpets;loneliness MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by WILBUR UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night I could not sleep for swift desire and longing Last Line: And dreaming thus, at last I drank -- and sleep came with the dawn. Subject(s): Night; Sea; Sleep; Soul; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean MIDSUMMER NOCTURNE, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Among pine tips the hawks have sailed over Last Line: Cranks herself up and lets go Subject(s): Nature; Summer MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON Poem Text First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime MIDSUMMER: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Companion in rome, whom rome makes an old rome Last Line: Silver legions of mackerel race through our catacombs Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Summer MIDSUMMER: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the queen's park hotel, with its white, high-ceilinged rooms Last Line: A breeze strolls down to the docks, and the sea begins Subject(s): Hotels; Summer; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses MIDSUMMER: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This spanish port, piractical in deverseness Last Line: The plaza's cracked by the jungle's furious seed Subject(s): Africa; Summer MIDSUMMER: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hemispheres lie sweating, flesh to flesh Last Line: Rolls his bullets like beads. Glued to his own transistor Subject(s): Summer; New York City; Hamptons, New York MIDSUMMER: 54, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midsummer sea, the hot pitch road, this grass, these shacks Subject(s): Summer MIMI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm no modest city creature Last Line: Smiling rosily, aurora. Subject(s): Love; Summer; Voices MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic %hammer of welders' work Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom Variant Title(s): The Mimosa Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water MOCKING-BIRD'S SONG, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Early on a pleasant day Last Line: Thus, he dug the soldier's grave, %iser! By thy purpled wave Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): The Mocking-bir Subject(s): Nature; Summer MOONLIGHT IN SUMMER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low on the utmost boundary of the sight Last Line: High o'er his home and all his little woes. Subject(s): Summer MORE THAN ENOUGH, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first lily of june opens its red mouth. Subject(s): Summer; Spring; Flowers MORNING IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps MOTHER IN THE PARK, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Her children could drown Last Line: At the corner of her badly %lipsticked mouth Subject(s): Automobiles; Children; Mothers; Parks; Summer MRS. BRINDLE'S COWSLIP FEAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A cow lived in a pleasant field Subject(s): Nature; Summer MRS. PUSSY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Pussy, sleek and fat Subject(s): Nature; Summer MUSIC OF NATURE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Have you heard the waters singing Subject(s): Nature; Summer MUSINGS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the falling summer sun Last Line: The summer when our life was fair. Subject(s): Summer MY GARDEN, by HAZEL HANNA Poem Text First Line: Bluebells are nodding / so quaintly nearby Last Line: Elves, toads and bees. Subject(s): Summer MY GARDEN - LIKE THE BEACH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: She fetches such as me Variant Title(s): Poem: 469; Poem: 48 Subject(s): Summer MY HOME, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place that I love the best Last Line: The little brown house like a ground-bird's nest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Home; Summer; Sun MY MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mary, o my mary! Last Line: An' I dinna find ye there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Love; Nature; Spring; Summer MY SUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you think the summer will ever come Last Line: In the sun of my love from morn till night? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Summer NEAR A BUILDING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: That sad summer, the loneliest thing Last Line: Bone emphasising perfect bone Subject(s): Bones; Death; Solitude; Summer NECTARINES IN FEBRUARY, by KATHLEEN FLENNIKEN Poem Source First Line: What do children know of life Last Line: There are seasons only fit for wanting %to follow summer's sweetness Subject(s): Fruit; Innocence; Seasons; Summer NEITHER NOW, by MOLLY TENENBAUM Poem Source First Line: All summer I lived in the bees' house Last Line: A dried petal %in my multiform eye? Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Summer NIGHT FOR ADVENTURES, by VICTOR STARBUCK Poem Text First Line: Sometimes when fragrant summer dusk comes in with scent of rose and musk Last Line: Or have I spent the night in bed, and was it all a dream? Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Summer NIGHT IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poem Text First Line: Fierce burns our fire of driftwood; overhead Last Line: The darkness pushing down upon the land. Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps NIGHT IN CAMP, by SARAH SPENCER ROE Poem Text First Line: Sparks ascending from the fire Last Line: Presently to die. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Fireplaces; Forests; Wood; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods NIGHT IN SUMMER, by JEAN-DOMINIQUE HUMBERT Poem Source First Line: If you only knew how an hour lasts Last Line: Like the night without shadows %if you came Subject(s): Night; Summer NIGHT WINDS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: The slender moon in its silvery sheen Last Line: For what should the night winds sigh? Subject(s): Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Bedtime NIGHTS AND DAYS OF NINETEEN-SOMETHING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer with other men's lovers, fumbles Last Line: Come again for me. Take me to the boy Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mythology - Classical; Relationships; Sex; Summer O LARK OF THE SUMMER MORNING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love to lie in the clover Subject(s): Nature; Summer OCTOBER-NOVEMBER, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indian-summer-sun Last Line: Floods the grape-hung night. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Indian Summer; Nature; Trees ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, adieu Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer ODOR OF EARTH, by SHANNON BORG Poem Source First Line: As a child war was august's game: I typed a black code Last Line: Until the curved tooth %of zero turned o opened me deep in its pollen-mouth Subject(s): Children; Games; Nature; Summer OF THE DAY ESTIVALL, by ALEXANDER HUME Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O perfect light, which shaid away Last Line: Which sent this summer day! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Alexander Variant Title(s): A Summer Day;the Story Of A Summer Day Subject(s): Summer OFF SHORE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the might of the summer is most on the sea Last Line: But thou art the god, and thy kingdom is heaven, and thy shrine is the sea. Subject(s): Nature; Night; Sea; Summer; Bedtime; Ocean OH LOVELY ROCK, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of ventana creek, up the east fork. Last Line: Felt its intense reality with love and wonder, this lonely rock Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps OH! SKYLARK, FOR THY WING, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: O skylark! On thy wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Summer; Skylarks ON A DAY OF SUMMER, HOT DAY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: On a day of summer, hot day, when the sun is in the sky Last Line: And on my own I'll keep silence with my pain Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Summer ON A ROSE PRESSED IN A BOOK, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I win the summer back again Last Line: At touch of this dead rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more. Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean ON THE BEACH, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot help you' was the message Last Line: Away as a wing sewn by hand Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Love - Nature Of; Seashore; Summer ON THE WAY TO SUMMER, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May-day, the day of might, day of possibility Last Line: Scarlet petalsfor all the new worlds in earth Subject(s): Nature; Summer ON THE WEATHER, by FERRIS GREENSLET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sultry stillness of a summer's day Last Line: So hot! And all my ducks are in the wash. Subject(s): Summer ONE SUMMER NIGHT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was a thread between us! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Summer ORIGINAL SUMMER GIRL, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After much biologic research Last Line: Because she staid there till the fall Subject(s): Girls; Summer OSCHOPHORIKON; VINTAGE PROCESSIONAL, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The staffs are wreathed; move on, move on Last Line: From athens into phaleron. Subject(s): Autumn; Bacchus; Greece; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rites & Ceremonies; Seasons; Summer; Fall; Greeks OUR ALICE MARBLE, by TRAUGOTT LAWLER Poem Source First Line: The tennis court was there, but overgrown Last Line: Sinking, and brought me safe to the warm sand Subject(s): Summer OUR DRAGON, by CHELSEA RATHBURN Poem Source First Line: At summer reunions, great aunt nettie Last Line: Those apples will sink in your gut like stone.' Subject(s): Family Life; Reunions; Summer OUT-OF-DOOR ARITHMETIC, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Add bright buds, and sun and flowers Subject(s): Nature; Summer OVER THE RANGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bush maiden, wondering eyed Last Line: To the beautiful country over the range. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Home; Life; Summer; Dead, The OXEN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The oxen are such clever beasts Subject(s): Nature; Summer PACK-TRIP SUITE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night is revery awake Last Line: Quiet admits the dark intense. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Camping; Night; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime PAINTER, WIDOWER AT EIGHTY, by TAL P. BIRDSEY Poem Source First Line: All that dry summer, stroke after stroke of impasto Last Line: Colors of burning visions that rise, burning and bold Subject(s): Death; Paintings And Painters; Summer; Widows And Widowers PANSY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Open your eyes, my pansies sweet Subject(s): Nature; Summer PART OF A SUMMER, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thalia, tell in sober lays Last Line: Which causes many speculations Subject(s): Summer PASSING OF SUMMER, by WILLIAM EDWARD HUNT Poem Source First Line: Summer is dead! - it was the wind that spake Subject(s): Summer PAUSE, by ANNE STANTON LAY Poem Text First Line: Today the hours are nuns, soft-shod, grey-clad Last Line: Time pauses, listening for a sharp cold word. Subject(s): Memory; Summer PEACOCK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come, come, mister peacock, you must not be proud Subject(s): Nature; Summer PETER-BIRD, by HENRY THOMPSON STANTON Poem Source First Line: When summer's birds are bringing Subject(s): Nature; Summer PINE CAMP, by GORDON BAINE CLARK Poem Text First Line: There were the three of us and we were young Last Line: We hear winds in whisper with far-distant pines. Subject(s): Autumn; Camping; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Camps; Summer Camps PLATONIC, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew it the first of the summer Last Line: For the moonlit talks -- and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Moon; Roses; Summer POEM FOR ADLAI STEVENSON AND YELLOW JACKETS, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's summer, 1956, in maine, a camp resort Subject(s): Summer; Time; Fish & Fishing; Wasps; Anglers; Yellow Jackets POET AT THE COURT OF PAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Earth and I are tired of spring Subject(s): Summer POETIC EPIGRAMS: 9. THE LIGHTNING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lightning seems a tongue Last Line: That summer has outflung. Subject(s): Lightning; Summer; Lightning Rods POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD Poem Text First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles. Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Yesterday, d'ye know, I voun' / tom dumpy's cwoat an' smock-frock, down Last Line: Cut hoss-heäir down my neck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Summer; Pranks POPPIES, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Lost in a field of heavy petalled poppies Last Line: Beyond the limits of time %only the gray embossed canvas Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Poppies; Summer PORCH TALK ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE, by GEORGE WITTE Poem Source First Line: That day gave way, each ledge of light Last Line: Salvation none of its business Subject(s): Conversation; Moon; Summer POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer; Theology PRAISE IN SUMMER, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Obscurely yet most surely called to praise Last Line: That trees grow green, and moles can course in clay, %and sparrows sweep the ceiling of our day? Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Summer PRESERVES, by ANITA GRAY CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: This summer I shall try preserving Last Line: Into spring. Subject(s): Fruit; Memory; Seasons; Summer; Time PRESERVING-TIME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All over the land there's a savory smell Last Line: "of marmalade, jelly, and jam" Subject(s): Children;fruit;smells;summer; Childhood;odors;aromas;fragrances PRIMED, by PAULANN PETERSEN Poem Source First Line: It was middle june Last Line: Crazy to be divisble by %only myself and one Subject(s): Birthdays; Summer PRIMROSE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow Last Line: Green meadow and clouds the sky. Subject(s): Summer; Yellow (color) RAIN IN CAMP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The camp-fire smoulders and will not burn Last Line: Alas, shall there no man paint or tell. Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Rain; Camps; Summer Camps RAIN IN SUMMER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful is the rain! Last Line: In the rapid and rushing river of time. Subject(s): Nature; Rain; Summer RALEGH'S PRIZES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And summer turns her head with its dark tangle Subject(s): Summer; Seashore; Amusement Parks; Beach; Coast; Shore RATS AT ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the lake the stars scatter their crumbs of light Last Line: The lobe of an ear. Subject(s): Camping; Rats; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Camps; Summer Camps RE-VOYAGE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the days when we two dreamed together? Last Line: My lone canoe and I. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Summer; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness REMINISCENT, by HELEN G. STEPHENSON Poem Text First Line: Today I went to the woodlands Last Line: Couldn't have been as glorious a thing. Subject(s): Indian Summer RESOURCES, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late may remakes the park, even Last Line: Fence railings, one pigeon on promenade Subject(s): Fortitude; Life; Summer RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer; Beach; Coast; Shore RHODE ISLAND, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over Last Line: Until after labor day. He just lays there Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Rhode Island; Seashore; Summer RICE-PLANTING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When summer comes Last Line: Thinking they're in a bath Subject(s): Rice; Summer RIVER, by SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH Poem Source First Line: O tell me, pretty river! Alternate Author Name(s): Parley, Peter Subject(s): Nature; Summer ROBIN REDBREAST, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, goodbye to summer! Last Line: His little heart to cheer. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Robins; Summer ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 13. MEETING AGAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer eve, in the woodbine bower Last Line: Yes, I and the dead, who my side ne'er quitted. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Summer; Voices; Dead, The RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs are in bloom Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SALTBUSH BILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this is the law of the overland that all in the west obey Last Line: How the best day's work that he ever did was the day that he lost the fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Peace; Camps; Summer Camps SALTBUSH BILL'S GAMECOCK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas saltbush bill, with his travelling sheep, was making his way / to town Last Line: Remarked, 'discharged with a clean discharge -- the assault was justified!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Cooking & Cooks; Fate; Sin; Camps; Summer Camps; Destiny SALTBUSH BILL, J. P., by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the land where leichhardt went Last Line: Their saltbush bill, j.P. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Horses; Camps; Summer Camps SANIBEL ISLAND, by MARTHA RONK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lizards crawl the screen again, it's sanibel august Last Line: Upside down, welcomes all gods crfeatures in Subject(s): Sanibel Island, Florida; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Summer; Lizards SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SEA-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago. Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime SEASONS (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spring time when the leaves are young Last Line: And starved the snow he shines upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Seasons; Summer SEASONS: SUMMER, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wherever summer is a country still Last Line: A breathless height a swan white cloud soars by Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Summer SECOND SUMMER, by GEOFFREY+(1) O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: What comes dropping down are Last Line: There was heat around me. %I had no friends I wanted Subject(s): Friendship; Summer SEED, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator Last Line: Oh my daughters. Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood SEEING OFF THE SUMMER, by ZHANG YINYUAN Poem Source First Line: Cicadas cease chirping, summer clouds pass Last Line: Shall dispatch poetic thoughts to the wutong tree in my yard Subject(s): Summer SEEING THE ELEPHANT, by JACKIE BARTLEY Poem Source First Line: Imagine loving an elephant Last Line: Beyond the margins of proof Subject(s): Elephants; Houses; Summer SEPTEMBER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir goldenrod stands by and grieves Last Line: And tranquil goes the queen to die. Subject(s): Nature; September; Summer SEPTEMBER, 1819 (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Departing summer hath assumed Last Line: Can haughty time be just! Variant Title(s): The Poet Growing Old Subject(s): Summer; Time SIENA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Inside this northern summer's fold Last Line: Up to god's side. Subject(s): Heaven; Italy; Jesus Christ; Summer; Paradise; Italians SILENCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear, that crying in the heart Last Line: They call the music of the spheres! Subject(s): Hearts; Music & Musicians; Silence; Summer; Tears; Wind SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 36, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer nights are short Last Line: Trill out their song. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer SITTING IN DVORAK'S GARDEN, by MERCEDES LAWRY Poem Source First Line: Spindly roses Last Line: Of notes, some brief respite, %a reclamation of joy Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Summer SLEEPING UPSIDE DOWN, by KATE LYN HIBBARD Poem Source First Line: Tonight in this heat I'm thinking of the summer Last Line: Until the air moved, the heat broke Subject(s): Sleep; Summer SLUICE, by JEANIE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Your boy is a river %whose current takes you ever Last Line: Of your river, %the day's golden summer, now Subject(s): Summer SMALL SUMMER HARVEST, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: At our place on sugar pine Last Line: When weather turns %crisp in the fall Subject(s): Harvest; Summer SMELL OF SUMMER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: The one who brings me strawberries doesn't know Last Line: Still yoked to the freshness of their skin Subject(s): Strawberries; Summer SNOW-FLAKES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever a snow-flake leaves the sky Last Line: "t is summer!"" -- and it melts away." Subject(s): Nature; Snow; Summer SNOWBELL; A LEGEND OF SUMMER, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In july, when the year has eaten deep Last Line: So, we go, in amaze. Subject(s): Summer SO IT'S TODAY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And in the chokecherry this year Last Line: For a few more days of summer. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Gifts & Giving; Leaves; Longevity; Seasons; Summer; Time; Fall SOMEDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someday: - so many tearful eyes Last Line: Bring round to them, someday. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Pain; Soul; Summer; Tears; Suffering; Misery SONG, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of egypt, veil thine eyes! Last Line: My struggling manhood drown! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Summer; Youth SONG, by TZU-YEH Poem Source First Line: In the hottest time, when all is still and windless Last Line: And we'll float melons on the water, dunk crimson plums Subject(s): Summer SONG FOR SUMMER, by JEAN R. MILLER Poem Text First Line: I dwell in the heart of the shade Last Line: I dwell in the heart of the shade. Subject(s): Summer SONG IN THE NIGHT, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: A little bird sang in the dead of the night Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Nature; Summer SONG OF SUMMER, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dis is gospel weathah sho' Last Line: An' I'm a-layin' neah huh! Subject(s): Summer SONG OF SUMMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A cuckoo sat on a tree and sang Subject(s): Nature; Summer SONGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The brook has a way to spend the day Last Line: Says the bird. Subject(s): Children; Play; Summer; Childhood SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glory on the chamber wall! Last Line: Leads back to golden morn. Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreary wind of night is out Last Line: With stars that shine and see. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 31, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the meridian of the night Last Line: And joy pale virgins never knew. Subject(s): Summer SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 45, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer love, open your eyes to me now! Last Line: And see, the first shreds of dawn over the hill. Subject(s): Summer SONNET, by LILLAH A. ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: Ah, heart, this is our summer passing - this Last Line: "make haste -- live now -- the frost -- the frost is coming." Subject(s): Summer SONNET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon sun on her back Subject(s): Summer SONNET, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afternoon sun on her back Last Line: No need, no one to praise her, %only the lake's voice - over%and over, to keep it before her Subject(s): Summer SONNET: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The summer goes, with all its birds and flowers Last Line: And peep unnoted there behind your screen. Subject(s): Summer SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I meet thee, summer, wont to fill Subject(s): Summer SONNET: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love; Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence SONNET: JULY, 1878, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like waves that rise and fall, the morning sheen Last Line: And light some pensive heart before they die. Subject(s): Summer SONNETS OF A REMEMBERED SUMMER, by MERRILL MOORE Poem Text First Line: You are mistaken in your naive guessing Last Line: Is all this knowledge and all this loneliness. Subject(s): Memory; Summer SONNETS OF SEASONS: 2. SUMMER, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand outside a church this summer day Last Line: No lasting peace is in thy beauty found. Subject(s): Summer SOON THE CITY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon the summer Subject(s): City & Town Llife; Summer SPEARFISH CANYON, by CORIE DAVIS HENTON Poem Text First Line: My camp fire smoke wreathes in and out the trees Last Line: And rest, by nature soothed, carefree, content. Subject(s): Camping; Canyons; Explorers; Camps; Summer Camps; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers SPECIMEN DAYS: A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air - the Last Line: Yet may - be the most real reality and formulator of everything - who %knows? Subject(s): July; Nature; Summer SPIRITS OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three creatures of the summer are to me Last Line: Three summer creatures good to know and love. Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Soul; Summer ST MARTIN'S SUMMER, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As swallows turning backward Last Line: I have not lived in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Indian Summer ST. ETIENNE-DU-GRES, by GEORGIA SHREVE Poem Source First Line: Here, in the complacency Last Line: Batters the cypress, and, finally, %makes the spirit snap Subject(s): Religion; Summer ST. LUKE'S SUMMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is st. Luke, his summer: you shall see Last Line: A little while before the nipping frost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer ST. MARTIN'S SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though flowers have perished at the touch Last Line: Sweet summer of st. Martin! Subject(s): Indian Summer; Martin, Saint (316-397) STAR AND CRESCENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air has the late summer Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight STAR AND CRESCENT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The air has the late summer Last Line: A voice speaks in the silence Subject(s): Evening; Summer STONE, by YVES BONNEFOY Poem Source First Line: Summer passed through the cool rooms, violent Last Line: Bringing the afternoon storms of summer, in the eternal Subject(s): Summer STORY OF MONGREL GREY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the story the stockman told Last Line: The purchase money of mongrel grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Dogs; Forests; Moon; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods SUMMER, by WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the roads are deep with dust Last Line: And all the world return to shade. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by JENNIE COPPOCK CAFFREY Poem Text First Line: Scent of new - mown hay Last Line: Sickle moon with a bright star cuddled close. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by ROBERT LEE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the beams of the mid-day sun Last Line: And to live in that purer air! Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out your loviest star, o night! O night! Last Line: And of our hearts the purest gold of gold. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come Last Line: Like the hedge rose that is broken in the heat of the day. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by DOUGLAS CRASE Poem Source First Line: Everywhere things have been taking place Last Line: With the flutter of something really happening Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: This is the summer of the black rose Last Line: In a string of perfect summer days this last %summer before the end of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What was summer chanting? Last Line: Summer's come! Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER, by BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES Poem Source First Line: After, in the celestial theatre Last Line: Hens of the heavenly field Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by ADOLF VON HATZFELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I broke through to you, beloved, in the grassy plains Last Line: The raging storm, beloved, in you, the night. Subject(s): Longing; Summer SUMMER, by HENJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lotus-leaf! I dreamt that the wide earth Last Line: Pretend that 'tis a gem of priceless worth? Alternate Author Name(s): Yoshimune No Munesada; Abbot Henjo Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: Drumrolled gusts of love Last Line: Crash down %in their nights? Subject(s): Love; Summer SUMMER, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: The lupine are blooming Last Line: With its muzzle it caresss our cheeks Subject(s): Freedom; Seasons; Summer SUMMER, by WALTER DEAN MYERS Poem Source First Line: I like hot days, hot days Last Line: Sweat is what you got days Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL Poem Source First Line: Now's the time to love on pathways Last Line: Any night at september's end Subject(s): Happiness; Labor And Laborers; Summer SUMMER, by C. H. O. SCAIFE Poem Text First Line: Hot summer comes Last Line: Her hands. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER, by RAMONA WILSON Poem Source First Line: Firefly light %the only movement Last Line: The light bursts within me Subject(s): Summer SUMMER (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the song of greeting Last Line: Of some far distant clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer SUMMER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is cold-hearted, / spring is yea and nay Last Line: That days drone elsewehere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life; Summer SUMMER (FROM THE AMERICAN ENGLISH), by ROLF-DIETER BRINKMANN Poem Source First Line: There is that sound like the wind, almost totally Last Line: The blade of grass out and walk over Subject(s): Summer SUMMER - THE NUN, by ANN CHAMBERS Poem Text First Line: Summer - Last Line: She has gone from out our vision. Subject(s): Nuns; Summer SUMMER 1967, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer brings out the girls in their green dresses Last Line: The day that aphrodite touched her mouth to ours Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER AGAIN, by YVES BONNEFOY Poem Source First Line: I step out into the snow, my eyes shut Subject(s): Snow; Summer SUMMER AIRS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This air's a lovely thing: it blows Last Line: Fed on the very breath of thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Air; God; Love; Praise; Summer SUMMER APPROACHES, by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD Poem Text First Line: May marches in waving flags as she enters Last Line: Trailing wild beauty the pathway along. Subject(s): Flowers; Summer SUMMER AT BLUE CREEK, NORTH CAROLINA, by JACK GILBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no water at my grandfather's Subject(s): Summer; Childhood Memories SUMMER AT SEVEN, by JUDY KRONENFELD Poem Source First Line: The breeze gathers the thin skin Last Line: Down, %--down, %--down, %down Subject(s): Children; Sea; Summer SUMMER BEGINS TO HAVE THE LOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Recalls to immortality Subject(s): Summer; Autumn; Immortality SUMMER COMES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Tiny spiders balloon off my finger Last Line: To face the flame Subject(s): Seasons; Summer SUMMER DAWN, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some summer mornings - when you've taken tea Last Line: Has opened. Let the bards of old go rest. Subject(s): Animals; Morning; Night; Poetry & Poets; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER DAWN, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips Last Line: Over the tender, bow'd locks of the corn. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER DAY, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far before me stretched a woodland Last Line: Of their summer melody. Subject(s): Seasons; Summer SUMMER DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is the way the morning dawns Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER DAY IN THE MOUNTAINS, by LI PO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lazily waving a white feather fan Last Line: My bare head ruffled by wind through pines Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Summer SUMMER DAYS, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In summer, when the days were long Last Line: In summer, when the days are long. Subject(s): Love; Summer SUMMER EVENING, by CORA L. KEAGLE Poem Text First Line: Silver moon in saffron sky Last Line: I choose the summer season. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER EVENING, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A night of june, the stars were bright Last Line: Midnight struck through the lattice-bars. Subject(s): Evening; Summer; Sunset; Twilight SUMMER FADES, by AMY LYNN SIPPLE Poem Source First Line: Too tired to sleep Last Line: Across the heart and the %soul of the land Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer SUMMER FOR THEE GRANT I MAY BE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy flower - forevermore! Subject(s): Summer; Anemone SUMMER GARDEN, by LAURIE BYRO Poem Source First Line: I want to see the roses Last Line: And what of their loneliness? %and what of mine Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Parks; Roses; Summer SUMMER GLORY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it true Last Line: Small helper in such glorious ministry! Subject(s): Growth; Summer SUMMER GONE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small wren, mute pecking at the last red plum Last Line: Glad, we'll go home. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Summer SUMMER HAS TWO BEGINNINGS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Except to those who die Variant Title(s): Poem: 1422; Poem: 145 Subject(s): Summer SUMMER HEART, by SARGENT D. STERLING Poem Text First Line: Be brave when moons change Last Line: Your heart will have no pain. Subject(s): Hearts; Moon; Summer SUMMER HEAT, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give over to the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Heat; Summer SUMMER HEATS LIKE THE NEEDLE IN ITS CHOSEN SKIN, by BECKIAN FRITZ GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: And hummingbirds flung into the air Last Line: As if mystery %was asking for it Subject(s): Summer SUMMER I SPENT SCREWING IN THE BACK SEATS OF STATION WAGONS, by BARRY NATHAN GOLDENSOHN Poem Source First Line: Was the last summer that lasted all summer Last Line: We wondered, how could he tell? Subject(s): Growth; Memory; Summer SUMMER I TURNED SIXTEEN, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY Poem Source First Line: Take jewelweed, you told me, for the sting Last Line: Can turn on us as a surprise when we need it most Subject(s): Family Life; Memory; Summer SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud of turquoise pool rose up Last Line: Through chain link to the improbable world Subject(s): Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming SUMMER IDYLL, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes in summer months, the gestate earth Last Line: Like swans, like perfect swans. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER IMAGES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love at early morn, from new-mown swath Subject(s): Summer SUMMER IN GDANSK, FR. FOUR HAIKUS FROM POLAND, by TAD KIELCZEWSKI Poem Source Last Line: And then it gets gdark Subject(s): Poland; Summer SUMMER IN THE CITY, by BRUCE FELD Poem Source First Line: Coarse he was %coarse as spit on the wall Last Line: And, of course, she said Subject(s): Summer SUMMER IN WALES, by JOYCE GRENFELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lean on the lichen-dappled stone-made wall Last Line: For the shepherd speaks with the voice of a bird. Subject(s): Summer; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen SUMMER IS BACK, by KOSTES PALAMAS Poem Source First Line: Summer is back; and yet my lot is that Subject(s): Summer SUMMER IS WANING, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: Summer is waning from the gold and from the copper Last Line: Go out and prepare the roast potatoes' Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Summer SUMMER IS WANING, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is waning, the roses are dead Last Line: Sweet memories, never to fail! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Future; Life Change Events; Summer; Time; Youth SUMMER JOB, by DAVID MASON Poem Source First Line: The day's work started in a dark Last Line: I watch their banked wings catching fire Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Summer SUMMER JOYS, by MATTHIAS BARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful streamlet Subject(s): Summer; Nature SUMMER KNOWLEDGE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer knowledge is not the winter's truth, the truth of fall Subject(s): Knowledge; Summer SUMMER KNOWLEDGE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Summer knowledge is not the winter's truth, the truth of fall Last Line: In the consummation and the annihilation of the blaze of fall Subject(s): Knowledge; Summer SUMMER LANDSCAPE, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hot sun at its zenith weeps ingots like the clappers of bells Last Line: Water runs down leaves and eyes, dissolving the salt of sweat, drowning the eyes Subject(s): Summer SUMMER LIGHT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All through the long day the hawk calls shrill Last Line: Deep in summer light. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer; Sun SUMMER LONGINGS, by DENIS FLORENCE MCCARTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! My heart is weary waiting Last Line: Waiting for the may! Alternate Author Name(s): Maccarthy, Denis Florence Variant Title(s): Waiting For The May Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER LULLABY, by EUDORA S. BUMSTEAD Poem Source First Line: The sun has gone from the shining skies Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER MOODS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love at eventide to walk alone Last Line: And see the light fade into gloom around. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Summer; Sunset; Twilight SUMMER NIGHT, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: Like a bell note shivered into fragments of fine sound Last Line: Insistently, a futile blow. Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT, by CLARA CATHERINE PRINCE Poem Text First Line: Here where the green has surrounded the lapping waters Last Line: Spirit, direct me! Subject(s): Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHT, by DOROTHY E. STROH Poem Text First Line: Cricket, cricket / what can you know of Last Line: That burns and grieves? Subject(s): Crickets; Summer SUMMER NIGHT, by TS'AN LIAO TZU Poem Source First Line: A pine fragrance Last Line: Wordless %crossing the eastern wall Subject(s): Summer; Zen Buddhism SUMMER NIGHT, RIVERSIDE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild soft summer darkness Last Line: This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Riverside Drive, New York City; Summer SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS OF CERTAIN MELODIES: 1. ANDANTE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the full-blown linden and the plane Last Line: But nothing sleeps, though rest seems everywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Night; Summer; Bedtime SUMMER NIGHTS AND DAYS, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So far the nights feel lonelier than the days. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER OF '94, by ROBERT VANDERMOLEN Poem Source First Line: My legs were sore from swimming Last Line: A couple of times a week Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Summer; Sun; Swimming SUMMER OF ANNA KARENINA, by DANIEL WOLFF Poem Source First Line: Now that the summer is almost over Last Line: And whether - and why - the summer is over Subject(s): Relationships; Summer SUMMER OF THE COMET, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring 1997, and the tallest elm at Last Line: The sky seems imperfect and empty Subject(s): Comets; Summer SUMMER PLACE: CAMBRIA, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm out front, first light spotted Last Line: In the water, turning it silver like a boiling chandelier Subject(s): Cambria, Wales; Paintings And Painters; Summer; Sun SUMMER SAPPHICS, by MARILYN TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: Maybe things are better than we imagine Last Line: We, the aggregation, have just begun to %fathom the gestures Subject(s): Summer SUMMER SCHOOL, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: To whom should summer go to school? Last Line: Guess summer just stays dumb again Subject(s): Schools; Seasons; Summer SUMMER SCHOOL, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I play on a stoop Last Line: Them - I'm a good girl Subject(s): Schools; Summer SUMMER SERENADE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the thunder stalks the sky Last Line: If we must melt, let's melt together! Subject(s): Summer SUMMER SHOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A drop fell on the apple tree / another on the roof Last Line: And signed the fete away. Subject(s): Rain; Summer SUMMER SKY, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God, that a sky should be as blue as this Last Line: To see the stars look out among these lines. Subject(s): Sky; Summer SUMMER SMALL TALK, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Spiders Last Line: Shafts, their miners' %faces dusted gold Subject(s): Summer; Talk SUMMER SOLSTICE CHANT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, rich and open, Subject(s): Summer SUMMER SOLSTICE, NEW YORK CITY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the end of the longest day of the year he could not stand it Subject(s): Summer Solstice; Crime & Criminals SUMMER SONATA, by RIVERS LODGE Poem Text First Line: Oh, could we walk again, I wonder Last Line: When we came limping in at dawn? Subject(s): Summer SUMMER SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are white moon daisies in the midst of the meadow Last Line: To be young before the heart grows old! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Summer SUMMER SONG: 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked into my heart to write Last Line: True love goes on for ever. Subject(s): Love; Summer SUMMER STARS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bend low again, night of summer stars Subject(s): Stars; Summer SUMMER STORM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Untremulous in the river clear Last Line: Silent and few, are drifting over me. Subject(s): Nature; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM, by JANE RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Swiftly rush the storm clouds Last Line: Silence, sunlight glinting on wet roof-tops. Subject(s): Clouds; Rain; Storms; Summer SUMMER STORM IN LOS ANGELES, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: When a july storm sweeps down the blue black Last Line: "diverting." Subject(s): Los Angeles; Storms; Summer SUMMER SYMPHONY, by LAUREL JANE SPITLER Poem Text First Line: Clouds gather, lightning flashes Last Line: Creating summer symphonies. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I love the cheerful summer time Subject(s): Nature; Summer SUMMER TRANSPARENCES, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Although her touch held the fragments Last Line: He stops for fallen cones: %the hard edges of summer Subject(s): Summer SUMMER VOICES, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shining trembling leaves that drape the bowers of june Last Line: This mounts the wings of summer morn, and singing, flies to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Nature; Sound; Summer SUMMER WE HAVE ALL SEEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: The embryo endowed Variant Title(s): Poem: 1386; Poem: 141 Subject(s): Summer SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk Last Line: Into small waves and sparkle as he comes. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM ROEHRICK Poem Source First Line: All the sunlit fields are gay Subject(s): Summer SUMMER WINDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up the dale and down the bourne Last Line: Till we're at our play again. Variant Title(s): Song Of The Summer Winds Subject(s): Summer; Wind SUMMER WOODS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O I am tired of painted roofs and soft and silken floors Last Line: Like krishna and like radhika, encompassed with delight. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Seasons; Summer; Joy; Delight SUMMER WORK ON THE SOUTHERN PIPELINE, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: What called them to brookhaven, mississippi, 1966 Last Line: Unable to look away from the slit of sky Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Mississippi; Summer SUMMER'S ADIEU, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: The lanes are green; the skies, bedight Last Line: Bend and nod and bid farewell. Subject(s): Farewell; Summer; Parting SUMMER'S DAY, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dark-blue clouds of night, in dusky lines Last Line: And silence dwells within Subject(s): Summer SUMMER'S DAY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, love, so be it as you say Last Line: If it be tears, we've had our laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Summer SUMMER'S FAREWELL, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sound is that? 'tis the summer's farewell Last Line: May there be ere the summer sun next shall beam. Subject(s): Summer SUMMER'S OVERTHROW, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is fallen, is conquered, her greatness Last Line: Then, sinking, shook on the world her golden ruins, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Summer SUMMER'S PASSING, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A single branch of flaming red Last Line: The singing and the sighing! Subject(s): Happiness; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Summer; Joy; Delight SUMMER'S REVEL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! But my mind is weary! Last Line: "come, friend -- you've drunk your last now.'" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Life; Summer; Youth; Wine SUMMER-TIME AND WINTER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the golden noon-shine Last Line: "cheep! Cheep! Cheep!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Katydids; Moon; Summer; Winter SUMMER. THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd's boy (he seeks no better name) Last Line: By night he scorches, as he burns by day. Subject(s): Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Summer SUMMERING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would arise and in a dream go on Last Line: I could not slumber if the wains were out! Subject(s): Summer SUMMERLESS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: The lake is so cold the man from bavaria Last Line: As the summer passes Subject(s): Love; Summer SUMMERTIME, by RUTH DURHAM CUNNINGHAM Poem Text First Line: Here on the mountain top Last Line: On you and time. Subject(s): Love; Summer SUMMERTIME, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the u-bet bucko john reading a travel brochure Last Line: "verything is holy Subject(s): Summer SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVING', by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody planted roses, he recalls Subject(s): Summer SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVING', by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody planted roses, he recalls Last Line: Set the ghetto burgeoning %with fantasies %of ethiopia spreading her gorgeous wings Subject(s): Summer SUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAY, by PAUL BLACKBURN Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sabbath; Summer; Sunday SUNNY DAYS, by WILLIAM JACOB SANDS Poem Text First Line: The sun of summer brings his comfort rare Last Line: Betty and ecstasy without alloy. Subject(s): Summer SUSAN SIMPSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sudden swallows swiftly skimming Subject(s): Alliterative Verse;singing & Singers;summer TALE OF SUMMER, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: A bee, one of those said to be italian, came in through the Last Line: Happiness - with me, how could he make his honey Subject(s): Summer TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows" Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake! Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue TENNIS WITHOUT A NET, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Courts finally empty, everyone gone Last Line: Disappeared in the unlit july night Subject(s): Play; Summer; Tennis THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER, by MARY KINZIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unwelcome and self-conscious sheen of morning Last Line: That makes us shudder and fall back into the self Subject(s): Summer; Self THE BALLADE OF THE SUMMER-BOARDER, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let all men living on earth take heed Last Line: This is the end of our summering. Subject(s): Summer THE BEST SHE COULD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nine leaves a minute Last Line: "granted her prime." Subject(s): Summer THE BLUE GENTIANS, by EDWARD RYAN WOODLE Poem Text First Line: The fairest blossoms ever bloom the last Last Line: Bend, droop, and wither in the frosty breeze. Subject(s): Flowers; Gentians; Summer; Fringed Gentians THE BREEZES OF JUNE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Sweet and soft Last Line: Of youthful summer! Subject(s): Summer THE CAMPER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night 'neath the northern skies, lone, black, and grim Last Line: Watch o'er his hemlock bed—his sinless sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Camping; Nature; Night; Solitude; Camps; Summer Camps; Bedtime; Loneliness THE CAMPFIRE, by MARGARET ADELAIDE WILSON Poem Text First Line: Until that eve I never knew you Last Line: Just you and I: outside the night! Subject(s): Camping; Fire; Camps; Summer Camps THE CLOSE OF SUMMER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell ye banks, where late the primrose growing Last Line: Tho' stript of loveliness, is rich in use. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Summer THE CLOTE (WATER-LILY), by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O zummer clote! When the brook's a-gliden Last Line: Thy flow'r afloat, goolden zummer clote! Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies; Summer THE COCK, by HERMAN FETZER Poem Text First Line: Give me a hot summer Last Line: Says the cock. Alternate Author Name(s): Falstaff, Jake Subject(s): Chickens; Cock-fighting; Spring; Summer THE CYCLONE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So lone I stood, the very trees Last Line: The birds sang in the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Cyclones; Nature; Summer; Trees THE DAMSEL OF MOBILE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met thee in the summer time Last Line: Darling damsel of mobile! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Summer THE DARK AND FALLING SUMMER, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rain was full of the freshness Subject(s): Rain; Summer THE DEPARTURE OF SUMMER (1), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is gone on swallow's wings Last Line: And find thy summer vision true! Subject(s): Summer THE DEPARTURE OF SUMMER (2), by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the slipper strikes the ground Last Line: A warm, and heartfelt welcome take! Subject(s): Summer THE ELFIN VALLEY, by MARY WEBB Poem Text First Line: By this low rock pool, dark and sweet Last Line: Has laid a spell of gold. Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Summer; Pools; Ponds THE END OF SUMMER, by HENRY MEADE BLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweep on, o tide, across the yellow sands Subject(s): Summer THE END OF SUMMER, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet smell of phlox drifting across the lawn Subject(s): Summer THE FAIRY TRAIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Over stick, over stone, over fence, over / rail Last Line: In crookedy turns goes the fairy trail. Subject(s): Roads; Summer; Paths; Trails THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer's life displays in every part Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST ROSE OF SUMMER, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh dear! Is summer over? Last Line: "why, it's just begun!" Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Roses; Summer; Childhood THE FIRST SURVEYOR, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The opening of the railway line! - the governor and all! Last Line: I'm sorry, but I can't come down -- I'm dining out tonight!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Cattle; Horses; Hunting; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters THE FRESHET, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stir is on the worc'ter hills Last Line: Her young disciples leaves behind. Subject(s): Nature; Summer THE GOSSIPS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulturine necks stretch out; the mean eyes bunch Subject(s): Schools; Summer; Students THE GRAVE OF A SUICIDE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the gale, in mournful notes and stern Last Line: The quivering lip, proclaim the rest too well! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Summer THE GREAT CALAMITY, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macfierce 'un came to whiskeyhurst Last Line: To see two strong men weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Faith; Life; Summer; Belief; Creed THE GROUND-ROBIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a low birch-tree just outside my window Last Line: Sing on, ground-robin, sing! Subject(s): Faith; Grief; June; Love; New Hampshire; Robins; Summer; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE HABITANT'S SUMMER, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: O who can blame de winter Last Line: An' le bon dieu sen' de sunshine nearly twelve mont' ev'ry year. Subject(s): Summer THE HAPPY BIRDS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All about the gable tall, swift the swallows flit, Last Line: Leave to winter's bitterness our glad and gay good-bye. Subject(s): Summer; Swallows THE HUMMING BIRDS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green wing and ruby throat Last Line: Sleeps in this bloom; and, when it falls, they go. Subject(s): Bees; Heaven; Hummingbirds; Insects; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Beekeeping; Paradise; Bugs THE HUMMING-BIRD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a monster bee Last Line: Into a murmurous sound of wings too swift for sight! Subject(s): Flowers; Hummingbirds; Marigolds; Summer; Wings THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE INDIAN SUMMER, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is there sadd'ning in the autumn leaves Last Line: "what is there sadd'ning in the autumn leaves?" Subject(s): Indian Summer THE LAST CRICKET, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, piper, in the lean gray grass Last Line: The year without a rose! Subject(s): Pipers; Summer THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man in a lawn chair Last Line: Growing on the counter next to the knife. Subject(s): August; Fruit; Grass; Pear Trees; Summer; Trees; Pears THE LAST EVE OF SUMMER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer's last sun nigh unto setting shines Last Line: And the eternal years! Subject(s): Summer THE LEADER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Down the hollow, up the hill Last Line: Where the flag goes—there go I! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; Summer; American Flag; Liberty THE LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down! Last Line: Can the world end in a night? Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LEGEND OF THE BRONX, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With sword and bible, brood and dame Last Line: "come to our valley of homes!" Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Peace; Summer THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We get into camp after Last Line: To murder you while you sleep Subject(s): Andromeda (constellation); Camping; Love; Camps; Summer Camps THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had found out a sweet green spot Last Line: Who will soon as dimly die. Subject(s): Lilies Of The Valley; Nature; Summer THE LINNET, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tuck, tuck, feer - from the green and growing leaves Last Line: With her little household nestled 'mong the boughs! Subject(s): Linnets; Summer THE LONG TRAIL: THE SUMMER SEA, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the long trail sleeps by the summer sea Last Line: Calls to new harbors world-argosies. Subject(s): Summer THE LONGEST DAY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder hills soft twilight dwells Last Line: Ye summer souls, rejoice! Subject(s): Nature; Seasons; Summer THE LOON ON FORRESTER'S POND, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer wilderness, a blue light Last Line: The real and only sanity to me Subject(s): Birds; Loons; Mountain Life - Vermont; Summer THE LOST SUMMER; SONG, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is summer, now the rose is dead? Last Line: Dear, lost summertime, return to me! Subject(s): Summer THE MAY PARTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O million-singing comes the may Last Line: Had given birth to man! Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Music & Musicians; Parks; Parties; Summer THE MERRY SUMMER MONTHS, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come! The merry summer months Last Line: I'll bear indeed life's heaviest curse,--a heart that hath waxed old! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Summer THE MIMOSA, by DAVID BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Days and nights the dull metallic / hammer of welders' work Last Line: The night is starting to burn and to bloom Variant Title(s): The Mimosa: Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Water THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons THE MOUNTING SUMMER, BRILLIANT AND OMINOUS, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A yellow-headed, golden-hammered; sunflower-lanterned Subject(s): Summer THE MOWING, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the voice of high midsummer's heat Last Line: May cheer the herds with pasture memories. Subject(s): Grass; Mowing And Mowers; Nature; Summer THE NESTING SWALLOWS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm. Last Line: To make me glad and grateful. That is all. Subject(s): Nature; Summer; Swallows THE OLD CAMP COFFEE-POT (WRITTEN FOR EBEN W. MARTIN), by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old camp-mate, black and rough to see Last Line: From your black throat, old coffee-pot. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Camping; Cowboys; Camps; Summer Camps THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a cloud before the sun Last Line: If sadness fits the past. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps THE ORANGE BOUGH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Bring me one sweet orange bough Last Line: When I am laid in lonely rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Summer THE ORDINARY WEATHER OF SUMMER, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the ordinary weather of summer Subject(s): Summer THE PAINTED TURTLE, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: I lie here idle on a log Last Line: Forgets to envy anyone. Subject(s): Summer THE PARTING OF SUMMER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou'rt bearing hence thy roses Last Line: May that next meeting be! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Summer THE PASSING OF SUMMER (AN ODE), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, like a pageant of the golden year Last Line: How earth's great golden dreams go past into the dark! Subject(s): Summer THE PLAYGROUND AT PAOWNYC, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There's a playground hid in the forest's depths Last Line: With tender care and love. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Leisure; Parks; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE MYSTIC SUMMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not the dropping of the flower Last Line: The mystic summer wanes away. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Summer THE POOR LITTLE RICH FLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: It's better to be a buttercup out in the / grass Last Line: Flower, in a lady's bower. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Flowers; Summer; Wealth; Childhood; Riches; Fortunes THE PRAIRIE ON FIRE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long grass burned brown Last Line: Are weeping for joy. Subject(s): Fire; Summer THE PRELUDE: BOOK 4. SUMMER VACATION, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Last Line: Then sought with quiet heart my distant home. Subject(s): Summer; Vacation THE QUEST OF SUMMER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had been waiting long Last Line: Is the summer here again. Subject(s): Birds; Life; May (month); Nature; Spring; Summer THE RAINY SUMMER, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's much afoot in heaven and earth this year Last Line: Wild honey to cold cells. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Rain; Summer THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE ROSE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of summer, lovely rose Last Line: Tis lasting beauty to be wise! Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Summer; Youth THE SEASON, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer's gone and over! Last Line: Sure will pinch us worse! Subject(s): Summer THE SEASONS: SUMMER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From brightening fields of ether fair Last Line: And ever rising with the rising mind. Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares THE SIMPLE LIFE - IN TENTS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Ten thousand khaki tents or more Last Line: For living proves a coarse burlesque. Subject(s): Camping; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps THE SONG OF A SUMMER STREAM, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few months ago Last Line: When the lonely songs are gathered in the mighty choir of praise. Subject(s): Summer THE SONG OF SUMMER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked an apple from off a tree Last Line: On a lower branch is the fruit for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Summer THE SONGS OF SUMMER, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The songs of summer are over and past Last Line: Knocks and knocks at the window-pane. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Summer THE STORY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They met each other in the glade Last Line: Alas! Alas! For breaking hearts when lovers rove away. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Summer; Separation; Isolation THE STREAM SET FREE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flow on, rejoice, make music Last Line: Be set in thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Summer THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First, april, she with mellow showers Last Line: More wealth brings in, then all those three. Variant Title(s): The Four Sweet Months Subject(s): April; July; June; Spring; Summer THE SUMMER CAMP, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here slacken rein; here let the dusty mules Last Line: And gird our loins for action. Let us go! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Camping; Forests; Life; Past; Travel; Camps; Summer Camps; Woods; Journeys; Trips THE SUMMER CHILDREN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like 'em in the winter when their cheeks are Last Line: Of healthy, lusty youngsters that the summer sun has tanned. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Children; Summer; Childhood THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wooed her in the summer months Last Line: And left me to my fate Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER GIRL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer girl doth now unfurl Last Line: "the cow with the crumpled horn" Subject(s): Beauty; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Seduction; Summer; Work; Workers THE SUMMER GIRL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses Last Line: For an angel masquerading oft is she, the summer girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer; Women THE SUMMER I WAS SIXTEEN, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The turquoise pool rose up to meet us, Subject(s): Teenagers; Children; Growth; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Childhood; Swimmers THE SUMMER IMAGE, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ash and strewments, the first moth-wings, pale Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER IS DYING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer is dying, is dying Last Line: To see the summer depart. Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER IS ENDED (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe no more lilies in my hair Last Line: Only a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Summer; Dead, The THE SUMMER IS ENDED (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think that this meaningless thing was ever a rose Last Line: Bent we cannot re-bend. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bugling of the summer wind Last Line: And rideth on a cloud! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Summer; Wind THE SUMMER WOMAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wild bee humming in the gorse Last Line: Wild bees, wild bees, come back again! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Eyes; Summer; Tears; Voices; Women THE SUMMER'S CALL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come away! The sunny hours Last Line: Come away -- away! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER'S QUEEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chant the praises of the regal june Last Line: And after them the autumn and the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Summer THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever he needs, he has or doesn't Subject(s): Camping; Summer; Farewell; Camps; Summer Camps; Parting THE SUMMER-TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the summer-time to-day Last Line: That they never heerd sich singin' anywhere! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Summer THE SUMMER-TIME THAT WAS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow is not come yet Last Line: And the summer-time that was. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Summer; Transience; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUMMERTIME OF LOVE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Sweep gently o'er the chords dear Last Line: In the summertime of love. Subject(s): Love; Summer THE SUMMONS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My ear is full of summer sounds Last Line: And has no answer but god-speed! Subject(s): Freedom; Summer; Liberty THE SUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Long before the postman comes Last Line: We thank thee for the sun's good light. Subject(s): Children; God; Gratitude; Prayer; Religion; Summer; Childhood; Theology THE SUNBOWS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spray of song that springs in april, light of Last Line: Light that leaps and runs and revels through the springing flames of spray. Subject(s): Dawn; Spring; Summer; Sunrise THE SWAGMAN'S REST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We buried old bob where the bloodwoods wave Last Line: Is known as 'the swagman's rest'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Graves; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TENT ASTRONOMER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a barrier against mosquitoes Last Line: Let lens and mirror lift me up toward light. Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Camping; Solitude; Tents; Camps; Summer Camps; Loneliness THE THROSTLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is coming, summer is coming Last Line: And all the winters are hidden. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Summer THE TIME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is the time to write. I tell myself this Last Line: Maybe it is a title and this life is the poem. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Summer; Time; Writing & Writers THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light falls the rain-drop on the Last Line: Far lightlier falls the touch of loving hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hands; Light; Love; Summer THE TWO SUMMERS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a golden season in our year Last Line: The elect of god, whom life and death have blessed! Subject(s): Summer THE UNCONSUMING FIRE, by BETTY PAGE DABNEY Poem Text First Line: The young leaves spring Last Line: Incorporeal light. Subject(s): Leaves; Spring; Summer THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: How many men of state and high degree Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees Last Line: The lips of used-to-be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares THE VEILS OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three veils of silence, summer draws apace Last Line: And ache of inarticulate desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Sea; Silence; Summer; Ocean THE WHITE ROOM, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The obvious is difficult Subject(s): Summer; Trees; Mind, The THE WONDER-MAKER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: Come, if thou'rt cold to summer's charms Last Line: With all that's rich and beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Summer THE WORD OF SUMMER, by ELSA BARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dropping roses from her hand Last Line: "then begin again." Subject(s): Summer THE YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness THERE CAME A DAY AT SUMMER'S FULL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Justified — through calvaries of love Subject(s): Summer; Time; Heaven THERE IS A ZONE WHOSE EVEN YEARS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And consciousness - is noon Variant Title(s): Poem: 1056; Poem: 102 Subject(s): Summer THESE SANDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: To summer days squandered in the dunes Last Line: These sands; these last sands; their cold splendor Subject(s): Love; Seashore; Summer THIRTEENTH SUMMER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is twelve? Not you, in absolute skirt Subject(s): Aging; Children; Summer; Childhood THIRTEENTH SUMMER, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who is twelve? Not you, in absolute skirt Last Line: Heat, from your round body as you cross into sleep Subject(s): Aging; Children; Summer THIS GOLDEN SUMMER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Could cut bare feet Subject(s): Summer THIS SUMMER AND LAST, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy summer you / who do not see Last Line: Know what it knew! Subject(s): Summer THISTLEDOWN: 10. SUMMER, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: The low, large moon lies in the liquid sky Last Line: Summer is dead ... The moon dropped from the west. Subject(s): Summer THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: Going zap1 and zap! Zap! Zap! All the way home Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming & Swimmers; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOREAU WADING IN A RIVER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On summer days at the swampy edge of the river Last Line: The bundle of dry clothes there on the shore Subject(s): Rivers; Summer; Swimming; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) THOSE FINAL CREATURES, - WHO THEY ARE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: But just the summer knows Subject(s): Summer THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THREE BABY VERSES: 1, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, far away Last Line: And the ripples circle and cease. Subject(s): Summer THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, by REBECCA S. PALFREY Poem Text First Line: What do the robins whisper about Last Line: At three o'clock in the morning. Subject(s): Nature; Robins; Summer THREE SONGS AT THE END OF SUMMER, by JANE KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A second crop of hay lies cut Last Line: It was the only life I had Subject(s): Summer THREE SONGS AT THE END OF SUMMER, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A second crop of hay lies cut Last Line: It was the only life I had Subject(s): Summer THREE WOOD SONGS: 1. TO A DOGWOOD IN SUMMER, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me that essential you Last Line: Your moonlight and your snow. Subject(s): Dogwood; Snow; Summer; Trees THROUGH DIM EYES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder? Last Line: Like a grand amen to a minor song. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Stars; Summer; Sun; Dead, The TIDAL MARSHES, AUGUST, by JAMES WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Gray rain. Old gravity Last Line: What a family does not speak of Subject(s): Family Life; Secrets; Summer TIR NA N-OG, by ROBIN ERNEST WILLIAM FLOWER Poem Text First Line: I heard the summer calling across great breadths of sea Last Line: And the landwind mocks my longing and the sea-wind saddens all. Subject(s): Fairies; Summer; Youth; Elves TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On either bank Subject(s): Camping; Rivers; Camps; Summer Camps TO FRIENDS OF OTHER SUMMERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We heeded the blood's warm nudge, the arterial music Subject(s): Memory; Summer; Friendship TO MIDSUMMER DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown of the year, how bright thou shinest! Last Line: Crown of the year! When thou art gone. Subject(s): Summer TO MY CHILDREN: 10. IN SUMMER DAYS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the sunshine on my eyes Last Line: And you look away! Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Summer TO PAM AND A MARSHMALLOW, by IRENE M. MORSE Poem Text First Line: This, my own, is the season for growing Last Line: You cannot afford to miss even one. Subject(s): Growth; Summer; Sun TO SUMMER, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who passest through our valleys in Last Line: Nor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat. Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Summer TO THE CORNFLOWER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How smiling, how wondering, the cornflower's eyes Last Line: For you live right down here with me, and not so high and far. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Sisters; Summer; Joy; Delight TO THE SUMMER SUN (CORONADO), by MARGUERITE WILKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great sun, why are you pitiless? Last Line: That I may miss you for a day! Subject(s): Heat; Summer; Sun TOKENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green mwold on zummer bars do show Last Line: To eyezight's woone, but two to thought. Subject(s): Grass; Seasons; Storms; Summer; Winter TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. SUMMER HEAT, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun burning down on back and loins, penetrating the skin Last Line: In savage play and amorous despite. Subject(s): Love; Passion; Summer TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A SUMMER DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing once again the ethereal blue of the sky Last Line: Dream-walking, till at length the real day may dawn. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer TRACE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My friendships with one or two, yes, three Last Line: Long since consumed Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Summer TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TRANSITION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said, in death, upon the face Last Line: With dreams of may. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Variant Title(s): Indian Summer (1) Subject(s): Hope; Indian Summer; Seasons; Optimism TREES LIKE TASSELS -- HIT -- AND SWUNG, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of nature's - summer day Variant Title(s): Poem: 606; Poem: 52 Subject(s): Nature; Summer TRUANT, by S. A. HUDSON Poem Source First Line: Tommy thought there was nobody looking Subject(s): Nature; Summer TWO HEARTS IN A FOREST: LOST ROADS, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As though following a series of clues, we drove Last Line: Already the sad rapture entering Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Roads; Summer TWO OF A TRADE, by SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dragon-fly and I together Last Line: And I at the oars, our course to hold. Subject(s): Nature; Summer TWO RONDEAUX TO NEW YORK: 2. SUMMER, by MAY FOLWELL HOISINGTON Poem Text First Line: New york, I love you - dog-days, too Last Line: New york, I love you! Subject(s): New York City; Summer; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO SKIES, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A sky above, a sky below Last Line: Than ever can be the high proud star. Subject(s): Sky; Stars; Summer UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness UNDERCURRENTS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Mrs. Hawkins! What a perfect rose! Last Line: (green waters—and blue sky and golden light!) Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Summer UNREST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the youth of the year, when the birds were building Last Line: O where is the treasure which men call rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Soul; Summer; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters VACATION'S END, by WENDY BREUER Poem Source First Line: Already the shasta daisies look Last Line: And your children %who've scattered Subject(s): Old Age; Summer; Vacation VARIATIONS ON A SUMMER DAY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say of the gulls that they are flying Subject(s): Summer VARIATIONS ON A SUMMER DAY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say of the gulls that they are flying Last Line: The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence %it was not yet the hour to be dauntlessly le Subject(s): Summer VERMONT MEMORY TRACKS - SUMMER, by LEONARD TWYNHAM Poem Text First Line: I pause and ponder as I pass the fields Last Line: Will soon be veiled beneath the weeping grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Twinem, Leo Leonard Subject(s): Summer; Vermont VERSES FOR PICTURES: SUMMER, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer looked for long am I Last Line: Though I weary thee with bliss. Variant Title(s): The Seasons: Summer Subject(s): Summer VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VIOLIN SONGS: SUMMER SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Murmuring, 'twixt a murmur and moan Last Line: "but it tells me I love you eternally." Subject(s): Love; Sea; Secrets; Summer; Ocean VOGUE, by CORA FREAR HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: Summer dons a flowered hat, with dress in rosy tints Last Line: While spring, hair blowing in the wind, wears flower- sprigged chintz. Subject(s): Autumn; Clothing & Dress; Seasons; Summer; Fall WALKING THROUGH THE HORIZON, by MARGARET HOLLEY Poem Source First Line: It became my definition of summer, that july Last Line: Birdsong, thunder, green, cicadas, and heat Subject(s): Rebirth; Summer WANDERERS, by JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE Poem Text First Line: As I rose in the early dawn Last Line: Pull up the stakes and go! Subject(s): Camping; Wandering & Wanderers; Camps; Summer Camps; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes WE THANK THEE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: For flowers that bloom about our feet Subject(s): Nature; Summer WE WEAR OUR SOBER DRESSES WHEN WE DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: Adjourns her sigh Variant Title(s): Poem: 1572; Poem: 161 Subject(s): Summer WHAT CHRI'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter-time, er summertime Last Line: "n' take the town o' chinkypin!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Churches; Summer; Winter; Nativity, The; Cathedrals WHAT COULD BE LOVELIER THAN TO HEAR, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And hear the thunder cross the sky %with elephant tread Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Rain; Summer WHEN ON A SUMMER'S MORN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: When on a summer's morn I wake Last Line: And one that's all my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Summer WHEN ROSELEAVES FALL, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roseleaves fall in evenings cold Last Line: When roseleaves fall. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Stoicism; Summer WHEN SUMMER COMES, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer comes, then you are near to me Last Line: Or, finding you but shadow, let me die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Summer WILD-ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the dim hot summer blue Last Line: And brown bees drone their honey-call. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bees; Flowers; Insects; Roses; Summer; Beekeeping; Bugs WIND OF SUMMER, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wind, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees Last Line: Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summerwind. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Summer; Wind WINDS WERE WHISPERING, THE WATERS GLISTENING, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leafless in summer-time Subject(s): Summer WINTER AND SUMMER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winter goes and the summer comes Last Line: And the snow drifts over our sightless eyes. Subject(s): Summer; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER AND SUMMER, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within my head, aches the perpetual winter Last Line: The garden, falsified by snow, %waiting to melt, and become real again Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Despair; Summer; Winter WINTER IN SUMMER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All in a bleak december Last Line: I wot 'twas summer-time. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Summer; Winter WISHES, by CARLOS PELLICER Poem Source First Line: Tropics, why did you give me Last Line: Tropics, why did you give me %these hands brimming with color! Subject(s): Summer; Sun; Wishes WITHOUT AVAIL, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Without a veil I saw her stand Last Line: Without avail. Subject(s): Courtship; Flirtation; Summer WOHELO, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Down in maine at camp wohelo Last Line: In our hearts their fame will live. Subject(s): Camping; Children; Games; Girls; Maine (state); Sports; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements WORD FOR SUMMER, by GEORGE SEFERIS Poem Source First Line: We've returned to autumn again; summer Last Line: Your hands touching the free wave Subject(s): Summer WORKS OF GOD, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God made the sky that looks so blue Subject(s): Nature; Summer WOULD YOU LIKE SUMMER? TASTE OF OURS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography Last Line: But, which is it, sir? Variant Title(s): Poem: 272; Poem: 69 Subject(s): Summer WRITING THE EVENTS OF A SUMMER DAY, by WEI YE Poem Source First Line: Normally %I hate going out Last Line: Not easy to better Subject(s): Summer; Zen Buddhism YANKEE DOODLE UP TO DATE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Old spain took cuba by the hair Last Line: "those islands will come handy." Subject(s): Boys; Camping; Children; Camps; Summer Camps; Childhood [LITTLE] SUNBEAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little sunbeam in the sky Subject(s): Nature; Summer |
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