Summer Poems

Our anthology of poems for the summer season begins with a selection of classics:

• Anonymous medieval lyric (usually sung as a round),
  “Sumer Is Icumen In” (c. 1250)
  
  
• Thomas Nashe,
  “Fair Summer Droops,” from Summer’s Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe (1600)
  
  
• William Blake,
  “The Schoolboy,” from Songs of Experience (1794)
  
  
• John Greenleaf Whittier,
  “The Barefoot Boy” (1855)
  
  
• John Clare,
  “Summer” (1865)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “A something in a summer’s day” (#63)
  
  
• Amy Lowell,
  “Summer” (1912)
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  “Epithalamion” (1918)

To which we’ve added a few of the poems on summer themes we’ve received from contemporary poets:

• Heather Haley, “Habitat”
  
  
• Dale Harris, “Red Grain Moon”
  
  
• Christine Klocek-Lim, “Cicadas”
  
  
• Joseph Pacheco, “Dejection on a Florida Summer Afternoon”
  
  
• Lisa Shields, “Wisteria Woman”

Enjoy these poems of the season!