In this Boris Pasternak poem, July is compared to a unkempt and untidy summer lodger, who enters our house and interrupts our carefully regulated work routine.
Here’s a relaxing poem by “hoosier poet” James Whitcomb Riley to welcome in the summer.
Here’s a Robert Bridges poem poem to help you enjoy summer in all of its splendor. And bring along a book of verse while you’re at it.
Summer, with its memories of water and sun, may be ending, but this Frithjof Schuon reminds us that the real summer is within.
As we look back at the summer that is coming to an end, did we lose ourselves in a time of innocence or did we worry that time was passing too fast? This Rachel Hadas poem suspects the second.
“Midsummer Night’s Dream” dips into ancient British legends about the mystical aspects of midsummer.
Emily Dickinson has written the most passionate summer poem I know.
