Summer Poems
Poems to make you one with the sun.
BY The Editors
Morningside Heights, July
William Matthews
The Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin
On the Move
Thom Gunn
Sumer is i-cumin in
Anonymous
Bath
Amy Lowell
Genius Loci
Brian Teare
Chinatown Diptych
Jenny Xie
- John Rodriguez
“From the Sustaining Air”
Larry Eigner
- W. S. Graham
A Parking Lot in West Houston
Monica Youn
Soon the City
Liam Rector
The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Emily Berry
Summer (a love poem)
Frank Lima
Endless Summer
Nate Pritts
Anonymous Lyric
Connie Voisine
Still Life
Roberto Tejada
The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fireflies in the Garden
Robert Frost
Bed in Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Firefly
Jacqueline Woodson
Country Summer
Léonie Adams
At Noon
Reginald Gibbons
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Gary Snyder
More Than Enough
Marge Piercy
- Lynda Hull
One With The Sun
A. F. Moritz
In the Mushroom Summer
David Mason
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
- Carlo Betocchi
The Unknown Bird
Edward Thomas
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The crowd at the ball game
William Carlos Williams
Clothespins
Stuart Dybek
Baseball
Gail Mazur
- Jennifer O'Grady
- Stephen Kuusisto
Jet
Tony Hoagland
The Mower to the Glow-Worms
Andrew Marvell
First Blues
Saundra Rose Maley
The World in the Evening
Rachel Sherwood
- Hailey Leithauser
- Marie Ponsot
Nostalgia (The Lake at Night)
Lloyd Schwartz
In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden
Matthea Harvey
The Fact of the Garden
Minnie Bruce Pratt
- John Montague
The Definition of Gardening
James Tate
- Lucia Perillo
- Mary Makofske
Mowing
Robert Wrigley
In These Soft Trinities
Patricia Goedicke
The Butterfly’s Dream
Hannah F. Gould
The Children
Mark Jarman
Fireflies
Frank Ormsby
- Jane Kenyon
Blackberry-Picking
Seamus Heaney
Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
Naomi Shihab Nye
Bright Leaf
Ellen Bryant Voigt
A Dirge
Christina Rossetti
September
Deborah Landau
Summer's Almost Gone
William Trowbridge
Late Summer
Jennifer Grotz