Summer Poems
Poems to make you one with the sun.
BY The Editors
Summering in Wildwood, NJ
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
- Muriel Rukeyser
Country Summer
Léonie Adams
More Than Enough
Marge Piercy
The Unknown Bird
Edward Thomas
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout
Gary Snyder
- Carlo Betocchi
- Yusef Komunyakaa
Nostalgia (The Lake at Night)
Lloyd Schwartz
Morningside Heights, July
William Matthews
Genius Loci
Brian Teare
Chinatown Diptych
Jenny Xie
Soon the City
Liam Rector
In Defense of Our Overgrown Garden
Matthea Harvey
- John Montague
Hello, the Roses
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
A Parking Lot in West Houston
Monica Youn
- Hailey Leithauser
- H.D.
- D. A. Powell
- Robert Duncan
- Lee Young-ju
At Noon
Reginald Gibbons
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
Jack Spicer
Bed in Summer
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jennifer O'Grady
- Stephen Kuusisto
The Mower to the Glow-Worms
Andrew Marvell
First Blues
Saundra Rose Maley
The World in the Evening
Rachel Sherwood
- Marie Ponsot
Fireflies
Frank Ormsby
- Rita Dove
- Emily Berry
Summer (a love poem)
Frank Lima
The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Still Life
Roberto Tejada
- Frank O’Hara
Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William Shakespeare
"She had forgotten how the August night"
Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Blossoms
Li-Young Lee
- Danez Smith
First Fire
Camille T. Dungy
Rabbits and Fire
Alberto Ríos
- Arthur Sze
Dog Days of Summer
Meena Alexander
- John Rodriguez
- W. S. Graham
In the Mushroom Summer
David Mason
- Lucia Perillo
- Mary Oliver
August Morning
Albert Garcia
Lake Echo, Dear
C. D. Wright
And So Long, I’ve Had You Fame
Lucie Brock-Broido
- Lynda Hull
- Jane Kenyon
Blackberry-Picking
Seamus Heaney
Last August Hours Before the Year 2000
Naomi Shihab Nye
Bright Leaf
Ellen Bryant Voigt
September
Deborah Landau
Summer's Almost Gone
William Trowbridge
Late Summer
Jennifer Grotz
A Sunset of the City
Gwendolyn Brooks
“From the Sustaining Air”
Larry Eigner