In case you are having trouble keeping up with your summer reading,
poetry can be a perfect way to get your reading in.
So much is packed into these poems about summer that you'll get a full,
magical education in just a few lines.
"sonnet 18" by William Shakespeare.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance,or nature's changing course,untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see,
So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.
"Oh! How I love,on a fair summer's eve" by John Keats
Oh! How I love,on a fair summer's eve,
When streams of light pour down the golden west,
And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds,far,far away to leave
All meaner thoughts,and take a sweet quest,
A fragrant wild with Nature's beauty dressed,
And there into delight my soul deceive.
There warm my breast with patriotic lore,
Musing on Milton's fate,on Sidney's bier,
Till their stern forms before my mind arise-
Perhaps on the wing of poesy upsoar,
Full often dropping a delicious tear
When some melodious sorrow spells mine eyes
"Summer Stars" by Carl Sandburg
Bend low again,night of summer star.
So near,a long-arm man can pick off stars,
Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,
So near you are,summer stars,
So near,strumming,strumming,
So lazy and hum-strumming.