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Poems for Summer

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...

From "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare

More poems for Summer:

Summer Holiday by Robinson Jeffers
When the sun shouts and people abound...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?...

Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins
I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna...

They'll spend the summer by Joshua Beckman
They'll spend the summer...

Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child by Darcy Cummings
One summer afternoon, I learned by body...

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night...

Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits by Liam Rector
Fat Southern men in their summer suits...


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