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Celebrate Summer with Poem for Today!

We have summer poems from across the world, interspersed, as always, by meditations on the human condition.

Sadly, my attempt at sympathetic magic - to bring summer conditions to the UK through evoking images of warmth, fruitfulness and languor - has only succeeded in bringing yet further downpours.

I thought it might be time to build an ark but the hardware stores are all out of gopherwood. 

Ah, well ... 

July

 

1

Jack Gilbert

Mary Oliver

Richard Wilbur

American

American

American

Portrait Number Five

Little Poem Touching Faith

In Praise of Summer

 

2

Wislawa Szymborska

Polish

The Ball

Thank You Letter

 

3

W H Davies

Geraldine Stevens

English

American

When On a Summer’s Morn

The Summer I was Sixteen

Blue Bridge

 

4

Ted Berrigan

Sasha Skenderija

American

Bosnian

Last Poem

Craftsmen

Untitled

 

7

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Michael Hamburger

German

English

Divorce

Muted Song

 

8

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English

A Summer Evening Churchyard

 

9

John Heath-Stubbs

English

Inscription

To My Brother in Rhodesia

 

10

Claude McKay

Louise Gluck

Jamaican

American

Summer Morn in New Hampshire

Summer

 

11

Jane Griffiths

English

Migration

Incident

 

14

Miroslav Holub

Czech

Distant Howling

On the Building Site of a Hostel

 

15

Joseph Brodsky

Russian/American

Homage to Chekhov

 

16

Julia Copus

English

The Back Seat of my Mother’s Car

In Defence of Adultery

 

17

John Clare

A E Housman

Edna St Vincent Millay

English

English

American

Summer Evening

On the Idle Hill of Summer

I Know I am but Summer to your Heart

 

18

Elizabeth Jennings

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

English

Russian

Summer and Time

Visit

 

21

Tess Gallagher

Wendy Cope

American

English

Wake

If I Don’t know

Idyll

 

22

Carl Sandburg

Emily Dickinson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Walter Savage Landor

American

American

Scottish

English

Summer Stars

Talk Not to Me of Summer Trees

The Summer Sun Shone Round Me

In Spring and Summer Winds May Blow

 

23

Tess Gallagher

American

Lilac-Light

 

24

Robert Graves

English

A Lost Jewel

The Face in the Mirror

Leaving the Rest Unsaid

 

25

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

English

This Lime Tree Bower My Prison

 

28

Michael Longley

Gerald Manley Hopkins

N Irish

English

Detour

No worst there is none

Heaven-Haven

 

29

Stanley Kunitz

American

The Round

Touch Me

 

30

U A Fanthorpe

English

Washing Up

 

31

Primo Levi

Italian

Song of Those who Died in Vain

Almanac

 

 

 

 
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