But in the portion offered as today’s Poem of the day — “Summer,” the halcyon season in “a sprightlier ... autumn nights and the “winter’s news.” Drawing on august, and Augustan, sources, such as Pope ...

evoking a sense of purity and mystique in the summer's night. Full text available here or listen to a recording of the poem. 3. Wie freu' ich mich der Sommerwonne! by August Heinrich Hoffmann von ...

Although Memorial Day weekend is viewed as an unofficial start to summer, the season properly starts on June 20. But being ...

August goes by so quick ... If you refuse to believe it ends badly, return to 6. At the end of the summer, you wrote bad poetry. Inexplicable, s—ty, broken-down poetry that couldn’t even ...

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August,” author Jenny ... winning poet Mary Oliver does in her poem “The Summer Day”: “Tell me, what is ...

The title of this poem subverts expectations right away. After all, we associate summer with pleasure: vacations, the beach, sunshine. Each line operates in the declarative. Many lines end with a ...

Summer is the perfect season to dive into the world of poetry. With six free summer acrostic poem templates, half in color and half ready to be decorated, you can craft your own acrostic poems ...

So we’re stuck with translations that at least have a whiff of the spare particularities of the Chinese verse — translations such as today’s Poem of the Day, “In the Mountains on a Summer Day,” ...

Written in response to the “Red Summer,” a period of lynchings and violence against blacks that swept the USA in 1919, McKay’s poem urges readers to be brave and fight back in the face of death.