Potential Titles: Summer

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Midsummer.


Thirst for a rapid, riper summer - Rasha Abdulhadi "plum out of season"

Summer whispering in the ferns - George Abraham "Unarcheology of 'Father'"

The combustion of plants through sulphurous summer - Daisy Aldan "Everywhere in Constancy, He Is Intoning, Look! Look!"

Summer birds no June shall hasten hither - "All Together" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

A shining figure cut from a summer sky - Mike Allen "Chagall's Lamp"

A dream laden summer cadence - Zaina Alsous "An-Nisa"

After the feast of summer - Julia Alvarez "Disappearing"

Seeds for next summer's weeds - Julia Alvarez "Last Trees"

Ripened dry to the song of summering jays - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Bright blue and violet summer flavors - Mouna Ammar "Stillness is Resilience"

Sad as summer parasols in a hurricane - Maya Angelou "Forgive"

Scent of thyme and summer - Raymond Antrobus "His Heart"

The great freight of the summer - Ingeborg Bachmann "The Great Freight" transl. by Bill Crisman

Where the summer never failed - Benjamin West Ball "The Penitent"

Sudden summer of thunder - Mary Jo Bang "The Ana of Bliss"

Seeds of spent summer - Mary Jo Bang "Interrupted Briefly by a Borrowed Phrase, the Scene Proceeds"

Beauty protecting against summer scorch - Mary Jo Bang "Origin of the Impulse to Speak"

Bestows her summer ices and her winter rose - Anna Laetitia Barbauld "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven"

summer our dream with its fruit - Elizabeth Bartlett "journey to jerusalem"

the winter fears destroyed the summer weather - Elizabeth Bartlett "summer and winter"

The ties of summer are ended - Elizabeth Bartlett "When Yesterday Comes"

The brighter silk of summers past - Elizabeth Bartlett "Woolen Dignity"

Tears of sorrow for the summer - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Dead Summer"

Troubled at summer's death - Ardelia Maria Barton "The Dead Summer"

Spring mixed with summer - Basho transl. by David Young

Thirty summers Neptune's bride - Cora C. Bass "Blessed Was the Name She Bore"

Tea brewed from last summer's flowers - Kyce Bello "Far Country"

Pass through bodies like summer heat - Remica Bingham-Risher "Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from/how did you arrive?"

And summer trembling on a withered vine - Arna Bontemps "The Return"

The inversion fields of an autodidactic summer - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"

The breath of summer eclipsed - Paul Cameron Brown "Fortress Snow"

Seagulls in the fashion of summer - Paul Cameron Brown "Seagulls"

A shelter from the summer shower - William Cullen Bryant "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

The summer meeting of sky and sea - Amelia Josephine Burr "A Lynmouth Widow"

Captured the gold of the summer's day - Frank Oliver Call "Hidden Treasure"

Tomatoes in the summer and pumpkins in the fall - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"

Who dreamed old summers - W. Wilfred Campbell "Departure"

When Summer walked the land - Ethna Carbery "Mea Culpa"

To spread its veil of summer frost - Giosue Carducci "Virgil" transl. by Frank Sewall

The wine that heals the summer's wounds - Paul Carroll "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"

Sought the wood in summer - Willa Cather "I Sought the Wood in Winter"

But summer comes despoiled of her delight - Willa Cather "Sonnet [Alas, that June should come when thou didst go]"

That from the crimson summer blows - Willa Cather "Thou Art the Pearl"

Your seeds are scattered on distant summer shores - May Chong "Kamcia"

As summer dreams that she is old - Florence Earle Coates "Jewel-weed"

For summer's mellowing touch must wait - Florence Earle Coates "Probation"

In the summer of sage and honey - Erin Rose Coffin "Remembering Our First Parties"

In solidarity with summer - Henri Cole "Bees"

Fair as the summer's self - Susan Coolidge "Mary"

More dazzling fair than summer roses are - Susan Coolidge "My White Chrysanthemum"

Hung out my fruit all the summer days - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik "The Wonderful Apple-Tree"

One parting dream of summer - Christopher Pearce Cranch "December"

When Summer on the earth was queen - Walter Crane "Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose"

In the winter hill's of summer - Cynthia Cruz "Riding"

with refrain of unreasoning summer - E. E. Cummings "Amores (X)"

The magic woof that summer weaves - Olive Custance "In the South"

At the fountain flowing for summer - Jim Daniels "One Arm Raised"

Before the sweeping threat of summer thunderstorms - Geffrey Davis "What I Mean When I Say Farmhouse"

Turned into a bluebird last summer - Tyree Daye "Miss Mary Mack Introduces Her Wings"

Its promised summer always postponed - Carl Dennis "Holy Brethren"

Came to continents of summer - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Love X: Transplanted"

A snake is summer's treason - Emily Dickinson "Book 3: Nature XIX: A Snake"

Winter fills summer's buckets - Chris Dombrowski "Runt Puppies in the Shade under the Porch"

Beneath as rainstorm of summer stars - Rebecca Kai Dotlich "Room of Place"

Embalmed hearts of summers dead - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"

Centuries of dead summers - Edward Dowden "Memorials of Travel V: On the Sea-Cliff"

Calm summer from a hundred fields - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"

Of stars or cloud or summer's folded sun - John Drinkwater "Tha [sic] Carver in Stone"

Brilliant jewels of summer song - Arthur Davison Ficke "Swinburne, an Elegy"

Spectres of the foam riding the summer gales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Dust of grains poured from their summer - Carolyn Forche "Tortugas"

And all that hum of summer air - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

Blossoms by the summer lightning crushed - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Lay faint on the Summer fields - Zona Gale "One Dawn She Woke Me--"

Call Summer by her name - Zona Gale "Why Am I Silent?"

Overladen with the honey of summer - Khalil Gibran "Youth and Age"

Life's red flood in summer revelry - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

Summer wind into your woe - brian g. gilmore "mardi gras in east lansing"

Last summer's garden buried in snow - Dana Gioia "The Heart of the Matter"

Deciphering the future from a dusky summer sky - Dana Gioia "Prophecy"

Summer nights of lightning bugs and Johnny Cash - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"

Summer with a thousand birds - Louis Golding "For Now Comes Summer"

And grasshoppers make summer rhyme - Louis Golding "Shepherd Singing Ragtime"

Who weaves the winter wool and summer flax - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

Summer's echo purging the common gray - Kevin Goodan "Anaphora"

While summer winds blew blithe - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Rise of the Tide"

Leaves prolong their summer zest - Louise Imogen Guiney "The Wooing Pine"

On trees still summer fine - Ivor Gurney "Migrants"

Because summer can console - Hadewijch of Brabant "My Best Success"

When friendly summer calls again - Thomas Hardy "Summer Schemes"

Apples summer left behind - Avis Harley "Feet Treat"

A sip or two of sweet summer - Avis Harley "Sipping Supper"

On diamonds at summer camp - francine j. harris "i used to write"

As flowers wane in summer's heat - Sadakichi Hartmann "My Rubaiyat XIV"

When Summer closes her pageantry - F.W. Harvey "June"

Nor stairs at summer's door - Yona Harvey "Hush Harbor"

Gullies of snow summer hasn't touched yet - Robert Hass "The Creek in Shirley Canyon"

Dipped in sunset by the summer gods - Robert Hass "Mouth Slightly Open"

Summer reigns throughout the year - "Heaven" [The Good Resolution, ed. Daniel P. Kidder, meant for Methodist Episcopal Sunday schools, 1831]

The ghost of a summer that lived for us - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"

Red with summer's ashes strewn - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: September"

Winged with the memories of Summer days - Oliver Herford and John Cecil Clay "Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke: November, Sagittarius: The Archer"

The pendant gold of necklaced summer - Jane Hirshfield "A Sweetening All Around Me as It Falls"

Whispers old advice for summer - Laura Riding Jackson "The Spring Has Many Silences"

Summer has salted our neighborhood - Marcus Jackson "40 Ounce"

Wrapped in all her summer harmonies - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"

It is the summer bears ruled - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

The last summer of pure breathlessness - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

The rejoicing face of summer - Lionel Johnson "Harvest"

Folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Remember Apollo's summer look - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

In the full throat of summer - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

Let me behold the summer sky - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Through which the summer rills run weeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Within a summer sun cloud furled - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Where the summer bees feed in thyme and clover - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Wild requiems for the summer that is gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

With your fake summer of half-thawed hives - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Skipped off into summer and the life beyond - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Hungry for summer - Ted Kooser "Old Lilacs"

The ache of amazement under summer stars - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

The surging wake of full-sailed summer - Richard Le Gallienne "Autumn"

Compel a summer storm's pent thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Rose water, sugar cane, and summer melons - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Smell the first summer rose - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Summer"

Dreams of his summer sun - Myra Cohn Livingston "Cricket Never Does: Autumn"

Summer ghosts betrayed by vision - Audre Lorde "Afterimages"

Summer had run like fire through its veins - Amy Lowell "A Japanese Wood-Carving"

Herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers - Amy Lowell "To an Early Daffodil"

The printless summer sandals of the moon - James Russell Lowell "Bon Voyage!"

Beyond the harvest and the summer glow - Francis J. Lys "On Re-reading 'Ruth'"

An empty phantom as cold as summer dew - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

The coriander, struggling all summer, alive - D. Kealiʻi MacKenzie "Miracles Welcome"

As cold as the summer dew - E.M. "Part I. To Bridget. The Invocation"

Golden summer dreams in mid-December - Naomi Long Madgett "The Time Is Now"

Memorials of Summer's ended bloom - Douglas Malloch "March"

How far apart the summers were of yore - Alice Meynell "Length of Days: to the Early Dead in Battle"

But summer to your heart - Edna St Vincent Millay "Eight Sonnets: III"

Ghosts in relict summer light - Claire Millikin "Coke-bottle Barbie-doll"

Brace for summer's aftermath - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"

With step as noiseless as the summer air - Robert Montgomery "Consumption" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"

And the summer fire my blood - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Cross through a summer of tigers - Pablo Neruda "Furies and Sorrows" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Summer in a church of gold - Pablo Neruda "Morning XXVII" transl. by Mark Eisner

The tree of intense summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly

The green whale of the summer - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Watermelon [Voyages and Homecomings]" transl. by Robert Bly

The goblet of summer was a fleeting sky - Pablo Neruda "Winter Garden" transl. by William O'Daly

Jam jars to can this summer sky - Aimee Nezhukumatathil "Summer Haibun"

In the serene trance of a summer night - Robert Nichols "The Sprig of Lime"

Like followers in the summer's slow retreat - Meredith Nicholson "October"

And never lead to summer's dust - Meredith Nicholson "A Prince's Treasure"

The spine of a summer - Naomi Shihab Nye "Family Land"

Tidings of ancient summer - Edward J. O'Brien "Hellenica"

The quick wrist of early summer - Mary Oliver "Black Snake This Time"

The quick white summer rain - Mary Oliver "Maples"

With summer's thickest garlands crowned - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Journey to Trenton Falls"

The perfumed luxuries of summer - Linda Pastan "The Serpent to Eve"

To the Summer Darkness wed - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "The Moon"

Cedar trees in summer rain - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Prayer"

A butterfly wan with summer - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Twilight Fancy"

The budding summer hopes our hearts too fondly cherished - Edward S. Rand "Fallen" [The Continental Monthly March 1862]

As summer tears apart milkweeds - Adrienne Rich "August"

Their bones recall summer leaves long lost - Lloyd Roberts "Dead Days"

A thousand little summer winds are singing in the wheat - Lloyd Roberts "England's Fields"

Caked with residue of a barefoot summer - Amy H. Robinson "Follow You"

Grew to perfect summer in one day - Rennell Rodd "At Lanuvium"

Drenched with the perfumes of summer nights and rose-hush - Hester J. Rook "Stepping the Path Trod by the Moon"

Two generations in a single summer - Ira Sadoff "My First Roses"

All summer's hoarded honey - Clinton Scollard "A King in Kerry"

Sea-horses glisten in summer - "The Sea-God's Address to Bran" transl. by Kuno Meyer

Never-resting time leads summer on - William Shakespeare "Sonnet V"

Eternal summer shall not fade - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XVIII"

For summer and his pleasures wait - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XCVII"

Rivals the pride of summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

Rejoicing all in summer's carnival - The Shepherd of Sharondale "The Floral Resurrection" (The Knickerbocker v.23:5, May 1844)

Sad dreams of wasted summer days - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Regret"

To reap the summer's glow - Joyce Sidman and Rick Allen "Winter Bees"

To isles of timeless summer - Clark Ashton Smith "The Hashish-Eater; or, The Apocalypse of Evil"

Lies unstirred at summer's heart - Clark Ashton Smith "The Winds"

The bough of summer and the winter branch - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

In summer's poppied heat - M. Letitia Stockett "Sacrament"

When Summer wakens the forest depths - Alfred B. Street "One of the 'Southern Tier of Counties'" [Graham's Magazine v.XXII no.12, Dec. 1848]

Summer coverings of cobwebs - Marion Strobel "The Room Is as We Left It"

Parrots of the summer sun - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"

That woke the world on long-dead summer days - Howard V. Sutherland "December"

Spruce trees dream of summer hours - Howard V. Sutherland "In Winter"

A banner of gold to the summer wind cast - Miss Caroline E. Sutton "The Past" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

When summer leaves grow false - A.C. Swinburne "John Jones"

The wind speaks only summer - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

Splendid summer and perfume and pride - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Wear thin with vast summer - Mary Szybist "Taiment"

Prepared at the cusp of summer - Keith Taylor "The Gleaners"

Unplay the summer's blight - Tess Taylor "Mud Season"

And strength to climb on a summer night - Sara Teasdale "Two Songs for Solitude"

The pulse of summer in the ice - Dylan Thomas "I see the boys of summer"

Count on summer evenings the apples he will eat - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: IX. The Sands"

Burps up the summer's burnt dust - Peter Twal "This Sunday in Ordinary Time"

When summer died last year - Katherine Tynan "Shamrock Song"

As the swallow flies to the Summer - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

The wonderful raiment that summer weaves - Henry van Dyke "The Foolish Fir-Tree"

Smoke scatters summer air - Amy Ludwig VanDerwater "Puff"

Sunrise on some ancient summer solstice - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

A glamour of the gorgeous summer green - Helen Hay Whitney "Alpha and Omega"

A willow when summer is over - William Carlos Williams "Willow Poem"

Nor reaping summer's fulfillment - Humbert Wolfe "The Drift of the Lute"

Summer's impossible delay - Jay Wright "Kumu"

A teapot pouring into the black cup of a summer night - Robert Wrigley "Centaur over Tomer Butte"

Into the throat of summer - Jenny Xie "Chinatown Diptych"

Tomatoes simmered on the summer vines - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"

In sunlight at the start of summer - Kevin Young "Snapdragon"

Fall is summer's bronze wing - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"

Bartered forty summers for black pearls - Cynthia Zarin "Orbit"


Ripe and summer-breathing clover-flower - John Drinkwater "The Midlands"


In the summer-land of dreams - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"


Through all the summer-time we followed - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"


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