Poems for Summer, a new About Poetry collection

The summer solstice -- longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere -- has arrived, and we’re celebrating with a new seasonal collection of poems. We begin with a few classics:

• Anonymous medieval lyric (usually sung as a round),
  “Sumer Is Icumen In” (c. 1250)
  
  
• Thomas Nashe,
  “Fair Summer Droops,” from Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1600)
  
  
• William Blake,
  “The Schoolboy,” from Songs of Experience (1794)
  
  
• John Greenleaf Whittier,
  “The Barefoot Boy” (1855)
  
  
• John Clare,
  “Summer” (1865)
  
  
• Emily Dickinson,
  “A something in a summer’s day” (#63)
  
  
• Amy Lowell,
  “Summer” (1912)
  
  
• Gerard Manley Hopkins,
  “Epithalamion” (1918)

We will be adding selected new poems to the collection, so keep an eye on this anthology over the next few weeks. You are invited to submit your own poems or suggest your favorite classics.

(Our readers in the Southern hemisphere might prefer to spend some time wandering in our Winter Poems collection right about now, since they are living in the opposite solstice, the shortest day of the year. We aim to please everybody!)