Ever since even before William Shakespeare's famous "shall I compare thee to a summer's day" everyone's (well, should be everyone's) favorite season has gone together with poetry like peanut butter ...

June 21 is officially the first day of summer, also known as the Summer Solstice. Today holds symbolic importance, as it marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the point ...

Summer's in full swing. The birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing and the flowers are in full bloom. But does the promise of sunny days fill you with delight or foreboding? These German poems ...

MK Asante reads a poem composed for Morning Edition titled, "In Summer." The Baltimore-based writer says it is in tribute to Paul Laurence Dunbar, an African-American poet. This next poem is by Paul ...

In her poem, "Visiting My Parents in Summer," Tishani Doshi writes about returning to her childhood bedroom, where she experiences it being preserved just as she left it as a teenager. Hey, we're not ...

On your way here you may have noticed Google’s cute summer solstice doodle on their homepage, but what may be more enlightening is some endearing quotes and poems about the special day of change, ...

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-like for an instant the autumn sun bursts out, And the light through the turning elms is green and clear, It slants down the path and the ragged marigolds glow Fiery again, last flames of the ...

This week's poem is my favourite of AE Housman's superbly melancholy lyrics. The poem beginning "When summer's end is nighing" is numbered but untitled, like all the others in the 1922 collection, ...