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Fifty Shades of Summer - 50 of the best poems about summer - cover
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Fifty Shades of Summer - 50 of the best poems about summer

Sara Teasdale, Rudyard Kipling, Khalil Gibran, Henry David Thoreau, Wilfred Owen, Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, John Clark, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel Lindsay

Narrator Richard Mitchley, James Taylor, Ghizela Rowe

Publisher: The Copyright Group

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Summary

Nature loosens her limbs, increases her ambition. Summer’s work is intense with colour, she paints with a brighter light.  The hours of night diminish, quickly shrink. She has no need for rest but a yearning to work.  Vibrant swathes of shooting, pulsing colour almost overwhelm. Her tempo is beyond our awed imagination.   
 
Inspired, the air, the sea, the parching earth bring elemental strength.  Summer storms, forest fires. The endless blue of sky, of ocean water will not still her work. Mistress of all. Our poets merely the inky pens of her will. 
 
In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of summer. 
 
01 - Fifty Shades of Summer - An Introduction 
02 - Summer by Alexander Pope 
03 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
04 - June by William Cullen Bryant 
05 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy 
06 - June. A Tale by William Cowper 
07 - There is a June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson 
08 - Summer Dawn by William Morris 
09 - All in June by William Henry Davies 
10 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell 
11 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt 
12 - June Night by Sara Teasdale 
13 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley 
14 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale 
15 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley 
16 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus 
17 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins 
18 - Summer by Christina Rossetti 
19 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman 
20 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats 
21 - Four Songs for Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
22 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson 
23 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford 
24 - London in July by Amy Levy 
25 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan 
26 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
27 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats 
28 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers 
29 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen 
30 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
31 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth 
32 - Summer Evening by John Clare 
33 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
34 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau 
35 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
36 - Sonnet XVIII - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare 
37 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster 
38 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
39 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive 
40 - August by James Whitcomb Riley 
41 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy 
42 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman 
43 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth 
44 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale 
45 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley 
46 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
47 - Fair Summer Drops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe 
48 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale 
49 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran 
50 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling
Duration: about 1 hour (01:13:15)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —