Top 10 Summer Poems

As we are just beginning the middle of summer I thought it would be appropriate to list my top 10 favorite summer poems.

Although I’m not particularly an Emily Dickinson fan, there aren’t too many poems about summer out there (at least not classic poems). Also, I realize she has tons of fans, so she is definitely on this list.

So here they are, the top 10 summer poems:

10. 122 by Emily Dickinson

9. I know a place where Summer strives by Emily Dickinson

8. Summer by John Clare

7. Fair Summer Droops by Thomas Nashe

6. Summer by Amy Lowell

5. Penumbra by Amy Lowell

4. Sonnet 94 by William Shakespeare

3. The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier

2. The Oven Bird by Robert Frost

1. The Old Swimmin’-hole by James Whitcomb Riley