Fifty Shades of July: 50 of the best poems about the month of July

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· Copyright Group · Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe, and Eve Karpf
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The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar saunters into mid-summer. Temperatures rise still further. The landscape may wilt under oppressive heat but is still a spectacle of colour and structure that only Mother Nature has the resources for.

1 - Fifty Shades of July - An Introduction

2 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman

3 - An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

4 - I Saw England - July Night by Ivor Gurney

5 - A Soldiers Cemetery by John William Streets (Killed and Missing in Action on 1st July 1916 Aged 31)

6 - July 2nd 1863 by Tom Reynolds

7 - Fourth of July by Julia A Moore

8 - July 4th 1857 by Alfred Gibbs Campbell

9 - America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 by James Bayard Taylor

10 - 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight by James Kenneth Stephen

11 - Ode For the 4th of July by James Monroe Whitfield

12 - Ode For July 4th 1917 by H P Lovecraft

13 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling

14 - London in July by Amy Levy

15 - St Martin's Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

16 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley

17 - In This Summer by Daniel Sheehan

18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare

19 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly

20 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins

21 - The Sweets of the Rose by Hafiz

22 - The Rose by John Cournos

23 - The Secret Rose by William Butler Yeats

24 - The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery

25 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats

26 - Sailing to Byzantium by W B Yeats

27 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

28 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats

29 - Clouds by Mirabai

30 - Breton Afternoon by Ernest Christopher Dowson

31 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen

32 - How the Old Mountains Drip With Sunset by Emily Dickinson

33 - The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

34 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford

35 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan

36 - On Leaving Ireland, July 14th 1916 by Tom Kettle

37 - On My Sons Return Out of England July 17th 1661 by Anne Bradstreet

38 - Sonnet July 18th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

39 - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet

40 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers

41 - Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson

42 - The School Boy by William Blake

43 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson

44 - Towser, a True Tale, 20th July 1806 by Robert Tannahill

45 - Summer Dawn by William Morris

46 - Summer by Alexander Pope

47 - A Night Rain in Summer by James Henry Leigh Hunt

48 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson

49 - Sonnet at Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

50 - Picnic July 1917 by Rose Macaulay

51 - Sonnet at Ostend July 22nd 1787 by William Lisle Bowles

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