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

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar heralds a new season – Summer. Lengthening days, Sunshine days, Glorious days!
In this month our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events. The weather may be warm or windy, showers, squalls and storms may momentarily darken skies with grey foreboding but Nature will soon be at work again on a palette of such bright and dazzling hues that the landscape is reborn again.

1 - Fifty Shades of June - An Introduction

2 - June by Horatio Alger Jr

3 - June by Francis Ledwidge

4 - Verses to Her Highness, the Duchess, June 3rd 1665 by John Henry Dryden

5 - Sonnet LXII Off Ostend, June 11th 1837 by Henry Alford

6 - A Match by Algernon Swinburne

7 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

8 - Epithalamion by James Elroy Flecker

9 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats

10 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus

11 - A Night in June by Alfred Austin

12 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell

13 - Summer by Khalil Gibran

14 - Sonnet 13 - Summer Fruit by Rainer Maria Rilke

15 - A Summer Night by George William Russell

16 - June Night by Sara Teasdale

17 - A Night in June by James Edwin Campbell

18 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale

19 - All in June by William Henry Davies

20 - Bee by Emily Dickinson

21 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant

22 - June by James Whitcomb Riley

23 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield

24 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare

25 - June, A Tale by William Cowper

26 - Beachey Head by Charlotte Smith

27 - To June by George MacDonald

28 - There is A June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson

29 - Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Walter Alexander Raleigh

30 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

31 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt

32 - The Human Seasons by John Keats

33 - Summer by Christina Rossetti

34 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins

35 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane

36 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz

37 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

38 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth

39 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

40 - Sonnet LVI Written at York on the Day of the Coronation of Queen Victoria June 28th, 1838 by Henry Alford

41 - Hymn For St John's Eve the 29th June by John Henry Dryden

42 - Hymn For the Dedication of Memorial Hall at Cambridge June 23rd 1874 by Oliver Wendell Holmes

43 - To William Hayley Esq, June 29th 1793 by William Cowper

44 - June 14th by Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper

45 - On My Leaving London, June the 29th by Sarah Fyge-Egerton

46 - Pleasure's Past by John Clare

47 - A Gleam of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

48 - Sweet Empty Sky of June by Henry Vaughan

49 - June by William Cullen Bryant

50 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley

51 - Angels of Sunderland, In Memoriam, June 16th 1893 by John Hartley