The Poetry of July

The seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and Summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.
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July - An Introduction

July 2nd 1863 By Tom Reynolds

America, From The National Ode July 4th 1876 By James Bayard Taylor

4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight By James Kenneth Stephen

Fourth Of July By Julia A Moore

July 4th 1857 By Alfred Gibbs Campbell

Ode For July 4th 1917 By HP Lovecraft

Ode For The 4th Of July By James Monroe Whitfield

Sonnet LVII - Summit Of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 By Henry Alford

July 9th 1872 By Abram Joseph Ryan

London In July By Amy Levy

St Martins Summer By Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer By Alexander Pope

L' Envoi (An Extract) By Rudyard Kipling

Broadway, New York, July 1916 By George Sterling

In This Summer By Daniel Sheehan

A July Afternoon By The Pond By Walt Whitman

On The Grasshopper And Cricket By John Keats

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day (Sonnet 18) By William Shakespeare

On My Sons Return Out Of England July 17th 1661 By Anne Bradstreet

Sonnet July 18th 1787 By William Lisle Bowles

Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July 18th 1666 By Anne Bradstreet

Sonnet At Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787 By William Lisle Bowles

Summer Sun By Robert Louis Stevenson

Sonnet At Ostend July 22nd 1787 By William Lisle Bowles

Between The Dusk Of Summer By William Ernest Henley

Summer Night By Alfred Lord Tennyson

The School Boy By William Blake

Answer July By Emily Dickinson

Written In July By Samuel Rogers

From My Diary July 1914 By Wilfred Owen.