Summer can be amazing or it can fiercely hot and harsh. Both aspects of the season have inspired poets over the centuries. Here is a collection of great summer poems from renowned poets.

• "Warm Summer Sun" by Mark Twain
  Mark Twain's short summer poem contains the lines: "Warm summer sun,Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind, Blow softly here."
  
  
• "Midsummer" by William Cullen Bryant
  This poem of a hot summer contains the lines: "The bird hath sought his tree, the snake his den, The trout floats dead in the hot stream, and men."
  
  
• "Fireflies in the Garden" by Robert Frost
  Frost's poems about summer fireflies includes the lines: "And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size,"
  
  
• "Summer in the South" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  Dunbar's summer poem contains the lines: "The garden thrives, but the tender shoots Are yellow-green and tiny."
  
  
• "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  Stevenson's poem about the summer sunshine includes the lines: "Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven without repose; "
  
  
• "Rain in Summer" by Henry Wadsworth Longfello
  This Longfellow rain poem contains the lines:

  "How beautiful is the rain!
  How it clatters along the roofs,
  Like the tramp of hoofs
  How it gushes and struggles out."

  
  
• "Song for a Summer’s Day" by Sylvia Plath
  This Plath poem contains the lines: "Sheen of the noonsun striking Took my heart as if It were a green-tipped leaf."
  
  

You can find more poems in our Poems section