A drop fell on the apple tree,

Another on the roof ;

A half a dozen kissed the eaves,

And made the gables laugh.


A few went out to help the...

Poet:

Summer — we all have seen —

A few of us — believed —

A few — the more aspiring

Unquestionably loved —


But Summer does not care —

She goes her spacious way

As eligible as the moon

To our...

Poet:

On fence and roof and twig.

The orchis binds her feather on

For her old love, Don the Sun,

Revisiting the bog !


Without commander, countless, still,

The regiment of wood and hill

In bright detachment...

Poet:
Poet:

Talk not to me of Summer Trees

The foliage of the mind

A Tabernacle is for Birds

Of no corporeal kind

And winds do go that way at noon

To their Ethereal Homes

Whose Bugles call the least of us

...

Poet:

The last of Summer is Delight —

Deterred by Retrospect.

'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review —

Enchantment's Syndicate.


To meet it — nameless as it is —

Without celestial Mail —

Audacious as without a...

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The One who could repeat the Summer day —

Were greater than itself — though He

Minutest of Mankind should be —


And He — could reproduce the Sun —

At period of going down —

The Lingering — and the Stain — I mean...

Poet:

The Summer that we did not prize,

Her treasures were so easy

Instructs us by departing now

And recognition lazy —


Bestirs itself — puts on its Coat,

And scans with fatal promptness

For Trains that...

Poet:

There came a Day at Summer's full,

Entirely for me —

I thought that such were for the Saints,

Where Resurrections — be —


The Sun, as common, went abroad,

The flowers, accustomed, blew,

As if no soul...

Poet:

To see the Summer Sky

Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie —

True Poems flee —

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