Nature loosens her limbs, increases her ambition. Summer's work is intense with colour, she paints with a brighter light. The hours of night diminish, quickly shrink. She has no need for rest but a yearning to work. Vibrant swathes of shooting, pulsing colour almost overwhelm. Her tempo is beyond our awed imagination. Inspired, the air, the sea, the parching earth bring elemental strength. Summer storms, forest fires. The endless blue of sky, of ocean water will not still her work. Mistress of all. Our poets merely the inky pens of her will.In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of summer.01 - Fifty Shades of Summer - An Introduction02 - Summer by Alexander Pope03 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox04 - June by William Cullen Bryant05 - A June Tide Echo by Amy Levy06 - June. A Tale by William Cowper07 - There is a June When Corn is Cut by Emily Dickinson08 - Summer Dawn by William Morris09 - All in June by William Henry Davies10 - Dog Days by Amy Lowell11 - The Idlers Calender - Twelve Sonnets for the Months - June by Wilford Scawen Blunt12 - June Night by Sara Teasdale13 - June at Woodruff by James Whitcomb Riley14 - Dusk in June by Sara Teasdale15 - Between the Dusk of Summer by William Ernest Henley16 - A June Night by Emma Lazarus17 - Epithalamion by Gerard Manley Hopkins18 - Summer by Christina Rossetti19 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman20 - On the Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats21 - Four Songs for Four Seasons by Algernon Charles Swinburne22 - Answer July by Emily Dickinson23 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford24 - London in July by Amy Levy25 - July 9th 1872 by Abram Joseph Ryan26 - Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson27 - A Man Young and Old - Summer and Spring by William Butler Yeats28 - Written in July by Samuel Rogers29 - From My Diary July 1914 by Wilfred Owen30 - Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar31 - The Longest Day by William Wordsworth32 - Summer Evening by John Clare33 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant34 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau35 - Summer Night by Alfred Lord Tennyson36 - Sonnet XVIII - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day by William Shakespeare37 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster38 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne39 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive40 - August by James Whitcomb Riley41 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy42 - From Piccadilly in August by John Freeman43 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth44 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale45 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley46 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay47 - Fair Summer Drops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe48 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale49 - Summer by Kahlil Gibran50 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling