Summer is here at last!
The next few months will be full of al fresco dining, bright evenings, and beach trips, interspersed with lots and lots of reading. To mark this season of sandcastles and ice cream we have gathered five of favourite Summer poems.
Let us know which of your own favourite poems remind you of the Summer time.
A Summer Day by Lucy Maud Montgomery

In Summer by Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Something in a Summer’s Day by Emily Dickinson

Summer in the Mountains by Li Po

Summer Dawn by Spike Milligan


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