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“summer” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 1 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 1 / 89 1600s 1 / 176 1650s 1 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 6 / 163 1800s 7 / 684 1850s 26 / 941 1900s 10 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1900s · 10 with this theme Show all eras

Here in this spring
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Here in this spring

by Dylan Thomas · English

Dylan Thomas portrait

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

I see the boys of summer
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I see the boys of summer

by Dylan Thomas · English

Dylan Thomas portrait

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

Nearly summer
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Nearly summer

by Dylan Thomas · English

Dylan Thomas portrait

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

O, it was out by Donnycarney
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O, it was out by Donnycarney

by James Joyce · English

James Joyce portrait

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Summer Afternoon
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Summer Afternoon

by A. A. Milne · English

A. A. Milne portrait

18 January 1882 - 31 January 1956 (~74)

The Faun
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The Faun

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

Patrick Reginald Chalmers portrait

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

What lips my lips have kissed
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What lips my lips have kissed

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

Edna St. Vincent Millay portrait

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

When the Cuckoo Sings
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When the Cuckoo Sings

by W. H. Davies · English

W. H. Davies portrait

3 July 1871 - 26 September 1940 (~69)

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