For language and poor maidens and the last day of June, since I know how to count these things after all, from Sound the Deep Waters: Women’s Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age.
from The Mountain Maid / by Dora Sigerson Shorter
Half seated on a mossy crag,
Half crouching in the heather;
I found a little Irish maid,
All in June’s golden weather.
For moments that shine, wherever you find them, from Poem A Day, Volume 2.
from Sparkles from the Wheel / by Walt Whitman
Where the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on the livelong day,
Withdrawn I join a group of children watching, I pause aside with them.
For sharing your gifts, from Paris Spleen, translated by Louise Varèse.
from The Fairies’ Gifts / by Charles Baudelaire
I refer to the law that, in such a case as the present when gifts run short, gives a Fairy the power to accord one more gift, provided she has imagination enough to create one on the spot.
For the end of the school year and the season ahead, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Summer / by John Clare
For language, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Claribel / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
For the season, though I see some of our Colorado friends have snow today, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Spring / by Gerard Manley Hopkins
For those who serve and protect, with sorrow for the need, from The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson.
from Charge of the Light Brigade / by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d
For rain and more rain, and I think they’ve declared us officially out of the drought for the moment, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Rain / by Edward Thomas
Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
For the day’s way of clearing the clouds and blue-ing the sky, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Who Has Seen the Wind? / by Christina Rossetti
For the day, which is all blue and green today before the storm tomorrow, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Spring / by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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