Lyric Poem · Summer
Summer is shorter than any one
Summer is shorter than any one —
Life is shorter than Summer —
Seventy Years is spent as quick
As an only Dollar —
Sorrow — now — is polite — and stays —
See how well we spurn him —
Equally to abhor Delight —
Equally retain him —
This poem is in the public domain.
“Summer is shorter than any one” by Emily Dickinson — quilloak.com/poems/summer-is-shorter-than-any-one
Keep reading
August Afternoon
The QuillOak Editors
august afternoon —the garden hose, the shriekingjoy of being eight
3 lines · haiku
Cicadas at Dusk
The QuillOak Editors
cicadas at duskturning the whole heat to song —even the heat sings
3 lines · haiku
From Sunset to Star Rise
Christina Rossetti
Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not:I am no summer friend, but wintry cold,A silly sheep benighted from the fold,
14 lines · lyric