Fifty Shades of August: 50 of the best poems about the month of August

Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.

1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction

2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield

3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint

4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley

5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch

6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive

7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins

8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon

9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon

10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker

11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth

12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley

13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter

14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive

15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford

16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg

17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford

18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth

19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth

20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay

21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster

22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford

23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne

24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan

25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley

26 - After Sunset by William Allingham

27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew

28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar

29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley

30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale

31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall

32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte

33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman

34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy

35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau

36 - Snake by D H Lawrence

37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch

38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield

39 - Seashore by Tagore

40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune

41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke

42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale

43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay

44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats

46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz

47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne

48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore

49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti

50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe

51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling