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    Summer of Love
    Summer of Love
    Summer of Love
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    Summer of Love

    By Joyce Kilmer

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    Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet. Before dying in World War I, he wrote many lyrical poems that spoke of the beauty of the natural world around us. Summer of Love is a collection of these beautiful poems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharp Ink
    Release dateJun 16, 2022
    ISBN9788028209698
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      Summer of Love - Joyce Kilmer

      Joyce Kilmer

      Summer of Love

      Sharp Ink Publishing

      2022

      Contact: info@sharpinkbooks.com

      ISBN 978-80-282-0969-8

      Table of Contents

      SUMMER OF LOVE

      VILLANELLE OF LOVELAND

      THURIFER

      IN A BOOK-SHOP

      EADEM

      IN FAIRYLAND

      THE SORROWS OF KING MIDAS

      SLENDER YOUR HANDS

      SLEEP SONG

      LOVE’S THOROUGHFARE

      WHITE BIRD OF LOVE

      TRANSFIGURATION

      MY LADY

      GIFTS OF SHEE

      WHEREVER, WHENEVER

      BALLADE OF MY LADY’S BEAUTY

      LOVE’S ROSARY

      TRIBUTE

      MATIN

      A VALENTINE

      STAR O’ LOVE

      FOR A BIRTHDAY

      THE USE OF NIGHT

      ALCHEMY

      WAYFARERS

      WITH A MIRROR

      PRINCESS BALLADE

      LULLABY FOR A BABY FAIRY

      GEORGE MEREDITH

      AND FORBID THEM NOT

      A DEAD POET

      THE MORNING MEDITATIONS OF FRERE HYACINTHUS

      VILLANELLE OF THE PLAYERS

      THE MAD FIDDLER

      THE GRASS IN MADISON SQUARE

      CHEVELY CROSSING

      SAID THE ROSE

      WHITE MARBLE AND GREEN GRASS

      METAMORPHOSIS

      ABSINTHE

      THEOLOGY

      FOR A CHILD

      TO J. B. Y.

      THE KING’S BALLAD

      JESUS AND THE SUMMER RAIN

      THE BALLADE OF BUTTERFLIES

      THE CLOUDED SUN

      IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

      BALLAD OF THREE

      COURT MUSICIANS

      THE DEAD LOVER

      THE POET’S EPITAPH

      THE SUBWAY

      THE OTHER LOVER

      AGE COMES A-WOOING

      PRAYER TO BRAGI

      IMITATION OF RICHEPIN’S BALLADE OF THE BEGGARS’ KING

      LOVE AND THE FOWLER’S BOY

      THE WAY OF LOVE

      SUMMER OF LOVE

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      June lavishes sweet-scented loveliness

      And sprinkles sunfilled wine on everything;

      The very leaves grow drunk with bliss and sing

      And every breeze becomes a soft caress.

      All earthly things felicity confess

      And fairies dance in many a moonlit ring;

      The fleetfoot hours fresh wealth of joyaunce bring;

      Life wears her gayest rose-embroidered dress.

      Kind June, why bear these golden gifts to me?

      All winter long I hear the throstle’s tune,

      All winter long red roses I can see,

      Reading the while Love’s ancient magic rune.

      In Love’s fair garden-close I wander free,

      So take your guerdon elsewhere, lovely June.

      VILLANELLE OF LOVELAND

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      Loveland is fair to see,

      Of all kind havens best,

      Dwell here, my Sweet, with me.

      Here flowers bloom for thee,

      Thy feet are rose-caressed,

      Loveland is fair to see.

      The violets shall be

      Thy soft and fragrant nest,

      Dwell here, my Sweet, with me.

      Thou shalt not lack for glee,

      Here life is but a jest;

      Loveland is fair to see.

      None shall be glad as we;

      Ah, grant me my behest,

      Dwell here, my Sweet, with me.

      Now would I ask my fee,

      Thy red heart I request;

      Loveland is fair to see,

      Dwell here, my Sweet, with me.

      THURIFER

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      In a carven censer of burnished words,

      Swung on a golden chain of rhythm,

      For you I burn my heart.

      IN A BOOK-SHOP

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      All day I serve

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