Looking for summer poems for your kids? Check out our list.
Summer’s Splendor By The Sea by Patricia L. Cisco
Missing Summer by Destinee
It’s Hot! by Shel Silverstein
A Bird Song by Christina Rossetti
In the Mountains on a Summer Day by Li Po
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina by Jack Gilbert
Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar
For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
A Green Crab’s Shell by Mark Doty
Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ground Swell by Mark Jarman
In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar
[The cry of the cicada] by Matsuo Basho
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July by Billy Collins
July by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
This Is Not a Small Voice by Sonia Sanchez
Still Life with Invisible Canoe by Idra Novey
I, Too by Langston Hughes
Summer Magic by Leslie Pinckney Hill“She poured her sunshine on the earth.”
The Seasons Moralized by Philip Freneau
Ode to Kool-Aid by Marcus Jackson
By the Stream by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Summer Haibun by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
A Night in the Field by Jay Parini
Road at Ache by Kazim Ali
Summer Silence by E. E. Cummings
Summer Rain by Amy Lowell
In Summer Time by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Summer in Winter in Summer by Noah Eli Gordon
August by Helen Hunt Jackson
Muffin of Sunsets by Elaine Equi
Mist Valley by James Longenbach
Goodnight, Great Summer Sky by Rose Styron
