Poems

Chapter 28: SONNET. ON THE APPROACH OF SUMMER.

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This collection gathers lyrical pieces that trace the day's and year's cycles, moving through sunrise, morning, noonday, sunset, moonlight and seasonal scenes. It pairs brief landscape lyrics with sonnets, songs, and occasional narrative ballads, blending vivid natural description—mountains, streams, birds, and coastal views—with meditative reflections on mortality, faith, memory, and poetic ambition. The tone alternates between pastoral celebration and sober contemplation, favoring clear sensory detail, moral sentiment, and accessible stanza forms that foreground feeling and observation over formal experimentation.

SONNET.
ON THE APPROACH OF SUMMER.

Summer approaches, filling earth with flowers,

The skies with beauty, and the woods with song,

While April, like a coy bride, wends along

In tearful smiles, half-wooed by the gay hours.

All nature breathes a welcome to young May,

Summer's bright harbinger, who bears her smile

Through every land, with blooming health the while,

And all are blest who feel her gladd'ning ray.

How pleasant 'tis beneath the summer noon,

When the soft wind hath lulled itself asleep,

On some fair hill a festival to keep,

While fancy on the wing revisits soon

Th' o'erarching world, the true, the pure, the fair,

Gath'ring with bliss all inspiration there.