The Poetry of July

July - the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and summer is a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Shakespeare, Keats, Pope, Whitman, and Tennyson describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight. The tracks are: July - An Introduction July 2nd 1863, by Tom Reynolds America, From the National Ode, July 4th 1876, by James Bayard Taylor 4th July 1882, Malines, Midnight, by James Kenneth Stephen Fourth of July, by Julia A Moore July 4th 1857, by Alfred Gibbs Campbell Ode for July 4th 1917, by H P Lovecraft Ode for the 4th of July, by James Monroe Whitfield Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838, by Henry Alford July 9th 1872, by Abram Joseph Ryan London in July, by Amy Levy St Martins Summer, by Robert Louis Stevenson Summer, by Alexander Pope L' Envoi (An Extract), by Rudyard Kipling Broadway, New York, July 1916, by George Sterling In This Summer, by Daniel Sheehan A July Afternoon by the Pond, by Walt Whitman On the Grasshopper and C