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\"\"\"\"Summer has begun– a slower, sweeter time of year for many families. I enjoy each month of the year as it arrives, but the lushness of summer greens is a special delight. Each time I pick roses, I gather a variety of lovely foliage to complement them- hostas, crimson barberry, several types of ferns, a bit of lemon balm for extra fragrance, and whatever else strikes my fancy. The cool green, gray, and burgundy shades frame the lush roses beautifully. Roses, like most stars, are loveliest with a supporting cast!<\/p>\n

It’s time for summer poems, and I’ve tried to choose three you may not know, plus a Shakespearean sonnet that always rewards another reading. These are lovely for copywork, or simply for reading and savoring. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

To Summer <\/strong>by William Blake<\/em>
\nO thou who passest thro’ our valleys in
\nThy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat
\nThat flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,
\nOft pitched’st here thy golden tent, and oft
\nBeneath our oaks hast slept, while we beheld
\nWith joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.<\/p>\n

Beneath our thickest shades we oft have heard
\nThy voice, when noon upon his fervid car
\nRode o’er the deep of heaven; beside our springs
\nSit down, and in our mossy valleys, on
\nSome bank beside a river clear, throw thy
\nSilk draperies off, and rush into the stream:
\nOur valleys love the Summer in his pride.<\/p>\n

Our bards are fam’d who strike the silver wire:
\nOur youth are bolder than the southern swains:
\nOur maidens fairer in the sprightly dance:
\nWe lack not songs, nor instruments of joy,
\nNor echoes sweet, nor waters clear as heaven,
\nNor laurel wreaths against the sultry heat.<\/p>\n

Before Summer Rain<\/strong> by Rainer Maria Rilke<\/em>
\nSuddenly, from all the green around you,
\nsomething-you don’t know what-has disappeared;
\nyou feel it creeping closer to the window,
\nin total silence. From the nearby wood<\/p>\n

you hear the urgent whistling of a plover,
\nreminding you of someone’s Saint Jerome:
\nso much solitude and passion come
\nfrom that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour<\/p>\n

will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide
\naway from us, cautiously, as though
\nthey weren’t supposed to hear what we are saying.<\/p>\n

And reflected on the faded tapestries now;
\nthe chill, uncertain sunlight of those long
\nchildhood hours when you were so afraid.<\/p>\n

Summer Stars<\/strong> by Carl Sandburg<\/em>
\nBEND low again, night of summer stars.
\nSo near you are, sky of summer stars,
\nSo near, a long arm man can pick off stars,
\nPick off what he wants in the sky bowl,
\nSo near you are, summer stars,
\nSo near, strumming, strumming,
\nSo lazy and hum-strummi<\/p>\n

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare<\/em>
\nShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
\nThou art more lovely and more temperate.
\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
\nAnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;
\nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,
\nBy chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
\nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade,
\nNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
\nNor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
\nWhen in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
\nSo long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
\nSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee.<\/p>\n

Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are some very interesting posts in today’s Carnival of Homeschooling<\/a> at The Common Room. The post about the FLDS children provides a sobering bit of food for thought, while others offer encouragement and a bit of delightfully exploratory reading.<\/p>\n

I should have the new Conquer the Test! <\/em>SAT audio workshop\/text and the little Evaluating Writing the Easy Way<\/em> book up on the website<\/a> this week, so if you’ve been waiting for it, be sure to visit toward the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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