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Warm weather, beautiful flowers… it must be July!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This month’s poem, July<\/em> by Susan Swett, is an old one. The poet died in Boston in 1907. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan lived with her younger sister Sophie, and both made their living as writers. Susan wrote poems and short stories. Her sister wrote stories and for a while was an editor of Youth’s Companion<\/em> magazine. Susan’s poems appeared in children’s magazines like St. Nicholas<\/em> as well as periodicals aimed at adult readership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all her work, July<\/em> is probably Susan Swett’s most famous poem. It appeared in children’s readers, women’s magazines, and you can find it online today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life of the poet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born in Maine in 1843, Susan wrote one book of short stories, Field Clover and Beach Grass<\/a><\/em>. It was published in 1898. A regional writer, her stories focus on the New England area that she knew. Much of Field Clover and Beach Grass<\/em> is written in a New England dialect. However, she wrote her poems in standard English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published the day after her death, her obituary says, “her poems… reflected in a peculiarly happy manner the writer’s intimate knowledge of nature and her fondness for birds and flowers and all the various phases of the outdoor world. She was a ‘nature lover’ in the broadest and best sense, and though her fine talent for writing was for many years hindered by impaired health she has left many word-pictures of field and forest and garden that are deemed among the best of their kind.” (The Boston Globe, Jan 1, 1908.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I hope you enjoy this month’s magazine poem, July<\/em>, by Susan Swett. It appeared in a copy of Needlecraft<\/em> magazine in the early 1920s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        July \nby Susan Hartley Swett \n\nWhen the scarlet cardinal tells\n  Her dream to the dragon-fly,\nAnd the lazy breeze makes a nest in the trees,\n  And murmurs a lullaby\u2013\u2013\n    It is July.\n\nWhen the tangled cobweb pulls\n  The cornflower's cap awry,\nAnd the lilies tall lean over the wall\n  To bow to the butterfly\n    It is July.\n\nWhen the heat like a mist-veil floats,\n  And poppies flame in the rye,\nAnd the silver note in the streamlet's throat\n  Has softened almost to a sigh\u2013\u2013\n    It is July.\n\nWhen the hours are so still that time\n  Forgets them and lets them lie\nNeath petals pink till the night stars wink\n  At the sunset in the sky\u2013\u2013\n    It is July.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
If you would like to read other poems that magazines of the day thought their readers might enjoy, see A Song of June<\/a> and Hurdy Gurdy Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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