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Rio de Janeiro Summer Games

What happened at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games  Rio Closing Ceremony AP Related Links 2016 Rio Games by the Numbers…

X-File: A Guide to the Summer X Games

by John Gettings The street luge is speeding towards a TV near you, as one of nine "alternative" sports to be featured at the fifth Summer X Games. Related Links Summer X Games Medal Winners (…

Canoe/Kayak in the 2012 Summer Olympics

First Olympic Appearance: 1924 by Gerry Brown and Mark Zurlo Did You Know? The four-person sprint kayaks can reach speeds fast enough to pull a water-skier. Related Links Olympics…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Summer's Obsequies

by EmilyDickinsonXLVIFringed GentianSummer's Obsequies Summer's Obsequies The gentian weaves her fringes, The maple's loom is red. My departing blossoms Obviate parade. A brief, but…

Sara Teasedale: Summer Night, Riverside

Summer Night, RiversideIn the wild soft summer darkness How many and many a night we two together Sat in the park and watched the Hudson Wearing her lights like golden spangles Glinting on…

William Ellery Leonard: Indian Summer

Indian Summer(After completing a book for one now dead)William Ellery Leonard (O Earth-and-Autumn of the Setting Sun, She is not by, to know my task is done.) In the brown grasses slanting…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Summer and Winter

by Percy Bysshe Shelley LibertyThe Tower of FamineSummer and Winter Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. Mr. C.W. Frederickson of Brooklyn possesses a transcript in Mrs.…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Summer Shower

by EmilyDickinsonXPsalm of the DaySummer Shower Summer Shower A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Indian Summer

by EmilyDickinsonXXVIAutumnIndian Summer Indian Summer These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Summer's Armies

by EmilyDickinsonVIIThe GrassSummer's Armies Summer's Armies Some rainbow coming from the fair! Some vision of the world Cashmere I confidently see! Or else a peacock's purple train,…