| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Lyrics.
I. A Summer Wind | | By Michael Field (Katherine Harris Bradley) (1846–1914) |
| | | O WIND, thou hast thy kingdom in the trees, | |
| And all thy royalties | |
| Sweep through the land to-day. | |
| It is mid June, | |
| And thou, with all thy instruments in tune, | 5 |
| Thine orchestra | |
| Of heaving fields and heavy swinging fir, | |
| Strikest a lay | |
| That doth rehearse | |
| Her ancient freedom to the universe. | 10 |
| All other sound in awe | |
| Repeats its law: | |
| The bird is mute; the sea | |
| Sucks up its waves; from rain | |
| The burthened clouds refrain, | 15 |
| To listen to thee in thy leafery, | |
| Thou unconfined, | |
| Lavish, large, soothing, refluent summer wind. | | | | |
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