Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973. I am yours as the summer air at evening is”, and his last two lines being “Your love is the weather of my being. What is an island without the sea?” He uses Summer and the weather as a simile for this love and he goes on to admit that what would he be without this love.  This short poem uses words like blossoms and bleakness, which are words frequently used to describe things in nature, but uses them to describe love. 

I am yours as the summer air at evening is
Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms,

As the snowcap gleams with light
Lent it by the brimming moon.

Without you I’d be an unleafed tree
Blasted in a bleakness with no Spring.

Your love is the weather of my being.
What is an island without the sea?