A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic ― Birthdays: 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic

Written by Christina Rossetti, Lucretia Maria Davidson, Lord Byron and 9 more

Narrated by Stella Gonet, Ghizela Rowe and Warren Keyes

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Birthdays - An Introduction

2 - A Birthday by Christina Rossetti

3 - On My Mother's Fiftieth Birthday by Lucretia Maria Davidson

4 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd 1821 by Lord Byron

5 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

6 - Song of the Democratic Review of it's Birthday, October the 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace

7 - Stella's Birthday, March 13th 1727 by Jonathan Swift

8 - On Tea by Edmund Waller

9 - To H W L on His Birthday 27th February 1867 by James Russell Lowell

10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, On Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker

11 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16 My Birthday by Jane Austen

12 - Shakespeare. An Ode for His Three-Hundreth Birthday by Martin Farquhar Tupper

13 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835479230

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. She was the youngest child in a creative Italian family, which included her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, a poet and political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti started writing at a young age and her poems were often influenced by her religious faith. She published various poems in literary magazines, but it was Goblin Market & Other Poems, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that established her position as a prominent poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from cancer, but she continued to write until her death in 1894.