Fifty Shades of January: 50 of the best poems about the month of January

Written by William Shakespeare, William Blake, Robert Frost and 9 more

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, Richard Mitchley and Gideon Wagner

The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter; wind, storms, silence.

1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction

2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc

3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey

4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford

5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti

6 - January 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis

7 - Written January 1st, 1792 by Janet Little

8 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

9 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy

10 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson

11 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird

12 - Winter Dusk by Sara Teasdale

13 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell

14 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan

15 - Sunset by Ann Radcliffe

16 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield

17 - Winter Nightfall by Robert Seymour Bridges

18 - A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale

19 - Written During an Aurora Borealis January 7th, 1831 by Henry Alford

20 - Spellbound by Emily Bronte

21 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith

22 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville

23 - Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte

24 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin

25 - To the Snow Drop by Charlotte Smith

26 - Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare

27 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson

28 - Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29 - January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson

30 - I Who All the Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson

31 - Winter by Khalil Gibran

32 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire

33 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan

34 - Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare

35 - At Castle Wood by Emily Bronte

36 - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

37 - The Divine Lullaby by Eugene Field

38 - A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779 by William Cowper

39 - To Winter By William Blake

40 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet

41 - A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at Newmarket in January 1616 by William Drummond

42 - A Shropshire Lad XVII - Twice a Week the Winter Through by A E Housman

43 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January the 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow

44 - The Battle of the Cowpens January 18th, 1781 by Thomas Dunn

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

46 - A Song For January 26th, 1824 by Charles Tompson

47 - Ode on the Present Time, 27th January, 1795 by Amelia Opie

48 - Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852 by Martin Farquar Tupper

49 - January by Alice Carey

50 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

51 - As You Like It Act II Sc VII - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781803540788

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) is arguably the most famous playwright to ever live. Born in England, he attended grammar school but did not study at a university. In the 1590s, Shakespeare worked as partner and performer at the London-based acting company, the King’s Men. His earliest plays were Henry VI and Richard III, both based on the historical figures. During his career, Shakespeare produced nearly 40 plays that reached multiple countries and cultures. Some of his most notable titles include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. His acclaimed catalog earned him the title of the world’s greatest dramatist.