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    October, A Month In Verse
    October, A Month In Verse
    October, A Month In Verse
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    October, A Month In Verse

    By Robert Seymour Bridges, Katherine Phillips and Edmund Spenser

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide to the days within each. October - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more of its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Archibald Lampman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alfred Austin, Helen Hunt Jackson and Oliver Wendell Holmes have many lines to beguile you with. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005263
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      October, A Month In Verse - Robert Seymour Bridges

      October, A Month In Verse

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a unique poetic guide to the days within each.  October - The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more of its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Archibald Lampman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alfred Austin, Helen Hunt Jackson and Oliver Wendell Holmes have many lines to beguile you with. 

      Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee  The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      Song Of The Democratic Review Of It's Birthday, October 1st 1857 by William Ross Wallace

      An Ode, Written October 1819 Before The Spaniards Had Recovered Their Liberty by Shelley

      Anticipation, October 1803 by William Wordsworth

      Embarcation (Southampton Docks, October 1899) by Thomas Hardy

      Give Me October's Meditative Haze by Alfred Austin

      Hymm For The Celebration At The Laying Of The Cornerstone Of Harvard Memorial Hall, Cambridge, October 6th 1870 by Oliver Wendell Holmes

      An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti

      North Wind In October by Robert Seymour Bridges

      October by George Arnold

      On The Tenth Of October by Phillip Henry Savage

      October by John Jay Chapman

      Through October Fields by James Edwin Campbell

      October On The Sheep Range by Arthur Chapman

      The National Prayer, October 1840 by Henry Alford

      October by John Payne

      October by Paul Laurence Dunbar

      On The Road To Waterloo, 17th October by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

      October by William Cullen Bryant

      An October Sunset by Archibald Lampman

      October 1915 by Dora Sigerson Shorter

      October 21st 1905 by George Meredith

      October Musings 1866 by Janet Hamilton

      Lines Written October 23rd 1836, A Few Hours After The Birth Of My First Child by Henry Alford

      Written At Lovere, October 1736 By Mary Wortley Montagu

      On St Chrispins Day, October 25th, 1763 by James Wilson Claudero

      Octobers Bright Blue Weather by Helen Hunt Jackson

      Departure (Southampton Docks October 1899) by Thomas Hardy

      An October Evening by William Wilfred Campbell

      A Calendar Of Sonnets – October by Helen Hunt Jackson

      October 1803 by William Wordsworth

      Old October by James Whitcomb Riley

      The Shepherd’s Calendar - October by John Clare

      The Shepheardes Calender: October by Edmund Spenser

      In October by Archibald Lampman

      October by Dollie Radford

      Welcome To October by Janet Hamilton

      The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. October by Wilfred Scawen Blunt

      Paris, October 1936 by Cesar Vallejo

      October by Samuel Bamford

      Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London by Katherine Phillips

      The Last Three From Trafalgar At The Anniversary Banquet, October by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

      October by Francis Joseph Sherman

      An Evening In October by Sophie Margaret Hensley

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