January, A Month In Verse

By Henry Alford, John Clare and Lord Byron

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 guide to the days within each. This volume of Poetry is all about January - the first month of the year in our Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year and promises new beginnings. The cold and bleak landscape of this winter month provides a rich background for our esteemed poets including Lord Byron, Henry Alford, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Sheehan, Emily Dickinson and Christina Georgina Rossetti. They amongst many others offer us their reflections and counterpoints. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry read for you by, amongst others, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005171

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January, 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 guide to the days within each.  

This volume of Poetry is all about January - the first month of the year in our Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year and promises new beginnings. The cold and bleak landscape of this winter month provides a rich background for our esteemed poets including Lord Byron, Henry Alford, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Sheehan, Emily Dickinson and Christina Georgina Rossetti. They amongst many others offer us their reflections and counterpoints. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry read for you by, amongst others, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Many samples are at our youtube channel  http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee

Index Of Poems

JANUARY 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis

WRITTEN JANUARY 1st 1792 by Janet Little

WRITTEN JANUARY 1, 1832 by Henry Alford

THE SHEPHERDS CALENDAR - JANUARY – WINTERS DAY by John Clare

JANUARY COLD DESOLATE by Christina Georgina Rossetti

WRITTEN DURING AN AURORA BOREALIS, JANUARY 7, 1831 by Henry Alford

ON MY THIRTY THIRD BIRTHDAY – JANUARY 22nd  1821 by Lord Byron

ODE ON THE PRESENT TIMES, 27th JANUARY 1795 by Amelia Opie

A SONNET OCCASIONED BY THE BAD WEATHER WHICH HINDERED THE SPORTS

AT NEWMARKET IN JANUARY, 1616 by William Drummond

SONNET LIX. WRITTEN AT AMPTON, SUFFOLK, JANUARY 1838 by Henry Alford

ON THE DISCOVERIES OF CAPTAIN LEWIS (JANUARY 14, 1807) by Joel Barlow

JANUARY by Alice Cary

A CALENDAR OF SONNETS: JANUARY by Helen Hunt Jackson

JANUARY 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson

A TALE, FOUNDED ON A FACT, WHICH HAPPENED IN JANUARY, 1779 by William Cowper

A SONG FOR JANUARY 26th 1824 by Charles Tompson

ARM! THE FIRST RIFLE BALLAD, JANUARY, 1852 by Martin Farquhar Tupper

PROMISES THAT FAIL THEIR MAKERS LIP By Daniel Sheehan

THE OLD YEAR by John Clare

THE MEETING by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

AT THE ENTERING OF THE NEW YEAR by Thomas Hardy

EDEN IN WINTER by Vachel Lindsay

IT IS WINTER by Daniel Sheehan

WORK WITHOUT HOPE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

THE FARM WOMAN’S WINTER by Thomas Hardy

WINTER: MY SECRET by Christina Georgina Rossetti

PRAY TO WHAT EARTH DOES THIS SWEET COLD BELONG by Henry David Thoreau

THE FIRST SNOW FALL by James Russell Lowell

WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND by Algernon Charles Swinburne

SNOWFLAKES by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

SNOW BENEATH WHO’S CHILLY SOFTNESS by Emily Dickinson

THE WINTERS ARE