March, A Month In Verse

By Johathan Swift, Archibald Lampman and Amy Lowell

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 March - the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the Ides of March together with the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including WB Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Katherine Mansfield, William Morris, Alfred Austin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, who with many others provide words to bring the month to life. 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 Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Copyright Group
• Release date: Sep 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781780005195

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March, 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 March - the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the Ides of March together with the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including WB Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Katherine Mansfield, William Morris, Alfred Austin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, who with many others provide words to bring the month to life. 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  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

INDEX OF POEMS

FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH by William Butler Yeats

STELLA’S BIRTHDAY MARCH 13th,  1727 by Jonathan Swift

A MARCH SNOW by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

THE MESSAGE OF THE MARCH WIND by William Morris

IN MARCH by Archibald Lampman

MARCH EVENING by  Amy Lowell

MARCH by Alfred Edward Housman

MARCH – AN ODE by Algernon Charles Swinburne

MY LITTLE MARCH GIRL by Paul Laurence Dunbar

WRITTEN IN LONDON, ON THE 19th OF MARCH 1796 by Matilda Betham

TO  A DAISY FOUND BLOOMING MARCH 7th by John Hartley

MARCH by  John Payne

A MARCH MINSTREL by Alfred Austin

SONNET XLIII. THE MALVERN HILLS, MARCH 12, 1835 by Henry Alford

VERY EARLY SPRING by Katherine Mansfield

WINTER IN NORTHUMBERLAND by Algernon Charles Swinburne

MONADNOCK IN EARLY SPRING by Amy Lowell

LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING by William Wordsworth

MARCH by A. E. Houseman

LETTER FROM TOWN: ON A GREY MORNING IN MARCH by DH Lawrence

MARCH: AN ODE by Algernon Charles Swinburne

FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH by