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    December, A Month In Verse
    December, A Month In Verse
    December, A Month In Verse
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    December, A Month In Verse

    By Robert Southey, Robert Herrick and John Greenleaf Whittier

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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 guide to the days within each . This volume of Poetry is all about December - The 12th and final month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and Christmas provides a source of celebration. The poets including such notables as John Keats, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Percy Bsysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson reflect their views and extend their thoughts to us. 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005287
    December, A Month In Verse
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    Robert Southey

    Robert Southey (1774 –1843) was an English Romantic poet, and Poet Laureate for 30 years. He was a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, historian and biographer. Perhaps his most enduring contribution to literary history is The Story of the Three Bears, the original Goldilocks story, first published in Southey's prose collection The Doctor. His biographies include the life and works of John Bunyan, John Wesley, William Cowper, Oliver Cromwell and Horatio Nelson.

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      December, A Month In Verse - Robert Southey

      December, 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 December - The 12th and final month in the Gregorian calendar.  Winter is upon the land and Christmas provides a source of celebration.  The poets including such notables as John Keats, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Percy Bsysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson reflect their views and extend their thoughts to us.   Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      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

      Ode Written On The First Of December By Robert Southey

      A Calender Of Sonnets - December By Helen Hunt Jackson

      A December Day By Robert Fuller Murray

      A Wife In London (December 1899) By Thomas Hardy

      Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) By John Greenleaf Whittier

      How Like A Winter Hath my Absence Been - Sonnet 97 By William Shakespeare

      December By John Payne

      Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills By Percy Bysshe Shelley

      Sicily December 1908 By Henry Van Dyke

      December By John Bannister Tabb

      December Sales Drive By Daniel Sheehan

      The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Year By December By Wilfred Scawen Blunt

      The December Rose By Edith Nesbit

      On The Death Of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 By Eliza Acton

      December Matins By Alfred Austin

      To A Lady Who Presented to The Author A Lock Of Hair Braided With His Own And Appointed A Night In December To Meet Him In The Garden By Lord Byron

      Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte

      In Drear Nighted December By John Keats

      The Foolish Fir Tree By Henry Van Dyke

      The Death Of The Old Year By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Christmas At Sea By Robert Louis Stevenson

      December 23rd 1879 By George MacDonald

      Christmas Bells By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Ceremonies For Christmas By Robert Herrick

      December 27th 1879 By George MacDonald

      At The Entering Of The New Year By Thomas Hardy

      Ring Out Wild Bells By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      December by John Clare

      The Twenty Second Of December by William Cullen Bryant

      The Shepheardes Calender: December by Edmund Spenser

      Ode Written On The First Of December by Robert Southey

      Tho' now no more the musing ear

      Delights to listen to the breeze

      That lingers o'er the green wood shade,

      I love thee Winter! well.

      Sweet are the harmonies of Spring,

      Sweet is the summer's evening gale,

      Pleasant the autumnal winds that shake

      The many-colour'd grove.

      And pleasant to the sober'd soul

      The silence of the wintry scene,

      When Nature shrouds her in her trance

      Not undelightful now to roam

      The wild heath sparkling on the sight;

      Not undelightful now to pace

      The forest's ample rounds;

      And see the spangled branches shine,

      And mark the moss of many a hue

      That varies the old tree's brown bark,

      Or o'er the grey stone spreads.

      The cluster'd berries claim the eye

      O'er the bright hollies gay green leaves,

      The ivy round the leafless oak

      Clasps its full foliage close.

      So virtue diffident of strength

      Clings to religion’s firmer aid,

      And by religion’s aid upheld

      Endures calamity.

      Nor void of beauties now the spring,

      Whose waters hid from summer sun

      Have sooth'd the thirsty pilgrim's ear

      With more than melody.

      The green moss shines with icey glare,

      The long grass bends its spear-like form,

      And lovely is the silvery scene

      When faint the sunbeams smile.

      Reflection too may love the hour

      When Nature, hid in Winter's grave,

      No more expands the bursting bud

      Or bids the flowret bloom.

      For Nature soon in Spring's best charms

      Shall rise reviv'd from Winter's grave.

      Again expand the bursting bud,

      And bid the flowret bloom.

      A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson

      The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes

      Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed:

      Far

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