The Poetry of January
A Month in Verse
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Narrated by:
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Richard Mitchley
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Ghizela Rowe
About this listen
January - the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year. the cold and bleak landscape of winter nevertheless provides a rich background for our esteemed poets, such as Byron, Longfellow, Cowper, and Dickinson, to offer us their reflections and counterpoints.
The tracks are:
- January - An introduction
- January 1 1828, by Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Written January the 1st, 1792, by Janet Little
- Written January 1st 1832, by Henry Alford
- Promises That Fail Their Makers Lips, by Daniel Sheehan
- The Old Year, by John Clare
- At the Entering of the New Year, by Thomas Hardy
- Written During an Aurora Borealis, January 7th 1831, by Henry Alford
- The Meeting, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A Sonnet Occasioned... January 1616, by William Drummond
- January 1795, by Mary Darby Robinson
- A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779, by William Cowper
- The First Snowfall, by James Russell Lowell
- Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852, by Martin Farquhar Tupper
- On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January 14th 1807, by Joel Barlow
- A Calendar of Sonnets - January, by Helen Hunt Jackson
- Eden in Winter, by Vachel Lindsay
- It Is Winter, by Daniel Sheehan
- Sonnet 59, by Henry Alford
- Snow Flakes, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Work Without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Snow Beneath Who's Chilly Softness, by Emily Dickinson
- GH on My Thirty-third Birthday, January 22nd 1821, by Lord Byron
- January Cold Desolate, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
- The Farm Woman's Winter, by Thomas Hardy
- The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson
- A Song for January 26th 1824, by Charles Thompson
- Ode on the Present Time, 27th January 1795, by Amelia Opie
- Winter - My Secret, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Month of January, by Hilaire Belloc
- Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong, by Henry David Thoreau
- January, by Alice Carey.
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- P. Donovan
- 15-01-18
An interesting selection
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