TO WINTER William Blake (1757-1827) Two hundred years later the poet and visionary, William Blake, included in his “Poetical Sketches” a more powerful personification of the season: ‘O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with […]
Author: Peter Wood
January Poems Index
Title/From Begins Poet “Love’s Labours Lost” When icicles hang by the wall, William Shakespeare “Faerie Queen” Then came old January Edmund Spenser Poetical sketches “O Winter bar thine adamantine doors William Blake Snow The room was suddenly rich Louis MacNeice London Snow When men were all asleep the snow came flying Robert Bridges Snow in […]
Poetry Monthly
Poems for Every Month The website being built here will list poems for each month of the year, chosen by Alan Wood, my father.
January 1 William Shakespeare
POETRY MONTHLY : The following twelve sections introduce a range of poetry old and new, answering to the seasonal qualities of each of the twelve months, with brief explanatory links and comments. POETRY MONTHLY – JANUARY Poetry: for our purpose let us define it simply as “the expression of feeling in musical language” and listen […]