December Poems Index

Title/From Begins Poet The Fairie Queene And after him came next the chill December Edmund Spenser Marmion Heap on more wood, the wind is chill Sir Walter Scott Morte D’Arthur So all day long the noise of battle rolled Alfred Lord Tennyson The Oxen Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. Thomas Hardy Christmas at […]

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November Poems Index

Title/From Begins Poet Song for St Cecelia’s Day From harmony, from heavenly harmony John Dryden Flight to Australia Orchestrate this theme, artificer-poet  Cecil Day Lewis For the Fallen With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children Laurence Binyon Futility Move him into the sun – Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for those […]

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July Poems Index

Title/From Begins Poet  The Faerie Queene Then came hot July, boiling like to fire  Edmund Spenser  The Lion  Strange spirit with inky hair,  W J Turner  Mowing  There was never a sound beside the wood but one,  Robert Frost  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,  Samuel Taylor […]

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May Poems Index

Title/From Begins Poet Song on a May Morning Now the bright morning star, Day’s harbinger, John Milton  L’Allegro  But come thou goddess fair and free, John Milton  The Fairie Queene  Then came fair May, the fairest maid on ground  Edmund Spenser  The Legend of Good Women  And as for me, though than I konne but […]

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March Poems Index

  Title/From Begins Poet Faerie Queene First sturdy March, with brows full sternly bent Edmund Spenser  Daffodils  I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth  Written in March  The cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, William Wordsworth  To My Sister  It is the first mild day of March William Wordsworth Lines Written in Early […]

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