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December : Rebecca Hey : : December Poems : : Months Poems : :

Decemberby Rebecca Hey As human life begins and ends with woe, 1So doth the year with darkness and with storm. 2Mute is each sound, and vanish’d each fair form 3That wont to cheer us; yet a sacred glow— 4A moral beauty,—to which Autumn’s show, 5Or Spring’s sweet blandishments, or 6 Summer’s bloom, Are but vainContinue reading “December : Rebecca Hey : : December Poems : : Months Poems : :”

Thou Gloomy December : Robert Burns : : December Poems : : Months Poems : :

Thou Gloomy December : : By Robert Burns : 1796 – 1859 : : Ayrshire / Scotland : : : : : : : : : : : Ance mair I hail thee thou Gloomy December.Ance mair I hail thee with sorrow and care.Sad was the parting thou made me remember.Parting wi’ Nancy o nairContinue reading “Thou Gloomy December : Robert Burns : : December Poems : : Months Poems : :”

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind: Samuel Taylor Coleridge : : December Poems : Months Poems : :

Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December windBY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECome, come thou bleak December wind,And blow the dry leaves from the tree!Flash, like a Love-thought, thro’ me, DeathAnd take a Life that wearies me “Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind” A December Poem By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772 – 1834 )Continue reading “Fragment 3: Come, come thou bleak December wind: Samuel Taylor Coleridge : : December Poems : Months Poems : :”

December : Joseph D. Herron : : December Poems : Months Poems : :

December by Joseph D. Herron Child of the grand old winter,December floateth by;And the ground without is bare and whiteAs the moon in the cloudless sky. The wind blows cold and dreary,Across the whitened plain;And we see the oaks with their branches bare,Through the frost on the window pane. But within where the yule-log’s burning,EachContinue reading “December : Joseph D. Herron : : December Poems : Months Poems : :”

At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 : Denise Levertov : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 BY DENISE LEVERTOVBrown gas-fog, whitebeneath the street lamps.Cut off on three sides, all space filledwith our bodies. Bodies that stumblein brown airlessness, whitenedin light, a mildew glare, that stumblehand in hand, blinded, retching.Wanting it, wantingto be here, the body believing it’sdying in its nausea, my headclear in itsContinue reading “At the Justice Department November 15, 1969 : Denise Levertov : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”

November for Beginners : Rita Dove : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

“November for Beginners ” : : Rita Dove : : Snow would be the easyway out—that softeningsky like a sigh of reliefat finally being allowedto yield. No dice.We stack twigs for burningin glistening patchesbut the rain won’t give. So we wait, breedingmood, making musicof decline. We sit downin the smell of the pastand rise inContinue reading “November for Beginners : Rita Dove : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”

Autumn (November) : Walter de la Mare : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

AUTUMN (November) : : By Walter de la Mare , Kent, England : : : : There is a wind where the rose was,Cold rain where sweet grass was,And clouds like sheepStream o’er the steepGrey skies where the lark was. Nought warm where your hand was,Nought gold where your hair was,But phantom, forlorn,Beneath the thorn,YourContinue reading “Autumn (November) : Walter de la Mare : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”

At Day-Close in November : Thomas Hardy : ( 1 ) : : Mark Wilde ( Tenor ) & Philip Sunderland ( Piano ) ( November 29 , 2008 ) : ( 2 ) from Winter Words Composed by Benjamin Britton : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

At day-close in NovemberBy Thomas Hardy : : : : The ten hours’ light is abating,And a late bird wings across,Where the pines, like waltzers waiting,Give their black heads a toss. 4Beech leaves, that yellow the noontime,Float past like specks in the eye;I set every tree in my June time,And now they obscure the sky.Continue reading “At Day-Close in November : Thomas Hardy : ( 1 ) : : Mark Wilde ( Tenor ) & Philip Sunderland ( Piano ) ( November 29 , 2008 ) : ( 2 ) from Winter Words Composed by Benjamin Britton : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”

November : Thomas Hood : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

November : : By Thomas Hood : London, England : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :. No sun – no moon! 1No morn – no noon – 2No dawn – no dusk –Continue reading “November : Thomas Hood : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”

To a Mouse : Robert Burns : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :

To a Mouse ( Original Scots ) Published dateNovember, 1785 : : : : BY ROBERT BURNSOn Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickerin brattle!I wad be laith to rin an’ chaseContinue reading “To a Mouse : Robert Burns : : November Poems : : Months Poems : :”