The Poetry of April

April - the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds spring in earnest and, of course, April showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For our poets, including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy, and Shelley, the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. The tracks are: April - an introduction An April Fool, by Alfred Austin Child's Talk in April, by Christina Georgina Rossetti An April Day, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love Like an April Day Beguiles, by James Bland Burgess the Famous Speech Maker of England or Baron Lovel's Charge at the Assizes at Exon, April 5th 1710, by Jonathan Swift An April Love, by Alfred Austin April, by Sara Teasdale My April Lady, by Henry Van Dyke April 1844, by Henry Alford Elegy in April and September, by Wilfred Owen Home Thoughts from Abroad, by Robert Browning Rome - Building a New Street in the ancient Quarter, April 1887, by Thomas Hardy Over the Lands in April, by Robert Louis Stevenson Stanzas, April 1814, by Shelley