Fifty Shades of January

The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter: wind, storms, silence. Our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Hardy, Shakespeare, Rossetti, Nesbit, Burns and a wealth of others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of inky marvel. 1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction 2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc 3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey 4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford 5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti 6 - January 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 7 - Written January 1st, 1792 by Janet Little 8 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy 9 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy 10 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 11 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 12 - Wint