Fifty Shades of December

Once more the year begins. The first month of the Gregorian calendar. Cold winds howl, the landscape shivers, frost, snow, ice are the many blankets for the land. Daylight is thin; it arrives late and leaves early, ceding the hours to shadow and the ink of night. From the pens of our remarkable poets, including Shelley, Dickenson, Shakespeare, Whitman, Gilbran and a wealth of others, come sumptuous verse that describe our moods, feelings, travels and desires of the dawning year. 1 - Fifty Shades of December - An Introduction 2 - Ode Written on The First of December by Robert Southey 3 - A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 4 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 5 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 6 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit 7 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 8 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 9 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 10 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Ta