The Poetry of January

January - the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year. the cold and bleak landscape of winter nevertheless provides a rich background for our esteemed poets, such as Byron, Longfellow, Cowper, and Dickinson, to offer us their reflections and counterpoints. The tracks are: January - An introduction January 1 1828, by Nathaniel Parker Willis Written January the 1st, 1792, by Janet Little Written January 1st 1832, by Henry Alford Promises That Fail Their Makers Lips, by Daniel Sheehan The Old Year, by John Clare At the Entering of the New Year, by Thomas Hardy Written During an Aurora Borealis, January 7th 1831, by Henry Alford The Meeting, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Sonnet Occasioned... January 1616, by William Drummond January 1795, by Mary Darby Robinson A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779, by William Cowper The First Snowfall, by James Russell Lowell Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852, by Martin Farquhar Tupper On the Dis