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    May, A Month In Verse
    May, A Month In Verse
    May, A Month In Verse
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    May, A Month In Verse

    By Helen Hunt Jackson, Thomas Moore and Eugene Field

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each. This volume of Poetry is all about May - the fifth and fertile month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and popular for May day and Workers Rights celebrations. For our poets including Milton, Longfellow, Hopkins, Tennyson, Lowell and Van Goethe much else is on their minds as Spring continues it re-working of the landscape and of course, it’s beautifully expressed. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005218
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      May, A Month In Verse - Helen Hunt Jackson

      May, A Month In Verse

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each.  

      This volume of Poetry is all about May - the fifth and fertile month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and popular for May day and Workers Rights celebrations. For our poets including Milton, Longfellow, Hopkins, Tennyson, Lowell  and Van Goethe much else is on their minds as Spring continues it re-working of the landscape and of course, it’s beautifully expressed.   Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      SONG ON MAY MORNING by John Milton

      IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      MAY MAGNIFACT by Gerald Manley Hopkins

      MAY by Sara Teasdale

      IN MAY by William Henry Davies

      MAY NIGHT by Sara Teasdale

      ODE COMPOSED ON A MAY MORNING by William Wordsworth

      MAY SONG by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      A CALENDAR OF SONNETS, MAY by Helen Hunt Jackson

      THE YOUNG MAY MOON by Thomas Moore

      OVER THE MAY HILL by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

      MAY 1917 by John Jay Thompson

      MAY 1918 by John Jay Chapman

      A LIGHT EXISTS IN EARLY SPRING by Emily Dickinson

      A SPRING POEM FROM BION by Eugene Field

      TO THE DAISY by William Wordsworth

      TO A PRIMROSE by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

      A NUPITAL VERSE TO MISSTRESS ELIZABETH LEE, NOW LADY TRACY by Robert Herrick

      SYMPATHY  by Emily Jane Bronte

      SNOW BENEATH WHO’S CHILLY SOFTNESS by Emily Dickinson

      WHERE GO THE BOATS by Robert Louis Stevenson

      ON THE SEA by John Keats

      SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN by Byron

      LATE SPRING by Henry van Dyke

      ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE by Walt Whitman

      THE OAK by Alfred Lord Tennyson

      IN THE GREEN AND GALLANT SPRING by Robert Louis Stevenson

      A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING by Emily Dickinson

      A PANG IS MORE CONAPICUOUS IN SPRING by Emily Dickinson

      BEFORE YOU THOUGHT OF SPRING by Emily Dickinson

      IN A SPRING GROVE by William Allingham

      THE SPRING by Thomas Carew

      SLOW SPRING by Katharine Tynan

      THE PROGRESS OF SPRING by Lord Alfred Tennyson

      ODE ON THE SPRING by Thomas Gray

      SPRING COMES ON THE WORLD by Emily Dickinson

      I CANNOT MEET THE SPRING UNMOVED by Emily Dickinson

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