February, A Month In Verse
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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a 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 February - the second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine's day. On this and other themes our poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Chatterton, Edith Nesbit, Daniel Sheehan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anne Bronte and others have much to say. 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 Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
Edith Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer of children’s literature. Born in Kennington, Nesbit was raised by her mother following the death of her father—a prominent chemist—when she was only four years old. Due to her sister Mary’s struggle with tuberculosis, the family travelled throughout England, France, Spain, and Germany for years. After Mary passed, Edith and her mother returned to England for good, eventually settling in London where, at eighteen, Edith met her future husband, a bank clerk named Hubert Bland. The two—who became prominent socialists and were founding members of the Fabian Society—had a famously difficult marriage, and both had numerous affairs. Nesbit began her career as a poet, eventually turning to children’s literature and publishing around forty novels, story collections, and picture books. A contemporary of such figures of Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame, Nesbit was notable as a writer who pioneered the children’s adventure story in fiction. Among her most popular works are The Railway Children (1906) and The Story of the Amulet (1906), the former of which was adapted into a 1970 film, and the latter of which served as a profound influence on C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. A friend and mentor to George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells, Nesbit’s work has inspired and entertained generations of children and adults, including such authors as J.K. Rowling, Noël Coward, and P.L. Travers.
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February, A Month In Verse - Edith Nesbit
February, 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 February - the second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine's day. On this and other themes our poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Chatterton, Edith Nesbit, Daniel Sheehan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anne Bronte and others have much to say. 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 Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
INDEX OF POEMS
AFTERNOON IN FEBRUARY by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LINES ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY, 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
HYMN WRITTEN SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11th, 1798 by Robert Anderson
FEBRUARY By Edith Nesbit
FEBRUARY 10th 1840 by Henry Alford
VERSES WRITTEN IN FEBRUARY 1824 by Joanna Baillie
FEBRUARY 3rd 1830 by Henry Alford
ON THE DEATH OF MRS BURNITE WHO DIED FEBRUARY 2nd, 1878 by David John Scott
FEBRUARY TWILIGHT by Sara Teasdale
FEBRUARY by Sara Teasdale
THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS by Christopher Marlowe
THE KISS by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
IN THE SAFETY OF YOUR MOUTH by Daniel Sheehan
HOW LIKE A WINTER HATH NY ABSENCE BEEN (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare
TO SAPPHO by Robert Herrick
I WHO ALL THE WINTER THROUGH by Robert Louis Stevenson
FOR THE