Articles about 'Poetry about the Seasons'
March 21st, 2013
A poem about March…
The Stormy Cold March Days
Ho! for the stormy cold March days, Aye! There is nothing like them. Loud let us shout and sing their praise March is so proud and free. Snowy, blowy, wheezy, breezy, ...
March 9th, 2013
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Old Winter By Thomas Noel
Old Winter sad and snowy clad,
Is making a doleful din;
But let him howl till he cracks his jowl,
We will not let him in.
Let him gnaw, forsooth, with his freezing tooth,
On our roof-tiles, till he...
February 9th, 2013
Snow is in the air! Here’s a poem called, "Snow in the Suburbs" by Thomas Hardy with an mp3 recording.
Enjoy!
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Snow in the Suburbs
Every branch big with it, Bent every twig with it; Every fork like a white web-foot; Every...
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December 10th, 2012
Here’s a poem about a wandering snowflake…
MP3 Recording of Whenever a Snowflake
Whenever A Snowflake Leaves the Sky
When e’er a snowflake leaves the sky It turns and turns, to say good-bye. Good-bye, dear clouds, so cool and gray. Then turns and hastens on its way....
December 10th, 2012
"Little Snowflake" is a poem about Christmas by Hannah More Kahaus (1745-1833). You can listen to an mp3 recording of it below and read along with the poem.
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Little Snowflake
Little snow-flake, soft and white, Drops down in the silent night ; ...
December 9th, 2012
Advent is a poem about Christmas by Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). Here you can listen to an mp3 of the original poem in German while reading along with the text. After the poem you’ll find an English translation.
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Advent
Es treibt der Wind im Winterwalde die Flockenherde wie ein...
August 8th, 2012
The poem "In August" was written by Babette Deutsch. Here you can listen to it while reading along with the poem.
MP3 Recording of In August
In August
HEAT urges secret odors from the grass. Blunting the edge of silence, crickets shrill. Wings veer: inane needles of light, and pass. ...
April 30th, 2012
The poem May Day by American poet Sara Teasdale (1884 – 1933) has lovely imagery. Though it seems to end on a melancholy note, you can think of it in light of appreciating the time on earth we have…
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May Day
A delicate fabric of bird song ...
April 25th, 2012
Here’s the poem Joys of Youth by English poet John Clare (1793 – 1864).
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Joys of Youth
How pleasing simplest recollections seem Now summer comes it warms me to look back In the sweet happiness of youths...
April 17th, 2012
Where the Bee Sucks is from Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. In the play, it’s sung by the fairy spirit Ariel. You can read this lovely song below and listen along to two different renditions of it – one recited, the other sung.
Where The Bee Sucks (Shakespeare)
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell...
April 14th, 2012
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The Dandelion by Mrs. E. P. Erskine
"Oh, dandelion, yellow as gold, What do you do all day?" "I just wait here in the long green grass Till the children come to play."
"Oh, dandelion, yellow as...
April 1st, 2012
A Bribe for Bunny By Marjorie Dillon
I made a nest my very best, To hold my eggs from Bunny;
I wish he’d hop right in and stop— Oh, wouldn’t that be funny?
Some lettuce fine on which to dine I left, in...
March 27th, 2012
The poem Loveliest of trees, the cherry now by A. E. Housman (1859–1936) was written in 1896.
To understand the poem, remember that at that time people referred to the number 20 as "score". Threescore meant 60. In the 2nd verse, when the author wrote, "of my threescore years and ten", he meant he’s expecting...
March 22nd, 2012
Here’s the poem called Spring by Dante Gabriel Rossetti with an MP3 recording.
MP3 Recording of Spring by Rossetti
Spring
Soft-littered is the new-year’s lambing fold, And in the hollowed haystack at its side The shepherd lies o’ night now, wakeful-eyed ...
March 21st, 2012
Here’s the poem Early Spring by Fay Inchfawn with an mp3 recording…
MP3 Recording of Early Spring
Early Spring
Quick through the gates of Fairyland
The South Wind forced his way. ‘Twas his to make the Earth forget Her grief of yesterday. "’Tis mine," cried he, "to bring her joy!"...
January 20th, 2012
Here’s the poem "Windy Nights" by Robert Louis Stevenson with a recording and illustrations…
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Windy Nights By Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man...
January 6th, 2012
Here’s a Chinese poem about early winter by Meng Haoran 孟浩然, a Chinese poet who lived from 689 or 691 to 740.
First you’ll find the simplified Chinese text, followed by an English translation. Then you can listen to a recording of the poem in Mandarin and follow along with the Pinyin (pronunciation). After that...
January 5th, 2012
Here’s the Dutch poem Winterstilte (Winter Silence) by Guido Gezelle who lived from 1830 to 1899. You can listen to the poem in the mp3 recording below and follow along with the Dutch text and then read a loose English translation…
MP3 Recording of Winterstilte
Winterstilte (Dutch)
Een witte spree ...
January 3rd, 2012
Here’s a pretty little poem called January’s Garden by A.E.A., with a recording by me.
MP3 Recording of January’s Garden
January’s Garden
All silver-white and silver-clear
Are January’s bowers,
And there bloom sparkling sprays of ice,
And snowflake flowers.
October 21st, 2011
Here’s the French poem Papillons roux (Russet Butterflies) by Louis Codet (1876-1914). It’s about two little butterflies in Autumn.
Below you’ll find the French poem with a recording followed by an English translation.
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Papillons roux
Deux petits papillons roux tourbillonnent, tourbillonnent Deux petits...
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