JANUARY POEMS

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Birthday

(16th January 1949)

I thank whatever gods may be
For all the happiness that's mine;
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Robert Service

Robert Service
Months

January cold desolate;
February all dripping wet;
March wind ranges;
April changes;
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Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti
Advent

We have tested and tasted too much, lover-
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
But here in the Advent-darkened room
Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
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Patrick Kavanagh
A Drunkard Cannot Meet A Cork

1628

A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork
Without a Revery-
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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
For The Birthday Of Edgar Allan Poe

(January 19, 1909)

Poet of doom, dementia, and death,
Of beauty singing in a charnel house,
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Richard Le Gallienne
I Have A White Rose To Tend (verse Xxxix)

I have a white rose to tend
In July as in January;
I give it to the true friend
Who offers his frank hand to me.
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Jose Marti
Birthday

(16th January 1949)

I thank whatever gods may be
For all the happiness that's mine;
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Robert William Service
Unchained

The bird ain't as free as she thinks
Freedom is not just in the air
The prisoner is not enslaved as he thinks
Slavery is not just in a cell
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Apollos Alpha

Apollos Alpha
Brown's Descent, Or The Willy-nilly Slide

Brown lived at such a lofty farm
That everyone for miles could see
His lantern when he did his chores
In winter after half-past three.
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Robert Frost

Robert Frost
A Celebration

A middle-northern March, now as always-
gusts from the South broken against cold winds-
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide,
it moves-not into April-into a second March,
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William Carlos Williams
Fish Crier

I Know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a
voice like a north wind blowing over corn stubble
in January.
He dangles herring before prospective customers evincing
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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg
The Elder Brother.

Centrick, in London noise, and London follies,
Proud Covent Garden blooms, in smoky glory;
For chairmen, coffee-rooms, piazzas, dollies,
Cabbages, and comedians, fame'd in story!
.....

George Colman
To A Vain Lady

Ah! heedless girl! why thus disclose
What ne'er was meant for other ears:
Why thus destroy thine own repose
And dig the source of future tears?
.....

George Gordon Byron
October In New Zealand

O JUNE has her diamonds, her diamonds of sheen,
Meet for a queen-s neck, if Death had e-er a queen!
June has her blue days, jewels of delight,
Set in the ivory of Alp-land white,-
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Jessie Mackay
House

TWO Swede families live downstairs and an Irish policeman upstairs, and an old soldier, Uncle Joe.
Two Swede boys go upstairs and see Joe. His wife is dead, his only son is dead, and his two daughters in Missouri and Texas don't want him around.
The boys and Uncle Joe crack walnuts with a hammer on the bottom of a flatiron while the January wind howls and the zero air weaves laces on the window glass.
Joe tells the Swede boys all about Chickamauga and Chattanooga, how the Union soldiers crept in rain somewhere a dark night and ran forward and killed many Rebels, took flags, held a hill, and won a victory told about in the histories in school.
.....
Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg
Lines Written Beneath A Picture

Dear object of defeated care!
Though now of Love and thee bereft,
To reconcile me with despair,
Thing image and any tears are left.
.....

George Gordon Byron
January 2nd

How many have you broken up till now?
I know that yesterday you made a vow,
And most solemnly 'twas spoken;
But how many have you broken?
.....

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
On The Way

(Philadelphia, 1794)

Note.- The following imaginary dialogue between
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon
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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson
Aylmer's Field

Dust are our frames; and gilded dust, our pride
Looks only for a moment whole and sound;
Like that long-buried body of the king,
Found lying with his urns and ornaments,
.....
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Absence

My shadow --
I woke to a wind swirling the curtains light and dark
and the birds twittering on the roofs, I lay cold
in the early light in my room high over London.
.....

Edwin Morgan
Released-january, 1878

On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. The released men were received by their fellow-countrymen in London. 'They are well,' said the report, ' but they look prematurely old.'


THEY are free at last! They can face the sun;
.....

John Boyle O'reilly
The Candle

Time like a cloud
Has risen from the East
And whelmed the sky over
Even to the wide-arched West,
.....

John Freeman
The Skylark

'It is the skylark come.' For shame!
Robert-a-Cockney is thy name:
Robert-a-Field would surely know
That skylarks, bless them, never go!
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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
The Swallows

AH! swallows, is it so?
Did loving lingering summer, whose slow pace
Tarried among late blossoms, loth to go,
Gather the darkening cloud-wraps round her face
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Augusta Davies Webster
Welcome To The Chicago Commercial Club

January 14, 1880

CHICAGO sounds rough to the maker of verse;
One comfort we have--Cincinnati sounds worse;
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Address At The Opening Of The California Theatre, San Francisco, January 19, 1870

Brief words, when actions wait, are well:
The prompter's hand is on his bell;
The coming heroes, lovers, kings,
Are idly lounging at the wings;
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Bret Harte

Bret Harte
Ode

Written on the first of January, 1794


Come melancholy Moralizer-come!
.....
Robert Southey

Robert Southey
The Death Of The Queen

Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead,
And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled,
To sing and rejoice with saints above,
Where ah is joy, peace, and love.
.....

William Topaz Mcgonagall
Verses On Games

Here is a horse to tame
Here is a gun to handle
God knows you can enter the game
If you'll only pay for the same,
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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling
Primroses

I
Latest, earliest of the year,
Primroses that still were here,
Snugly nestling round the boles
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Alfred Austin
Oglethorpe

An Ode to be read on the laying of the foundation
stone of the new Oglethorpe University,
January, 1915, at Atlanta,
Georgia
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Madison Julius Cawein

Madison Julius Cawein
From "january"

Supper removed, the mother sits,
And tells her tales by starts and fits.
Not willing to lose time or toil,
She knits or sews, and talks the while
.....
John Clare

John Clare
A Year's Carols: 01 - January

Hail, January, that bearest here
On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year
That weeps and trembles to be born.
Hail, maid and mother, strong and bright,
.....
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne
One Third Of The Calendar

In January everything freezes.
We have two children. Both are she'ses.
This is our January rule:
One girl in bed, and one in school.
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Ogden Nash
January

WHILE yet the air is keen, and no bird sings,
Nor any vaguest thrills of heart declare
The presence of the springtime in the air,
Through the raw dawn the shepherd homeward brings
.....
Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit
January Morning: Suite 06

-and a semicircle of dirt-colored men
about a fire bursting from an old
ash can,

.....

William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 07

-and the worn,
blue car rails (like the sky!)
gleaming among the cobbles!

.....

William Carlos Williams
On My Wedding-day

Here's a happy new year! but with reason
I beg you'll permit me to say
Wish me many returns of the season,
But as few as you please of the dy.
.....

George Gordon Byron
January Morning: Suite 14

- and the flapping flags are at
half-mast for the dead admiral.


.....

William Carlos Williams
January Willow

Far-separate, a few
Leaves illumed with perished autumn
Space the boughs against the blue.

.....

Clark Ashton Smith
January Morning: Suite 02

Though the operation was postponed
I saw the tall probationers
in their tan uniforms
hurrying to breakfast!
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William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 05

- and a young horse with a green bed-quilt
on his withers shaking his head:
bared teeth and nozzle high in the air!

.....

William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 03

- and from basement entries
neatly coiffed, middle aged gentlemen
with orderly moustaches and
well-brushed coats
.....

William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 04

- and the sun, dipping into the avenues
streaking the tops of
the irregular red houselets,
and
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William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 12

Long yellow rushes bending
above the white snow patches;
purple and gold ribbon
of the distant wood:
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William Carlos Williams
On My Thirty-third Birthday, January 22, 1821

Through life's dull road, so dim and dirty,
I have dragg'd to three-and-thirty.
What have these years left to me?
Nothing--except thirty-three.
.....

George Gordon Byron
January Morning: Suite 11

Who knows the Palisades as I do
knows the river breaks east from them
above the city-but they continue south
- under the sky-to bear a crest of
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William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 15

All this -
was for you, old woman.
I wanted to write a poem
that you would understand.
.....

William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 13

Work hard all your young days
and they'll find you too, some morning
staring up under
your chiffonier at its warped
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William Carlos Williams
January Morning: Suite 01

I have discovered that most of
the beauties of travel are due to
the strange hours we keep to see them:

.....

William Carlos Williams