October (John Payne Poems)
OCTOBER, May of the descending days,Mid-Spring of Autumn, on the shortening stairOf the year's eld abiding still and fair,A pause ...
John Payne Poems on Spring (4 Poems)
December (John Payne Poems)
THE roofs are dreary with the drifted rimeAnd in the air a stillness as of deathTh'approach of some portentousness foresaith.December ...
March (John Payne Poems)
MARCH comes at last, the labouring lands to free.Rude blusterer, with thy cloud-compelling blast,The pining plains from cark of Winter ...
January (John Payne Poems)
THIS is the bitter birth-month of the year.The sun looms large against the leaden sky,Rayless and red, as 'twere a ...