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 Winter (6 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 ...
February (John Payne Poems)
HOW long, o Lord, how long the Winter's woes?Is it to purge the world of sin and stainThat in its ...
June (John Payne Poems)
THE empress of the year, the meadows' queen,Back from the East, with all her goodly train,Is come, to glorify the ...
False February (John Payne Poems)
NOT seldom, whilst the Winter yet is king,Whilst yet the meads are mute and boughs are bare,A stirring in the ...