Poetry Corner
(an occasional poem from my personal favourites)
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
by Thomas Campion
Now winter nights enlarge
The number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o’erflow with wine,
Let well-turned words amaze
With harmony divine.
Now yellow waxen lights
Shall wait on honey love
While youthful revels, masques, and courtly sights
Sleep’s leaden spells remove.
This time doth well dispense
With lovers’ long discourse;
Much speech hath some defense,
Though beauty no remorse.
All do not all things well;
Some measures comely tread,
Some knotted riddles tell,
Some poems smoothly read.
The summer hath his joys,
And winter his delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.
Previous:
The Listeners - Walter de la Mare
The Way Through the Woods - Rudyard Kipling
A Forsaken Garden - Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Rider at the Gate - John Masefield
Meeting at Night - Robert Browning
In Flanders Fields - John McCrae
The Isle - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 (Winter) - William Shakespeare
little tree - E.E. Cummings
The Shortest Day - Susan Cooper
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
The Elfin Artist - Alfred Noyes
Cargoes - John Masefield
The Splendour Falls - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Donkey - G. K. Chesterton
All in green went my love riding - E.E. Cummings
Arethusa - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The King's Breakfast - A.A. Milne
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
The Loom of Years - Alfred Noyes