Penny's Poetry Blog

A January Night            (1879) The rain smites more and more, The east wind snarls and sneezes; Through the joints of the quivering ...

Snow, Snow Snow, snow, get out of here; Come again some other year. I'd rather that the skies were clear. Snow, snow, get out of h...

Winter Thou hast thy beauties: sterner ones, I own,      Than those of thy precursors; yet to thee      Belong the charms of solemn maj...

The Year Has Changed Its Name from   The Earthly Paradise  (1870) The year has changed its name since that last tale; Yet nought the pris...

A Song to the New Year Hark! The Old Year is gone! And the young New Year is coming! Through minutes, and days, and unknown skies, My...

Chris Downer, New Year's Eve stroll, 2005. CC BY 2.0,  Wikimedia Commons . from Ianthe XXXI Mild is the parting year, and sweet   ...

T h e   P e n n y   B l o g 's featured poem for January 2026: The Winter Lakes , by William Wilfred Campbell [...] Under the sun and th...