Penny's Top 100 of 2012 (51-60)

From Penny's Top 100: the 100 most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog during 2012:

51. The Anxious Dead, John McCrae
52. To Winter, Robert Southey
53. Now winter nights enlarge, Thomas Campion
54. The Death of the Old Year, Alfred Tennyson
55. Fall, Leaves, Fall, Emily Bronte

56. Fair Summer Droops, Thomas Nashe
57. December, Stuart Livingston
58. His Lady of the Sonnets V, Robert Norwood
59. An Evening in October, Sophia Almon Hensley
60. Christmas Eve, Edgar Guest

Penny's Top 100 of 2012 (61-70)

From Penny's Top 100: the 100 most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog during 2012:

61. Autumn Rain, D.H, Lawrence
62. Midsummer Night, Archibald Lampman
63. A Day in June, James Russell Lowell
64. Olympian Ode 14, Pindar
65. The Autumn Thistles, Charles G.D. Roberts

66. Daily News, George Dance
67. To an Athlete Dying Young, A.E. Housman
68. The Fall of the Leaf, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
69. In Fountain Court, Arthur Symons
70. May, Edward Thurlow

Penny's Top 100 of 2012 (71-80)

From Penny's Top 100: the 100 most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog during 2012:

71. To My Mother, Thomas Moore
72. Solitude Surrounded, AE Reiff
73. When Yon Full Moon, W.H. Davies
74. Among the Rocks, Robert Browning
75. The Blue Heron, Theodore Goodridge Roberts

76. The Modern Politician, Archibald Lampman
77. The Old Year, John Clare
78. The March of the Dead, Robert W. Service
79. The Garden, Sara Teasdale
80. Christmas Sonnet, E.A. Woodward

Penny's Top 100 of 2012 (81-90)

From Penny's Top 100: the 100 most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog during 2012:

81. A Christmas Carol, George Wither
82. The Winter Fields, Charles G.D. Roberts
83. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W.B. Yeats
84. I Speak Your Name, Sophie Jewett
85. Spring's Welcome, John Lyly

86. April, Helen Hunt Jackson
87. London, F.S. Flint
88. A Canadian Summer Evening, Rosanna Leprohon
89. Spleen, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
90. Heat, Archibald Lampman

Penny's Top 100 of 2012 (91-100)

From Penny's Top 100: the 100 most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog during 2012:

91. A Christmas-Cake, Helen Maria Williams
92. Like Rain it sounded till it curved, Emily Dickinson
93. The winter eve is clear and chill, Christopher Brennan
94. The sun that brief December day, John Greenleaf Whittier
95. The Year, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

96. Cherry-Ripe, Robert Herrick
97. A Winter's Tale, D.H. Lawrence
98. Drifting Away: A Fragment, Charles KIngsley
99. when i was young, David George
100. In Apple Time, Bliss Carman

A New Year's Gift / William Strode

A New Year's Gift

We are prevented; you whose Presence is
A Public New-year's gift, a Common bliss
To all that Love or Fear, give no man leave
To vie a Gift but first he shall receive;
Like as the Persian Sun with golden Eyes
First shines upon the Priest and Sacrifice.

I'll on howe'er: May this year happier prove
Than all the Golden Age when Virtue strove
With nothing but with Virtue; may it be
Such as the Dayes of Saturn's Infancy.
May every Tide and Season jointly fit
All your Intents and your Occasions hit:
May every Grain of Sand within your Glass
Number a fresh content before it pass.
And when success comes on, stand then each hour
Like Joshua's Day, & grow to three or four:
At last when this year rounds and wheels away,
Be still the next year like the old year's Day.

~~
William Strode (1600-1645)
from Poetical Works

(edited by Bertram Dobell), 1907

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

William Strode biography

Penny's Top 20 / December 2012

Penny's Top 20
The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in December  2012:

  1.  Penny (or Penny's Hat), George Dance
  2.  Esthétique du Mal, Wallace Stevens
  3.  Christmas, George Herbert
  4.  The Mahogany Tree, William Makepeace Thackeray 
  5.   Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
  6.  To Winter, Robert Southey
  7.  The Death of the Old Year, Alfred Tennyson
  8.  December, Stuart Livingston
  9.  Christmas Eve, Edgar Guest
10.  The Hawk, Raymond Knister


11.  Men Made Out of Words, Wallace Stevens
12.  Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens 
13.  A Christmas Carol, George Wither
14.  A Christmas-Cake, Helen Maria Williams
15.  Christmas Sonnet, E.A. Woodward
16.  The sun that brief December day, John Greenleaf Whittier
17.  The Reader, Wallace Stevens 
18.  December, Helen Hunt Jackson
19.  Afterglow, George Dance
20.  Christmas, Sophie Jewett

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