Thomas Gray’s beautiful “Ode on the Spring” looks to the insect world for lessons on life.
Tag Archives: Seasons
On Watching Spring Come In
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March Has Come in Like a Liobam
What do you have when March comes in as both a lion AND a lamb. Thanks to Margaret Atwood, we have liobams.
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August: The River Flames Like Brass
Reese writes one of the very best poems about August.
No Flowers, No Leaves, November
An antidote to feeling gloomy in November is to embrace the gloom by reading gloomy November poems. I offer several here.
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Eternally Damned after Reading a Book
In which I compare Austen’s Marianne and Willoughby to Dante’s Paulo and Francesca.
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Sumer Is i-Cumin In
Nothing welcomes in the summer as well as this medieval lyric.
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Diving into May Flowers
An Oliver poem and a Murdoch observation for the month of May.
Our Annual Autumnal Striptease
A Scott Bates poem about autumn’s annual striptease.
When the World Is Mud-Luscious
e. e. cummings ushers in spring with a joyous celebration.
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