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Written in March (1798)

  By Litrasaurus Quest March 21, 2023 - 13:14 March 21, 2023 Blog, LitraQuest
Wordsworth Written in March Lake District

The cock is crowing,The stream is flowing,The small birds twitter,The lake doth glitter,The green field sleeps in the sun;The oldest and youngestAre at work with the strongest;The cattle are grazing,Their… Continue reading

An October Garden – Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 6, 2022 - 17:35 October 6, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
October Garden Poem Christina Rossetti Kew Gardens

The poem that Litrasaurus has chosen to feature this month is “An October Garden” by Christina Rossetti In my Autumn garden I was fainTo mourn among my scattered roses;Alas for… Continue reading

July – A Short Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 9, 2022 - 16:06 July 9, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
A Short Poem For July

The Violet and the Bee “And pray, who are you?”Said the Violet blueTo the Bee, with surprise,At his wonderful size,In her eyeglass of dew.“I, madam,” quoth he,“Am a publican Bee,Collecting… Continue reading

June – A Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 1, 2022 - 14:52 July 9, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
June Poem

“June” by Francis Duggan It’s beautiful the Summer month of JuneWhen all of God’s own wildflowers are in bloomAnd sun shines brightly most part of the dayAnd butterflies o’er lush… Continue reading

May and the Poets

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 2, 2022 - 15:24 May 2, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
May and the Poets

There is May in books forever; May will part from Spenser never; May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior, May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer; May’s in all the Italian books: She… Continue reading

An Ode To March

  By Litrasaurus Quest March 1, 2022 - 15:07 May 2, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
March: An Ode

by Algernon Charles Swinburne I Ere frost-flower and snow-blossom faded and fell, and the splendour of winter had passed out of sight, The ways of the woodlands were fairer and… Continue reading

He Knows No Winter – February Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 8, 2022 - 16:46 February 8, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
He knows no winter he who loves the soil

He knows no winter, he who loves the soil,For, stormy days, when he is free from toil,He plans his summer crops, selects his seedsFrom bright-paged catalogues for garden needs.When looking… Continue reading

January Poem – Stopping by …

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 13, 2022 - 15:01 January 13, 2022 Blog, LitraQuest
A statue of poet Robert Frost after a snowstorm in Plymouth, New Hampshire CC [Rights Reserved] Emflazie

Whose woods these are I think I know.   His house is in the village though;   He will not see me stopping here   To watch his woods fill up with snow.    My little horse… Continue reading

December Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 1, 2021 - 10:27 December 5, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest

“I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. ‘We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,’ I heard a… Continue reading

Written in November

  By Litrasaurus Quest November 3, 2021 - 11:33 November 3, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
Written in November by John Clare

Autumn, I love thy parting look to viewIn cold November’s day, so bleak and bare,When, thy life’s dwindled thread worn nearly thro’,With ling’ring, pott’ring pace, and head bleach’d bare,Thou, like… Continue reading

October Trees

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 6, 2021 - 16:19 October 6, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
October Trees Siegfried Sassoon

Litrasaurus’ featured poem for October this year is this poignant verse by the great First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon October Trees How innocent were these Trees, that inMist-green May,… Continue reading

September – Summer Lapsed Away

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 11, 2021 - 12:25 September 11, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
September Summer Lapsed Away

As imperceptibly as GriefThe Summer lapsed awayToo imperceptible, at lastTo seem like Perfidy A Quietness distilledAs Twilight long begunOr Nature spending with herselfSequestered Afternoon The Dusk drew earlier inThe Morning… Continue reading

August – Fairest Month

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 1, 2021 - 11:57 September 11, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
August Fairest Month

Fairest of months! Ripe Summer’s Queen!The hey-day of the year,With robes that gleam with sunny sheenSweet August doth appear.With rosy fruit her skirts are drest,Flowers her glory swell,And birthday wishes… Continue reading

Poem – Evening in July

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 3, 2021 - 18:55 July 3, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
Bohuslänskt Lotten Rönquist-Skärgårdslandskap med spejande barn hus och uppdragen eka

A Boat Beneath a Summer Skyby Lewis Carroll A boat beneath a sunny sky,Lingering onward dreamilyIn an evening of July — Children three that nestle near,Eager eye and willing ear,Pleased… Continue reading

Poem for June

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 3, 2021 - 15:59 June 3, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
Bumble Bee June Poem William Henry Davies

A week ago I had a fireTo warm my feet, my hands and face;Cold winds, that never make a friend,Crept in and out of every place. Today the fields are… Continue reading

Poem for Maytime

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 4, 2021 - 13:44 May 4, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest

Winter is many months of the yearBut now at last Maytime is here;And birds sing from a leafy screenIn the trees and hedgerow freshly green;And the wood-anemone is out in… Continue reading

April Poem – Spring Song

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 17, 2021 - 13:38 April 25, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
April Poem Spring Song

Hark, I hear a robin calling!List, the wind is from the south!And the orchard-bloom is fallingSweet as kisses on the mouth. In the dreamy vale of beechesFair and faint is… Continue reading

March Poem – Spring Cleaning

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 17, 2021 - 12:47 April 17, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
March Poem Spring Cleaning

March bustles in on windy feetAnd sweeps my doorstep and my street.She washes and cleans with pounding rains,Scrubbing the earth of winter stains.She shakes the grime from carpet greenTill naught… Continue reading

February Twilight – Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 5, 2021 - 17:39 February 5, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
February Twilight Poem

I stood beside a hillSmooth with new-laid snow,A single star looked outFrom the cold evening glow.There was not other creatureThat saw what I could see,I stood and watched the evening… Continue reading

January Poem – Happy New Year

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 1, 2021 - 18:15 January 1, 2021 Blog, LitraQuest
Happy New Year

“A happy new year” it will be – if it’s NEW New visions of all that is noble and true,New powers for service, new knowledge of God,New zeal for the… Continue reading

December Poem – The Cold Earth Slept Below

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 4, 2020 - 21:51 December 4, 2020 Blog

The cold earth slept below,Above the cold sky shone;And all around,With a chilling sound,From caves of ice and fields of snow,The breath of night like death did flowBeneath the sinking… Continue reading

“The Hermit” James Beattie

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 25, 2020 - 19:38 October 25, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Augustinian Hermit in a Landscape

At the close of day, when the hamlet is still,And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,And nought but the nightingale’s song… Continue reading

October Leaves

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 2, 2020 - 13:06 October 2, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
October Autumn Leaves

October’s the monthWhen the smallest breezeGives us a showerOf autumn leaves.Bonfires and pumpkins,Leaves sailing down –October is redAnd golden and brown. October leaves are lovelyThey rustle when I runSometimes I… Continue reading

A Seasonal Poem for Autumn

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 3, 2020 - 16:18 September 3, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;Conspiring with him how to load and bless   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;To bend with apples the… Continue reading

August Poem – Summertime

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 1, 2020 - 17:24 August 1, 2020 Blog
Summertime August Poem by William Allingham

 O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells.  Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm… Continue reading

Sleepy July

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 4, 2020 - 17:45 July 4, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Sweet July - bumble bee purple flowers

Across the open common landshines glowing purple floral bloomsThe bumble bee can hardly stand,as flowers’ scent is rising fumes And lies there in the summer shadea resting deer quite joyfulyfor… Continue reading

Beautiful June

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 3, 2020 - 17:32 June 3, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest

It’s beautiful the Summer month of JuneWhen all of God’s own wildflowers are in bloomAnd sun shines brightly most part of the dayAnd butterflies o’er lush green meadows play. Light… Continue reading

May Books

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 1, 2020 - 15:20 May 1, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Queen Guinevre’s Maying by John Collier [1900]

THERE is May in books forever;May will part from Spenser never;May’s in Milton, May’s in Prior,May’s in Chaucer, Thomson, Dyer;May’s in all the Italian books:–She has old and modern nooks,Where… Continue reading

“April” by Hannah R. Hudson

  By Litrasaurus Quest April 12, 2020 - 16:50 April 12, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
La Belle Jardiniere – April Eugène Grasset

April has searched the winter landAnd found her petter flowers again;She kissed them to unfold her leaves,She coaxed them with her sun and rain,And filled the grass with green content,And… Continue reading

The North Wind Doth Blow !

  By Litrasaurus Quest March 1, 2020 - 14:31 March 2, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Figures crossing a heath with a brisk wind blowing - Jan van Goyen

March’s poem is “The North Wind Doth Blow” aka “The Robin” … not least because of the weather that we are having at the moment ! The north wind doth… Continue reading

February Poem – Snowdrops

  By Litrasaurus Quest February 9, 2020 - 13:10 February 9, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
February Poem Snowdrops

A small bird twitters on a leafless spray, Across the snow-waste breaks a gleam of gold: What token can I give my friend to-day But February blossoms, pure and cold?… Continue reading

January Poem – Jack Frost

  By Litrasaurus Quest January 8, 2020 - 19:59 January 8, 2020 Blog, LitraQuest
Jack Frost Window

“Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with… Continue reading

Poem for December

  By Litrasaurus Quest December 18, 2019 - 17:22 December 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Poem for December

It sifts from Leaden Sieves – It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road – It makes an even Face Of Mountain, and… Continue reading

Poem for November

  By Litrasaurus Quest November 2, 2019 - 16:34 December 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Poem For November

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown. And yet… Continue reading

October Gave A Party – Poem

  By Litrasaurus Quest October 20, 2019 - 19:27 October 20, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came – The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss… Continue reading

“September” John Updike

  By Litrasaurus Quest September 7, 2019 - 18:35 October 21, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

“The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive,… Continue reading

The Swing – a poem for Summer

  By Litrasaurus Quest August 7, 2019 - 14:42 August 7, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up… Continue reading

July Poem – Summer Sun

  By Litrasaurus Quest July 1, 2019 - 11:26 July 1, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
In the Garden by Robert Reid

Great is the sun, and wide he goesThrough empty heaven without repose;And in the blue and glowing daysMore thick than rain he showers his rays. Though closer still the blinds… Continue reading

June – Francis Duggan

  By Litrasaurus Quest June 5, 2019 - 09:01 June 5, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest

It’s beautiful the Summer month of June When all of God’s own wildflowers are in bloom And sun shines brightly most part of the day And butterflies o’er lush green… Continue reading

A May Poem by Milton

  By Litrasaurus Quest May 18, 2019 - 20:41 May 18, 2019 Blog, LitraQuest
Spring Cowslips

This month’s poem is “On May Morning” by John Milton NOW the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger,Comes dancing from the East, and leads with herThe Flowry May, who from her… Continue reading

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