Fifty Shades of December

Once more the year begins. The first month of the Gregorian calendar. Cold winds howl, the landscape shivers, frost, snow, ice are the many blankets for the land. Daylight is thin, it arrives late and leaves early ceding the hours to shadow and the ink of night. 1 - Fifty Shades of December - An Introduction 2 - Ode Written on The First of December by Robert Southey 3 - A Calender Of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 4 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Year - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 5 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 6 - Before Winter by Edith Nesbit 7 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 8 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 9 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 10 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 11 - On the Death of Major Whitefoord, December 15th 1825 by Eliza Acton 12 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 13 - To the Memory of Mrs Lefroy Who Died December 16th, My Birthday by Jane Austen 14 - Sonnet 6 - Then Let Not Winter's Ragged Hand Deface by William Shakespeare 15 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 16 - It is Winter by Daniel Sheehan 17 - Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills by Percy Bysshe Shelley 18 - Gloomily the Clouds Are Sailing by Anne Bronte 19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 20 - Eden In Winter by Vachal Lindsay 21 - To A Lady Who Presented to the Author A Lock of Hair Braided with Her Own and Appointed a Night in December To Meet Him in the Garden by Lord Byron 22 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 23 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin 24 - To Flowers from Italy by Thomas Hardy 25 - Sicily. December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 26 - Lachin y Gair by Lord Byron 27 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 28 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 29 - December's Snow by Arthur Conan Doyle 30 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 31 - Winter by Robert Southey 32 - The Foolish Fir Tree by Henry Van Dyke 33 - In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 34 - December the 23rd 1879 by George MacDonald 35 - A Christmas Carol by Samual Taylor Coleridge 36 - Old Christmastide (An Extract) by Sir Walter Scott 37 - A Visit From St Nicholas ('Twas The Night Before Christmas) by Clement Moore 38 - The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Christopher Smart 39 - Christmas Fancies by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 40 - On the Morning of Christs Nativity by John Milton 41 - Minstrels. A Christmas Poem by William Wordsworth 42 - A Carol. I by Mildmay Fane, Earl of Westmorland 43 - God Rest by Daniel Sheehan 44 - Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 45 - A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling 46 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 47 - December the 27th 1879 by George MacDonald 48 - A New Years Eve in Wartime by Thomas Hardy 49 - At the Entering of the New Year by Thomas Hardy 50 - Ring Out Wild Bells. Christmas Poem by Alfred lord Tennyson 51 - Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns