The Poetry of April

APRIL - the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar heralds Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For out poets including Owen, Stevenson, Van Dyke, Hardy and Shelley the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; April - An Introduction; An April Fool By Alfred Austin; Child's Talk In April By Christina Georgina Rossetti; An April Day By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Love Like An April Day Beguiles By James Bland Burgess; The Famous Speech Maker Of England Or Baron Lovel's Charge At The Assizes At Exon April 5th 1710 By Jonathan Swift; An April Love By Alfred Austin; April By Sara Teasdale; My April Lady By Henry Van Dyke; April 1844 By Henry Alford; Elegy In April and September By Wilfred Owen; Home Thoughts From Abroad By Robert Browning; Rome - Building A New Street in The Ancient Quarter, April 1887 By Thomas Hardy; Over The Lands In April By Robert Louis Stevenson; Stanzas April 1814 By Shelley; On A Nightingale In April By William Sharpe; Here By The Brimming April Streams By Phillip Savage; The Idlers Calendar - April - Trout Fishing By William Scawen Blunt; April By John Bannister Tabb; Sonnet To April By Henry Kirk White; A Petition To April, Written During Sickness By Susanna Blamire; It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear By William Wordsworth; The Soul Of April By Bliss William Carman; April Evening, France, April 1916 By John William Streets; Under The April Moon By Bliss William Carman; April By Algernon Charles Swinburne.