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Summary

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

Duration: about 1 hour (01:24:12)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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