Best poems about — Storgy
January.
Five poems, ranked.
5 of the finest public-domain poems about january, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
January
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“In this short poem, Longfellow personifies January as Janus, the two-faced Roman god of doorways and new beginnings. January presents itself as a strong presenc…”
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02
January, 1810
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“This is a lighthearted letter penned by Elizabeth Shelley (Percy's sister) to their cousin Harriet Grove. It brims with gossip, cheeky comments on romance, and…”
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03
January, 1859
James Russell Lowell
“Lowell glances back a century and sees that nature continues to refresh itself flawlessly — the same seasons, the same birds, the same violets — without missing…”
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The complete index
- 04
To the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly
James Russell Lowell
A farmer from New England named Hosea Biglow strolls through the night near Concord and Bunker Hill, where it feels like the ghosts of the Revolutionary War are stirring all around…
- 05
March
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
March is a single-stanza poem where the month itself voices its frustration. Once the first month of the year, March is furious after a Roman ruler demoted it to third place, handi…
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