April- National Poetry Month

APRIL 29, 2015 BY EVIESTOOLEMPORIUM
April – National Poetry Month
Contributor post by Michelle of EviesToolEmporium

April is National Poetry Month. Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, National Poetry Month, held every April, is the largest literary celebration in the world with schools, publishers, libraries, booksellers, and poets celebrating poetry’s vital place in our culture.

Today members of the Christmas In July team share their favorite poems.

Nancy from VictorianRosePrints

“Do what you have to, to be happy in this life.”

Bridges of Madison County

VictorianRosePrints
VictorianRosePrints

Lin Collette from rhodyart

“Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”

“Easter 1916″ by William Butler Yeats

rhodyart
rhodyart

Emma-Louise from LSBJewellery

“For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;”

Andrew Marvell’s to his coy mistress

LSBJewellery
LSBJewellery

Kristen Sargent from KestrelCollection

“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”

The Tyger by William Blake.

KestrelCollection
KestrelCollection

Rachel Palmer from 910woolgathering

“Wi’ sma’ to sell, and less to buy,
Aboon distress, below envy,
O wha wad leave this humble state,
For a’ the pride of a’ the great?
Amid their flaring, idle toys,
Amid their cumbrous, dinsome joys,
Can they the peace and pleasure feel
Of Bessy at her spinning-wheel?”

Bess and Her Spinning Wheel
Robert Burns

910woolgathering
910woolgathering

Noel from MinkCouture

“Nevermore”

Quoth the Raven

MinkCouture
MinkCouture

Megha Silvano from byTheArtBug

“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

byTheArtBug
byTheArtBug

Karen from KarenLovesAntiques

“When you’re up against a trouble, Meet it squarely, face to face; Lift your chin and set your shoulders, Plant your feet and take a brace.”

“See It Through” by Edgar Albert Guest

KarenLovesAntiques
KarenLovesAntiques

Wendy Joy from wjoydesigns says:

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

-Invictus
BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

wjoydesigns
wjoydesigns

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