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Sonnet 97 - How Like A Winter Has My Absence Been by William Shakespeare This sonnet does mention other seasons as it is full of contrasts but clearly starts and ends with winter which the poet feels is perpetual when away from his love.  One of Shakespeare’s treasured sonnets with its characteristic rich imagery and expressive and evocative choice of words.  Featured in - Renaissance Poets - Volume 2   Spellbound - Emily Bronte Set in the Yorkshire Moors, the same as her legendary novel Wuthering Heights and written at only 19 years old, this sparkling poem encapsulates the bleakness...

All Featured Here In - The Poetry Of Animals   1. The Tyger by William Blake This is probably the best known of Blake’s poems and has featured in many anthologies since its publication in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection.  It would be too simplistic to sum up the poem with the old cliché that appearances can be deceptive as it is more nuanced about how contrary life is so beauty can be evil. Featured in - Westminster Memorials Volume 1   2. The Owl & The Pussy Cat by Edward Lear Lear’s classic and undoubtably...