The year reaches its end with the Twelfth month. The landscape may be bleak, a sculpture of lines, monochrome dominates. The air carries the sounds of winter: wind, storms, silence.

Our classic poets flex their lexicons with verse that describes all manner of events, sights and sounds. Among their ranks are Hardy, Shakespeare, Rossetti, Nesbit, Burns and a wealth of others, who, with their thoughts and desires express the world in lines of inky marvel.

1 - Fifty Shades of January - An Introduction

2 - Month of January by Hilaire Belloc

3 - Ode Written on 1st of January by Robert Southey

4 - Written January 1st, 1832 by Henry Alford

5 - January Cold Desolate by Christina Georgina Rossetti

6 - January 1st, 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis

7 - Written January 1st, 1792 by Janet Little

8 - The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

9 - Birds at Winter Nightfall (Triolet) by Thomas Hardy

10 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson

11 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird

12 - Winter Dusk by Sara Teasdale

13 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell

14 - Winter Sunset by Katharine Tynan

15 - Sunset by Ann Radcliffe

16 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield

17 - Winter Nightfall by Robert Seymour Bridges

18 - A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale

19 - Written During an Aurora Borealis January 7th, 1831 by Henry Alford

20 - Spellbound by Emily Bronte

21 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith

22 - The Mirror For Magistrates - The Induction by Thomas Sackville

23 - Winter Stores By Charlotte Bronte

24 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin

25 - To the Snow Drop by Charlotte Smith

26 - Sonnet 2 - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare

27 - A Calender of Sonnets - January by Helen Hunt Jackson

28 - Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

29 - January 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson

30 - I Who All the Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson

31 - Winter by Khalil Gibran

32 - The White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire

33 - A Winter's Sad Retreat by Daniel Sheehan

34 - Sonnet 97 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been by William Shakespeare

35 - At Castle Wood by Emily Bronte

36 - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

37 - The Divine Lullaby by Eugene Field

38 - A Tale Founded on a Fact Which Happened in January 1779 by William Cowper

39 - To Winter By William Blake

40 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet

41 - A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at Newmarket in January 1616 by William Drummond

42 - A Shropshire Lad XVII - Twice a Week the Winter Through by A. E. Housman

43 - On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis, January the 14th 1807 by Joel Barlow

44 - The Battle of the Cowpens January 18th, 1781 by Thomas Dunn

45 - On My Thirty Third Birthday, January 22nd, 1821 by Lord Byron

46 - A Song For January 26th, 1824 by Charles Tompson

47 - Ode on the Present Time, 27th January, 1795 by Amelia Opie

48 - Arm the First Rifle Ballad, January 1852 by Martin Farquar Tupper

49 - January by Alice Carey

50 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

51 - As You Like It Act II Sc VII - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare