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re: Agree! The myth of Hyacinth isnīt very helpful either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinth_(mythology). Blunts Giacinta is very ambiguous. Maybe he just made her up that way ?!.
Enjoyed the "The Poet's Calendar..." A correspondence with the astrological signs.
Cheating a bit on letter "K". "K" however in title or the second word:
"Be kind to animals, my child:Don't make the gentle ringworm wild.". "Kindness to Animals" by Arthur James Marshall Smith
https://www.poemine.com/Arthur-James...O-ANIMALS.html
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Agree... the myth muddies the waters even more.
Cute poem for children to have better regard for other beings.
"Lift up thy torch, O Year, and let us see" - Madison Julius Cawein; The New Year... https://www.poemine.com/Madison-Juli...-New-Year.html
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The new year. Enjoyed the poem, specially the play with opposing terms.
"My heart was full of softening showers". "My Heart was Full" by Stevie Smith
https://allpoetry.com/My-Heart-Was-Full
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Short and sweet by Stevie :)
"Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!" - John Keats; Sonnet VI: To G. A. W.... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...-w-62743933635
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Infatuated sonnet by Keats.
"Oh, give me a home where the buffalo"."The Western Home" by Brewster Higley
https://allpoetry.com/The-Western-Home
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Very familiar first stanza... and now I've read the rest of the poem... enjoyed :)
"Poor the pleasure" - Christina Georgina Rossetti; Memento Mori... https://www.poetrycat.com/christina-...i/memento-mori
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Stern poem( remember that you are a mortal)!
Author with surname starting with "Q":
"CLOSE now thine eyes and rest secure;"."A Good-night" by Francis Quarles
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/quarles1.html#2
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A good night indeed... Enjoyed :)
"Regal the earth seems with diamonds today," - Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass; The Sleet... https://allpoetry.com/The-Sleet
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The Sleet-Loved the beautiful images!
"Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes"."Sancta Maria" by Edgar Allan Poe
https://allpoetry.com/Sancta-Maria
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Enjoyed Poe's devotional poem :)
"The shadows lay along Broadway," - Nathaniel Parker Willis; Unseen Spirits... https://allpoetry.com/Unseen-Spirits
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"Unseen Spirits"- Victorian morals.
"Uncle, whose inventive brains"."Uncle" by Harry Graham
https://www.poemine.com/Harry-Graham/Uncle.html
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Lol tragic poem of the inventive and advantaged... enjoyed :)
"View not this Spire by Measure giv'n" - Matthew Prior; Engraven on a COLUMN In the Church of Halstead in Essex, The spire of which, burnt down by Lightning, was rebuilt at the Expense of Mr. Samuel Fiske, 1717.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....18-w1070.shtml
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"Engraven on a column..."Enjoyed this sober poem.
"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high"."Where the Mind Is Without Fear" by Rabindranath Tagore
https://allpoetry.com/Where-The-Mind-Is-Without-Fear
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"... let my country awake" :) Task done? Otherwise enjoyed :)
"xenophobia" - David Alexander Walker; All ******* Up... https://hellopoetry.com/poem/1586903/all-trumped-up/
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Alas, no! Worried!:(
"Xenophobia", to the point! Enjoyed!
"Ye have sung me your songs, ye have chanted your rimes".John McCrae, "The Song of the Derelict"
https://www.poeticous.com/poets/john...f-the-derelict
