Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - January

A small, perfect companion for the darkest month of the year. John Kendrick Bangs, the turn-of-century master of gentle wit and warm verse, offers readers a poem for each day of January in this 1920 collection. These are not grand or difficult poems. They are quiet companions: a few stanzas to mark the morning, to give shape to the灰色の日 (grey days), to notice something beautiful in the ordinary. Bangs writes about winter light, the comfort of firesides, the passing of time with a calendar turning, and those small moments of grace that make daily life bearable. There is humor here too, the kind that twinkles rather than shouts. This is a book to keep on a bedside table, to read one page per day, to let the rhythm of verse become part of your own daily ritual. For readers who have ever wanted a simpler, slower way to move through time.