Today’s Poem: March

Ella Wheeler Wilcox on the month of March as a street preacher

Abel Grimmer, Spring, 1607 (Wikidata)

Poems of Sentiment was the name Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) gave to her 1892 collection of verse — and just in the title itself one can hear what would cause a sneer in later generations. Sentimentality as a goal for art did not age well through the nineteenth century, and even as the steam-driven presses of the…