poetry

Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee

Tonight the wind gnaws With teeth of glass, The jackdaw shivers In caged branches of iron, The stars have talons.…

7 years ago

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939)

WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And…

11 years ago

Turf Cutting

  My grandfather cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner's bog. Once I carried him…

11 years ago

Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned…

13 years ago

To Autumn

Ode to Autumn   "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun Conspiring with him how…

13 years ago

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William, 1872-1919

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2393419/Yorkshire-Dialect-Poems-16731915-and-traditional-poems-by-Moorman-Frederic-William-18721919   Bite Bigger by John Hartley, (1839 - 1915) As I hurried through t' taan to my wark,-I were…

15 years ago

Sisters of Mercy – Dominion

https://youtu.be/L6ehkhTn48Q The Sisters of Mercy - Dominion, lifting lyrics from Percy Shelley "On the lone and levelSand stretch far away"…

16 years ago

A Shropshire Lad

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HouShro.html Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad. 1887 "To skies that knit their heartstrings right, To fields that bred them…

17 years ago

Norfolk by Sir John Betjemen (Sorrel aka Sheep Sorrel)

http://www.florahealth.com/Flora/Home/canada/healthinformation/encyclopedias/sheepsorrel.asp Norfolk Sheep sorrel, Rumex paucifolius by Sir John Betjemen How did the Devil come? When first attack?These Norfolk lanes…

18 years ago

John Cooper Clarke – Never See a Nipple

http://www.cyberspike.com/clarke/nipple.html John Cooper Clarke - Never See a Nipple see also https://johncooperclarke.com

18 years ago

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