poetry

A Fairy Song – Shakespeare

Who lives here in the Castlerea Desmene Fairy Village? A Fairy Song William Shakespeare Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush,…

3 years ago

John Cooper Clarke – Apart from the Revolution

https://johncooperclarke.com/poems/ APART FROM THE REVOLUTION Each drop of blood a rose shall be all sorrow shall be dust blown by…

3 years ago

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Adderbury

Church of St Mary the Virgin, East Adderbury. https://youtu.be/mN_vWfSgWe4 Church Going by Philip Larkin (1922-1985)Once I am sure there's nothing…

3 years ago

Iggy Pop – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

https://youtu.be/bSWQNcvB3qE Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage,…

4 years ago

Xanadu: Fragments

In Xanadu... ...did Kubla Khan A stately Pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to manDown…

5 years ago

For Uncle Rodney

Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore If I should die, think only this of me:That there’s some corner of a foreign fieldThat…

6 years ago

Burn’s Night

To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what…

7 years ago

Zen Pencils: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Please visit Zen Pencils https://zenpencils.com/comic/ozymandias/ https://youtu.be/T26J6a9CuSM  I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: "Two vast and trunkless legs…

7 years ago

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

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

INDOlink Poetry – Rabindranath Tagore Collection

Rabindranath Tagore, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 http://www.indolink.com/Poetry/tgorIndx.html The above link no longer works, so here's an alternative https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/rabindranath-tagore…

20 years ago

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

In memoriam for my dear Mother who died recently... Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from…

20 years ago

Hymn to Lucifer

Le génie du mal by Guillaume Geefs, St. Paul's Cathedral, Liège, Belgium Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act?Without…

20 years ago

The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML A way of showing the difficulties representing Chinese using the roman alphabet. There are so many homophones that a…

20 years ago

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