‘Le Pont Mirabeau’ by Guillaume Apollinaire

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la…

10 years ago

‘The Scholars’ by W.B. Yeats

Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men, tossing…

11 years ago

‘A Desolation’ by Allen Ginsberg

Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done…

11 years ago

‘Morning Song’ by Sylvia Plath

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its…

11 years ago

‘Why Do I Love” You, Sir?’ by Emily Dickinson

“Why do I love” You, Sir? Because— The Wind does not require the Grass To answer—Wherefore when He pass She…

11 years ago

‘London’ by William Blake

I wandered through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, A mark in every face I meet,…

11 years ago

‘Their Lonely Betters’ by W.H. Auden

As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade To all the noises that my garden made, It seemed to…

11 years ago

‘Childhood’ by Frances Cornford

I used to think that grown-up people chose To have stiff backs and wrinkles round their nose, And veins like…

11 years ago

‘The More Loving One’ by W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But…

11 years ago

‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt…

11 years ago