‘Let It Be Forgotten’ by Sara Teasdale

Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it…

11 years ago

‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ (Wilfred Owen)

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

11 years ago

‘The Dug-Out’ by Siegfried Sassoon

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen, cold, Exhausted face? It…

11 years ago

‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ by Anne Stevenson

The spirit is too blunt an instrument to have made this baby. Nothing so unskilful as human passions could have…

11 years ago

‘The Bright Field’ by R. S. Thomas

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and…

11 years ago

‘Napoleon’ by Walter de la Mare

‘What is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through…

11 years ago

‘Flood’ by Gillian Clarke

When all’s said, and done, if civilisation drowns the last colour to go will be gold – the light on a glass, the prow of a gondola, the name on a rosewood piano as silence engulfs it. And first to return to a waterlogged world, the rivers slipping out to sea, the cities steaming, will be gold, one dip from Bellini’s brush, feathers of angels, Cinquecente nativities, and all that follows. (more…)

11 years ago

‘Cezanne’s Ports’ by Allen Ginsberg

In the foreground we see time and life swept in a race toward the left hand side of the picture…

11 years ago

‘Education for Leisure’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Today I am going to kill something. Anything. I have had enough of being ignored and today I am going…

11 years ago

‘The Fly’ by William Blake

Little Fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art…

11 years ago