‘How it is’ by Maxine Kumin

Shall I say how it is in your clothes? A month after your death I wear your blue jacket. The…

11 years ago

‘The Tay Moses’ by Kathleen Jamie

What can I fashion for you but a woven creel of river- rashes, a golden oriole’s nest my gift wrought…

11 years ago

‘All things will die’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Under my eye; Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowing Over…

11 years ago

‘Nothing will die’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson

When will the stream be aweary of flowing Under my eye? When will the wind be aweary of blowing Over…

11 years ago

‘i carry your heart’ by E.E. Cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go…

11 years ago

‘A noiseless patient spider’ by Walt Whitman

A noiseless, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant,…

11 years ago

‘Sudden Light’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I have been here before, But when or how I cannot tell: I know the grass beyond the door; The…

11 years ago

‘Of all the souls that stand create’ by Emily Dickinson

Of all the souls that stand create I have elected one. When sense from spirit files away, And subterfuge is…

11 years ago

‘Chanson d’automne’ (‘Autumn Song’) by Paul Verlaine

Les sanglots longs Des violons De l’automne Blessent mon coeur D’une langueur Monotone. Tout suffocant Et blême, quand Sonne l’heure,…

11 years ago

‘The Applicant’ by Sylvia Plath

First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch, A…

11 years ago