‘As kingfishers catch fire’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string…

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‘Wordsworth’s Skates’ by Seamus Heaney

Star in the window. Slate scrape. Bird or branch? Or the whet and scud of steel on placid ice? Not…

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‘Avec le temps’ by Leo Ferre

Avec le temps… Avec le temps, va, tout s’en va On oublie le visage et l’on oublie la voix Le…

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‘To the evening star’ by William Blake

Thou fair-hair’d angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love;…

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‘Separation’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A sworded man whose trade is blood, In grief, in anger, and in fear, Thro’ jungle, swamp, and torrent flood,…

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“The Flea” by John Donne

Marke but this flea, and marke in this, How little that which thou deny’st me is; It suck’d me first,…

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“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed,…

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“The Whitsun Weddings” by Philip Larkin

That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull…

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“The Lesson“ of Maya Angelou

I keep on dying again. Veins collapse, opening like the Small fists of sleeping Children. Memory of old tombs, Rotting…

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“Phenomenal Woman” of Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when…

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