“O captain! My Captain!..” by Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is…

11 years ago

‘Spared’ by Wendy Cope

“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love… ” Emily Dickinson It wasn’t you, it wasn’t…

11 years ago

‘Dreams’ by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams…

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‘Echo’ by Christina Rossetti

Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft…

11 years ago

‘Don’t go far off’ by Pablo Neruda

Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it:…

11 years ago

‘I thought of you’ by Sara Teasdale

I thought of you and how you love this beauty, And walking up the long beach all alone I heard…

11 years ago

‘Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker

The skin cracks like a pod. There never is enough water. Imagine the drip of it, the small splash, echo…

11 years ago

‘My grandmother’s love letters’ by Hart Crane

There are no stars to-night But those of memory. Yet how much room for memory there is In the loose…

11 years ago

‘Bright Star’ by John Keats

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with…

11 years ago

‘Remembrance’ by Emily Bronte

Cold in the earth — and the deep snow piled above thee, Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave!…

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