‘Il faut, voyez vous, nous pardonner les choses’ by Paul Verlaine

0Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses : De cette façon nous serons bien heureuses Et si notre vie a…

11 years ago

‘Mrs Midas’ by Carol Ann Duffy

It was late September. I’d just poured a glass of wine, begun to unwind, while the vegetables cooked. The kitchen…

12 years ago

‘If strangers meet’ by E.E. Cummings

If strangers meet life begins- not poor not rich (only aware) kind neither nor cruel (only complete) i not not…

12 years ago

‘That sanity be kept’ by Dylan Thomas

That sanity be kept I sit at open windows, Regard the sky, make unobtrusive comment on the moon, Sit at…

12 years ago

‘Mrs Darwin’ by Carol Ann Duffy

7 April 1852 Went to the Zoo. I said to Him— Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of…

12 years ago

‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ by T.S. Eliot

S’io credesse che mia risposta fosse A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Ma…

12 years ago

‘Consecrated’ by St. Catherine of Sienna

All has been consecrated. The creatures in the forest know this, The earth does, the seas do, the clouds know…

12 years ago

‘A child said, What is the grass?’ by Walt Whitman

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. .…

12 years ago

‘The Journey’ by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their…

12 years ago

‘If I could tell you’ by Wystan Hugh Auden

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I…

12 years ago