‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot…

12 years ago

‘The Lovers’ by Jalalud’din Rumi

The Lovers will drink wine night and day. They will drink until they can tear away the veils of intellect…

12 years ago

‘Not waving but drowning’ by Stevie Smith

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And…

12 years ago

‘On the sea’ by John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell…

12 years ago

‘Sill I rise’ by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt…

12 years ago

‘Le Dormeur du Val’ by Arthur Rimbaud

C’est un trou de verdure où chante une rivière, Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons D’argent ; où le soleil,…

12 years ago

‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that…

12 years ago

‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare

“Is there anybody there?” said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the…

12 years ago

‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown…

12 years ago

‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats

Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express…

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