‘May’ by Christina Rossetti

I cannot tell you how it was, But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and sunny…

12 years ago

‘Ma Boheme’ by Arthur Rimbaud

Je m’en allais, les poings dans mes poches crevées ; Mon paletot aussi devenait idéal ; J’allais sous le ciel,…

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‘I died for beauty, but was scarce’ by Emily Dickinson

I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In…

12 years ago

‘For Jane: with all the love I had, which was not enough’ by Charles Bukowski

I pick up the skirt, I pick up the sparkling beads in black, this thing that moved once around flesh,…

12 years ago

‘Living space’ by Imtiaz Dharker

There are just not enough Straight lines. That Is the problem. Nothing is flat Or parallel. Beams Balance crookedly on…

12 years ago

‘The moon and the yew tree’ by Sylvia Plath

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary The trees of the mind are black. The light is…

12 years ago

‘Greater Love’ by Wilfred Owen

Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Kindness of wooed and wooer…

12 years ago

‘Her kind’ by Anne Sexton

I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my…

12 years ago

‘Apologia’ by Oscar Wilde

Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at…

12 years ago

‘The white birds’ by William Butler Yeats

I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame…

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