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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me…

7 years ago

‘Messy Room’ by Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp. His raincoat is there in the…

7 years ago

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings…

9 years ago

‘Autumn’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

The leaves are falling, falling as from far, As if far gardens in the skies were dying; They fall, and…

10 years ago

‘Le Pont Mirabeau’ by Guillaume Apollinaire

Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine Et nos amours Faut-il qu’il m’en souvienne La joie venait toujours après la…

10 years ago

‘Childhood’ by Frances Cornford

I used to think that grown-up people chose To have stiff backs and wrinkles round their nose, And veins like…

11 years ago

‘The Dug-Out’ by Siegfried Sassoon

Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled, And one arm bent across your sullen, cold, Exhausted face? It…

11 years ago

‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ by Anne Stevenson

The spirit is too blunt an instrument to have made this baby. Nothing so unskilful as human passions could have…

11 years ago

‘The Bright Field’ by R. S. Thomas

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and…

11 years ago

‘Flood’ by Gillian Clarke

When all’s said, and done, if civilisation drowns the last colour to go will be gold – the light on a glass, the prow of a gondola, the name on a rosewood piano as silence engulfs it. And first to return to a waterlogged world, the rivers slipping out to sea, the cities steaming, will be gold, one dip from Bellini’s brush, feathers of angels, Cinquecente nativities, and all that follows. (more…)

11 years ago