Isobel Dixon shows us that older really does mean wiser as she reminisces ruefully about her childhood.
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
You Will Know When You Get There
Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
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Farmhand
Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.
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Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Who is the mysterious Lucy in this simple elegy by William Wordsworth?
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The Kraken
Alfred Lord Tennyson conjures a spectacular and sympathetic vision of a mythical creature.
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Afternoon with Irish Cows
Unlock your imagination and help Billy Collins find his vanished herd.
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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.
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The Buck in the Snow
Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.
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