Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.
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Category: Songs of Ourselves Volume 1
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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Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.
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First Love
John Clare gets maudlin when he falls in love with an unattainable woman.
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The Listeners
Walter De La Mere scares his children – and us – with this mysterious fireside fairytale.
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