Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.
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Category: Songs of Ourselves Volume 2
The Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.
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Watching For Dolphins
David Constantine wonders if there isn’t something more to life than meets the eye.
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The Poplar-Field
William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.
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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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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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The Buck in the Snow
Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.
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London Snow
Put on your gloves and hat and come play in the snow with Robert Bridges.
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The Sea Eats the Land at Home
Kofi Awoonor summons his oral heritage in this mournful poetic lament.
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