Lose yourself in Robert Browning’s twisted labyrinth.
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I Find No Peace
Sir Thomas Wyatt is trapped by his own conflicting desires.
ReadA Leave-Taking
Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?
ReadStanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrestles with depression in a poem that seems to anticipate his own destiny.
ReadThe Flower-Fed Buffaloes
Vachel Lindsay laments a vanished way of life.
ReadSong to the Men of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
ReadNot Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
ReadIn Praise of Creation
Faith is stronger than doubt in this eulogy by Elizabeth Jennings.
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