James Joyce suffers from terrible nightmares.
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Tag: Songs of Ourselves Anthology
Dover Beach
Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.
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After
There’s never enough time says Philip Bourke Marston in this powerful poem about loss and bereavement.
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Amends
Adrienne Rich’s mysterious poem suggests we all have something to make up for – but what?
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Song to the Men of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
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Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
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In Praise of Creation
Faith is stronger than doubt in this eulogy by Elizabeth Jennings.
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Ode on Melancholy
Go with John Keats on a quest to find Joy in the mystical realm of Lethe.
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