Charles Swinburne says he’ll do anything for love – but does he mean it?
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Tag: Songs of Ourselves Anthology
Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrestles with depression in a poem that seems to anticipate his own destiny.
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The Flower-Fed Buffaloes
Vachel Lindsay laments a vanished way of life.
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I Hear An Army…
James Joyce suffers from terrible nightmares.
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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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