William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.
ReadTag: Songs of Ourselves Anthology
You Will Know When You Get There
Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
ReadFarmhand
Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.
ReadSonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.
ReadShe Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Who is the mysterious Lucy in this simple elegy by William Wordsworth?
ReadThe Kraken
Alfred Lord Tennyson conjures a spectacular and sympathetic vision of a mythical creature.
ReadAfternoon with Irish Cows
Unlock your imagination and help Billy Collins find his vanished herd.
ReadThose Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.
ReadThe Buck in the Snow
Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.
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