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Language: English

Bringing Them Home With the Saints - by Brian Johnstone

{ Poem }

Harder
to find in the soundscape is our man,
the bell of his horn sanctifying the notes
in remembrance, or joy that the damned
thing is over

My Heart Leaps Up - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

Winter-Time - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Late lies the wintry sun a-bed,
A frosty, fiery sleepy-head;
Blinks but an hour or two; and then,
A blood-red orange, sets again.

Èistibh Poster

{ Learning Resource }

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Èistibh – Teaching Notes

{ Learning Resource }

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from Don Juan - by George Gordon, Lord Byron

{ Poem }

It may seem a schoolboy’s whine,
And yet I seek not to be grand nor witty,
But I am half a Scot by birth, and bred
A whole one, and my heart flies to my head.

To the Moon - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth?

becoming still - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

becoming still still becoming

pausing here - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

pausing here to read this reading this to pause here

slow - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

          slow           down           long           enough           to           read           these           words

St Lucia: The Written World

{ Learning Resource }

A classroom resource using the poem Untitled no.54 by Derek Walcott. Activities in this resource are aimed at pupils in upper secondary
school (S4–S6).

Nigeria: The Written World

{ Learning Resource }

A classroom resource using the poem Raindrum by Nigerian poet Niyi Osundare. Activities in this resource are aimed at pupils in lower secondary school (S1–S3).

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