Bright is the Ring of Words - by
Bright is the ring of words
/ When the right man rings them,
/ Fair the fall of songs
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Bright is the ring of words
/ When the right man rings them,
/ Fair the fall of songs
/ …
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
/ Blows the wind on the…
With a ragged diamond
/ of shattered plate-glass
/ a young man and his girl
/ are falling backwards into a shop-window.
/ The young man’s face
/ is bristling…
Carol Ann Duffy returns to the discussion of whether poetry is ‘difficult’ and talks about texting and tweeting as poetic forms.
A Chieftan to the Highlands bound,
/ Cries, ‘Boatman, do not tarry;
/ And I’ll give thee a silver pound
/ To row…
an extract
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/ The City is of Night; perchance of Death
/ But certainly of Night; for never there
/ Can come…
A Lyric for Saturday Night
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/ We zealots, made up of stiff clay,
/ The sour-looking children of sorrow,
/ While…
Come
/ Home.
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an extract
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/ II
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/ On the heights of Killiecrankie
/ Yester-morn our army lay:
/ Slowly rose the mist in columns
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I know not how it is with you –
/ I love the first and…
Had we but world enough, and time,
/ This coyness, Lady, were no crime
/ We would sit down and think which…
My life closed twice before its close;
/ It yet remains to see
/ If Immortality unveil
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