Bright is the Ring of Words - by
Bright is the ring of words
/ When the right man rings them,
/ Fair the fall of songs
/ …
Language: English
To S. R. Crockett - by
Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
/ Blows the wind on the…
Glasgow 5 March 1971 - by
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…
Interview with Carol Ann Duffy (The Telegraph 2011)
Carol Ann Duffy returns to the discussion of whether poetry is ‘difficult’ and talks about texting and tweeting as poetic forms.
Lord Ullin’s Daughter - by
A Chieftan to the Highlands bound,
/ Cries, ‘Boatman, do not tarry;
/ And I’ll give thee a silver pound
/ To row…
The City of Dreadful Night - by
an extract
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/ I
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/ The City is of Night; perchance of Death
/ But certainly of Night; for never there
/ Can come…
Let Us All Be Unhappy on Sunday - by
A Lyric for Saturday Night
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/ We zealots, made up of stiff clay,
/ The sour-looking children of sorrow,
/ While…
The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs - by
Come
/ Home.
/ …
The Burial-March of Dundee - by
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
/ …
Songs of Travel, X - by
I know not how it is with you –
/ I love the first and…
To His Coy Mistress - by
Had we but world enough, and time,
/ This coyness, Lady, were no crime
/ We would sit down and think which…
Parting - by
My life closed twice before its close;
/ It yet remains to see
/ If Immortality unveil
/ …