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Language: English

Bright is the Ring of Words - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Bright is the ring of words
/ When the right man rings them,
/ Fair the fall of songs
/ …

To S. R. Crockett - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying,
/ Blows the wind on the…

Glasgow 5 March 1971 - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

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)

{ Learning Resource }

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 Thomas Campbell

{ Poem }

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 James Thomson (‘B.V.’)

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ I
/
/ 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 Charles Lord Neaves

{ Poem }

A Lyric for Saturday Night
/
/ We zealots, made up of stiff clay,
/ The sour-looking children of sorrow,
/ While…

The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs - by George MacDonald

{ Poem }

Come
/ Home.
/ …

The Burial-March of Dundee - by William Edmondstoune Aytoun

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/
/ II
/
/ On the heights of Killiecrankie
/ Yester-morn our army lay:
/ Slowly rose the mist in columns
/ …

Songs of Travel, X - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

I know not how it is with you –
/ I love the first and…

To His Coy Mistress - by Andrew Marvell

{ Poem }

Had we but world enough, and time,
/ This coyness, Lady, were no crime
/ We would sit down and think which…

Parting - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

My life closed twice before its close;
/ It yet remains to see
/ If Immortality unveil
/ …

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