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personification

The Masque of Anarchy - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.

The Old Year - by John Clare

{ Poem }

The Old Year’s gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night

When Day Is Done - by Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Sorrow remembers us when day is done.
/ It sits in its old chair gently rocking
/ and singing tenderly in the evening.
/ It welcomes…

The Flyting o’ Life and Daith - by Hamish Henderson

{ Poem }

Quo life, the warld is mine.
/ The floo’ers and trees, they’re a’ my ain.
/ I am the day, and the sunshine
/ Quo life,…

Teddy - by Glenn Colquhoun

{ Poem }

for a child with leukaemia
/
/ Teddy was not well.
/ Teddy had been feeling sick.
/ Teddy had to go to hospital.
/ Teddy was told that…

A Man In Assynt (extract) - by Norman MacCaig

{ Poem }

Glaciers, grinding West, gouged out
/ these valleys, rasping the brown sandstone,
/ and left, on the hard rock below –
/ the ruffled…

Teebeutel/Tea bag - by Jan Wagner

{ Poem }

draped only in a / sackcloth mantle. the little / hermit in his cave.

The Silver City - by Marion Angus

{ Poem }

Yonder she sits beside the tranquil Dee,
/ Kindly yet cold, respectable and wise,
/ Sharp-tongued though civil, with wide-open eyes,
/ Dreaming of hills, yet…

The Cloud - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
/ From the seas and…

Moon - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

Last night, when the moon
slipped into my attic-room
as an oblong of light,
I sensed she’d come to commiserate.

Seeds in Flight - by Khaled Abdallah

{ Poem }

An ancient woman, who has lived all seasons,
/ wanders the earth gathering camomile.
/
/ Each flower in her apron is a star,
/ her apron…

Cyclone - by Nicolás Guillén

{ Poem }

A thoroughbred cyclone,
/ recently arrived in Cuba from the Bahama Islands.
/ It was raised in Bermuda,
/ but has relatives in Barbados.
/ It has been…

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