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transience

The Listeners - by Walter de la Mare

{ Poem }

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
/ Knocking on the moonlit door;
/ And his horse in…

Happiness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…

The Late Swallow - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
/ Late swallow, and fly away.
/ Here is no rest
/ For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
/ Your comrades all have…

For Refuge - by Pippa Little

{ Poem }

Use no names. Roads
/ have been whited out,
/ redacted.

John o’ Lorn - by Neil Munro

{ Poem }

My plaid is on my shoulder and my boat is on the shore,
/ And it’s all bye…

The Traveller Has Regrets - by G. S. Fraser

{ Poem }

The traveller has regrets
/ For the receding shore
/ That with its many nets
/ Has caught, not to restore,
/ The white lights…

A Cairn - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

As by barren trackway
/ on a mountain crest
/ with view of scree and corrie,
/ ridge and col,
/ a traveller might pause,
/ take bearings, cast
/ in…

The Three - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

In the depth of winter
/ In the dark of night
/ There was only one house,
/ Only one light.
/
/ I walked down the…

Blossom - by Kathleen Jamie

{ Poem }

There’s this life and no hereafter –
/ I’m sure of that
/ but still…

Logos - by JL Williams

{ Poem }

She walks on the charred ground, wings of smoke
/ from the bones of her home rising.
/
/ ‘Here was, there used to be,…

The Wild Swans at Coole - by William Butler Yeats

{ Poem }

The trees are in their autumn beauty,
/ The woodland paths are dry,
/ Under the October twilight the water …

The Song of Wandering Aengus - by William Butler Yeats

{ Poem }

I went out to the hazel wood, / Because a fire was in my head, / And cut and peeled…

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