Poem by Alfred Noyes
The Highwayman THE wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road… Read More »Poem by Alfred Noyes
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Poem by Michael Rosen
Chocolate Cake I love chocolate cake. And when I was a boy I loved it even more. Sometimes we used to have it for… Read More »Poem by Michael Rosen
Poem by William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Daffodils) I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once… Read More »Poem by William Wordsworth
BY JANUARY GILL O’NEIL
Sunday You are the start of the week or the end of it, and according to The Beatles you creep in like a nun. You’re… Read More »BY JANUARY GILL O’NEIL
BY WELDON KEES
For My Daughter Looking into my daughter’s eyes I read Beneath the innocence of morning flesh Concealed, hintings of death she does not heed. Coldest… Read More »BY WELDON KEES
BY ZBIGNIEW HERBERT
The Envoy of Mr. Cogito TRANSLATED BY BOGDANA CARPENTER Go where those others went to the dark boundary for the golden fleece of nothingness your… Read More »BY ZBIGNIEW HERBERT
Poem by William Blake
The Rhine Was Red. The Rhine was red with humane blood, The Danube roll’d a purple tide, On the Euphrates Satan stood And over Asia… Read More »Poem by William Blake
Poem by Roger McGough
Let Me Die A Youngman’s Death Let me die a young man’s death not a clean and inbetween the sheets holy water death not a… Read More »Poem by Roger McGough
Poem by Roald Dahl
Television The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or… Read More »Poem by Roald Dahl
Poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I… Read More »Poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye