poems

DOWN THROUGH DARKNESS from kendrive ^Pro 14 days old

SLEEP Sleep, when a soul that her own clouds cover Wails that sorrow should always keep Watch, nor see in the gloom above her Sleep, Down, through ...

WITHOUT HER from kendrive ^Pro 26 days old

After the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti published a collection of sonnets entitled The House of Life, which included this poem describing ...

AFRAID OF LOVE from kendrive ^Pro 131 days old

[ ... ] the 17 poems that form Charlotte Mew's strikingly original first collection, "The Farmer's Bride". She gained the patronage of several literary ...

YOU MADE THEM ALL COME TRUE from kendrive ^Pro 190 days old

[ ... ] of poems on the subject "Who would fardels bear?", which will be the theme of my poetry group presentation next year. HOUSE OF DREAMS You ...

TURNING PAGES from kendrive ^Pro 369 days old

I am continuing with several poems by C.Day-Lewis, who was Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972 This one was written in the early 1940s when Day-Lewis, ...

I THINK I KNOW from kendrive ^Pro 407 days old

Trevor Hewett tells a story of a marriage. TED AND MARY’S WEDDING PHOTOGRAPH You can see, from the posed picture, their future, in black and white. This ...

THINKING OF CAMELOT from kendrive ^Pro 409 days old

I don't think Trevor Hewett is excessively morbid, but much of his poetry does focus on the demented, the elderly and the sick. However, he always ...

MAD,BAD, AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW from kendrive ^Pro 424 days old

[ ... ] send poems back to his London publisher in idle moments, asking only that their receipt be acknowledged. WHEN WE TWO PARTED When we two ...

MEET YOU THURSDAY NIGHT AT HALF-PAST TEN from kendrive ^Pro 449 days old

TWO MCNEILS He skips out lithe and tense into the light, Throws off his gown, and smiling, lifts his hands With a theatric gesture, opening fingers, Like ...

I AM DEVIATING from kendrive ^Pro 458 days old

I am putting Conrad Aiken aside for one day. When I was researching Jim Papoulis yesterday, I came across the following song. It was written by him ...