Friday, June 13, 2008

April 07 - Favourite Poem

The Slave's Dream - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lie in the dark and listen - Noel Coward
Roads - Edward Thomas
Mower to the Glow-worms - Andrew Marvell
Prophecy - Elinor Wylie
The Dream Song - John Berryman
For John Berryman - Robert Lowell
In Memoriam Easter 1915 - Edward Thomas
The Carpenter's Son - A E Housman

March 07 - Emotions

Drunk as Drink - Pablo Neruda
Groping - R S Thomas
Field of Hands - Tom Gunn
Sonnet 129 - William Shakespeare
Untitled - Emily Dickinson
We are Seven - William Wordsworth
Mowing - Robert Frost
The Wildman's Life - Anon.
The Perfect Life - Donald Hall
Song - Aubrey de Vere
Hope - Emily Dickinson
Bad Woman - Anon.
Self-pity - D H Lawrence
I didn't want you anyway (song lyric) - Hear'Say

January 07 - The Sea

Pibroch - Ted Hughes
The Seafarer - Anon.
Sir Patrick Speus - Anon.
Silence - Anne Rowe
Tempest - Beverley Maiden
The Old Ships - James Elroy Flecker
Crossing the Bar - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Destroyers in the Arctic - Alan Ross
The Song of the Wandering Aengus - W B Yeats
The Sea Question - Elizabeth Smither

December 06 - Favourite Poem

Child - Sylvia Plath
The Rolling English Road - G K Chesterton
Prize Winning Poem - Fleur Adcock
Remembrance - Sir Thomas Wyatt
A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barratt Browning
The Ice Cart - Wilfred Gibson
Solitude - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

November 06 - Spring

Verses from the Song of Solomon - King James's Bible
To the Tune of Annie Laurie - John Betjeman
Spring - T Nash
Spring Poem (flower shape) - J T Mori
4pm Spring Day - Greek poet (1936)
Snowdrop - Ted Hughes
Spring Song - John Dressel
Song of Songs
Loveliest of Trees - A E Housman
Between Meanings - Blooming
West Wind - John Masefield
Where to look - Sophie Hannah

October 06 - Favourite Poem

Autumn Poem - A E Housman
Dolls - Frederic Prokosch
Cargoes - John Masefield
Hope is a thing with feathers - Emily Dickinson