Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee O God.
Category: Poetry
What is the Purpose of Poetry?
Crossing the Bar – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
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Gerard Manley Hopkins – Heaven Haven
I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,
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My Old Sweet Etcetera – A Reading
For Eleanor.
This anti war poem, written by American poet EE Cummings and published in 1926, is such a perfect specimen of the genre.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats – a Reading
Sometimes sad and sometimes not, our stories and our poems, our Green Ladies and our Belles Dames are reflections of our desires and anxieties.
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A reading: Sonnet 18, Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A reading.
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Shakespeare: Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Reading
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If….by Rudyard Kipling
A reading of “If….” which I made for my YouTube channel.
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John Keats – Ode To Autumn – a Reading
I have already written a few words about Ode to Autumn but felt minded to record my own reading of it.
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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs….
Kipling’s poem “If” is profound and moving.
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Ozymandias, King of Kings
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings
