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The words of Solomon represent the wisdom of the ages, and their truth does not depend on whether you believe in God. This is ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 327,813
This is Auden being facetious about a serious subject.
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Added: 18 years ago
Views: 150,845
This is a poem about a deprived childhood but there's no self-pity, just bitterness. He understands that he's not alone in his ...
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 4,411
The poet was a staunch supporter of the King in England's Civil War. He wrote some of his best verse when in prison.
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 12,647
One explanation is that this actually happened: an old lady died suddenly. The poem is about the state of shock that follows a ...
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 59,664
Reminiscent of one of Shakespeare's ditties, this haunting evocation from my favourite old saurian.
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 5,906
From the Shit Creek Review: "Henry Quince has been an academic, jazz pianist, editor, copywriter, and voiceover man.
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 1,167
The poem was written in 1929 when Yeats was 63. He said, "When I began to grow old I could no longer spend all my time amid ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 6,661
A boy makes his first confession to a Roman Catholic priest.
From: SpokenVerse
Added: 18 years ago
Views: 2,250
He used to like to write inconsequential poems about things that excited him a little. And why not? Do you get what it's really ...
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 7,918
A reading of Dylan's poem. I did it from memory and swapped two lines but decided to leave it as it is.
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Added: 18 years ago
Views: 9,713
A reading of Kipling's popular poem of advice on how to be a man which should be taken with a pinch of salt. I recorded this poem ...
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Added: 18 years ago
Views: 456,957
Awareness of your own mortality is inversely proportional to how much life you think you have left. It eventually becomes an ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 2,560
The poem was written in 1912 by Ezra Pound, the Bob Dylan of his day, at the same time as T S Eliot's Portrait of a Lady (1911) ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 15,539
There's a video using this reading on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veoxcceo0Ro The poem was not written about ...
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 108,877
A poem from Les Fleurs du Mal, there are many translations of this sonnet. This one is my favourite, by Karl Shapiro. If you actually ...
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Added: 18 years ago
Views: 2,872
A cautionary tale from 1908 about the imprudence of slamming doors.
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Added: 18 years ago
Views: 6,586
Har-tru is a kind of tennis court surface made of American clay. Dr. Loewenstein has a Jewish name which is not uncommon for a ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 5,171
"There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover" sang Vera Lynn in WWII. But that wasn't likely because there are no bluebirds ...
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Added: 16 years ago
Views: 198,494
This poem was first published in 1838 in Knickerbocker Magazine. Knickerbockers were the short trousers than boys wore: hence ...
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Added: 17 years ago
Views: 246,357
