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Category:
Death
Ted Hughes, “Rain”
14 Mar 2025
Seamus Heaney, 3 Poems from “Squarings”
12 Mar 2025
How Death Comes (a poem from 1250)
5 Mar 2025
A Love Poem that Still Stings After 700 Years
3 Mar 2025
An anonymous poem of incredible cynicism, from c. 1325
30 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “I stay too long by thee; I weary thee” (from Henry IV pt. 2)
16 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: King Lear Out in the Elements
15 Jan 2025
Shakespeare: “Are thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?”: 2 Speeches from “Titus Andronicus”
13 Jan 2025
Ben Jonson, from “The Triumph of Charis”
9 Jan 2025
John Donne, “Death be not proud”
8 Jan 2025
Henry King, “The Exequy”
6 Jan 2025
Henry Vaughan, “The Book”
25 Dec 2024
Mary Leapor, “Mira’s Will”
9 Dec 2024
Oliver Goldsmith, from “Retaliation”
29 Nov 2024
William Wordsworth, Three Sonnets on How to Live
15 Nov 2024
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “’Tis better to have loved and lost”: 3 poems from “In Memoriam”
6 Nov 2024
Christina Rossetti, “A Dirge”
28 Oct 2024
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Binsey Poplars”
25 Oct 2024
A. E. Housman, “I hoed and trenched and weeded”
24 Oct 2024
Edward Thomas, “Rain”
29 Sep 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Everyone Sang”
23 Sep 2024
Wilfred Owen, 2 War Poems
18 Sep 2024
Ted Hughes, “October Salmon”
7 Aug 2024
Frances Horovitz, “Rain – Birdoswald”
4 Aug 2024
Seamus Heaney, 2 Bog Poems
1 Aug 2024
Chidiock Tichborne, “My prime of youth is but a froste of cares”
1 Jul 2024
William Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage”
30 Jun 2024
Thomas Campion, “Never weather-beaten Saile”
27 Jun 2024
Ben Jonson, “On My First Sonne”
26 Jun 2024
Katharine, Lady Dyer, “My dearest dust could not thy hasty day”
23 Jun 2024
Henry King, “A Contemplation upon Flowers”
21 Jun 2024
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
26 May 2024
Percy Bysshe Shelley, from “Adonais”
12 May 2024
John Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
8 May 2024
Emily Brontë, “Remembrance”
1 May 2024
Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed”
22 Apr 2024
Edgar Lee Masters, “Minerva Jones”
8 Apr 2024
Robert Frost, “After Apple-Picking”
2 Apr 2024
Marsden Hartley, “As the Buck Lay Dead”
31 Mar 2024
Robinson Jeffers, “Inscription for a Gravestone”
16 Mar 2024
Siegfried Sassoon, “Attack”
13 Mar 2024
Alan Seeger, “Rendezvous”
7 Mar 2024
Kathleen Raine, “Two Invocations of Death”
12 Feb 2024
Norman MacCaig, “Aunt Julia”
30 Jan 2024
Charles Causley, “Eden Rock”
14 Jan 2024
Karen Gershon, “I Was Not There”
9 Jan 2024
Roy Fisher, “The Entertainment of War”
29 Dec 2023
Michael Longley, “The Butchers”
25 Dec 2023
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