by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) As late I journey’d o’er the extensive plain Where native Otter sports his scanty stream, Musing in torpid woe a Sister’s pain, The glorious prospect woke me from the dream. At every step it widen’d to my sight – Wood, Meadow, verdant Hill, and weary Steep, Following in quick successionContinue reading “Life”
Author Archives: Robin
Freedom
by Christal Carpenter All I want is freedom Is that too much to ask All I want is freedom To forget everything in my past All I want is freedom To take away all the tears and pain All I want is freedom To never feel that way again All I want is freedom ToContinue reading “Freedom”
Remember
by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann’d:Continue reading “Remember”
Air And Angels
by John Donne (1572-1631) Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us oft, and worshipp’d be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing I did see, But since my soul, whose childContinue reading “Air And Angels”
Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry Came loud – and hark, again! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude, which suits Abstruser musings: save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. ‘TisContinue reading “Frost at Midnight”
Democracy
by Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) It’s coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It’s coming from the feel that it ain’t exactly real, or it’s real but it ain’t exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from theContinue reading “Democracy”
The Mother
by Robert William Service (1874-1958) Your children grow from you apart, Afar and still afar; And yet it should rejoice your heart To see how glad they are; In school and sport, in work and play, And last, in wedded bliss How others claim with joy to-day The lips you used to kiss. Your childrenContinue reading “The Mother”
My Religion
by Banjo Paterson (1865-1941) Let Romanists all at the Confessional kneel, Let the Jew with disgust turn from it, Let the mighty Crown Prelate in Church pander zeal, Let the Mussulman worship Mahomet. From all these I differ – truly wise is my plan, With my doctrine, perhaps, you’ll agree, To be upright and downrightContinue reading “My Religion”
Treason And Loyalty
by Amanda Madhavan The Traitor has a name for the Loyalist: ‘You traitor to a greater Cause’. The Loyalist replies: ‘I am content to be loyal to our kind.’
The Trouble With Snowmen
by Roger McGough (b. 1937) ‘The trouble with snowmen,’ Said my father one year ‘They are no sooner made Than they just disappear. I’ll build you a snowman And I’ll build it to last Add sand and cement And then have it cast. And so every winter,’ He went on to explain ‘You shall haveContinue reading “The Trouble With Snowmen”
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