Great poems written in times past.

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Classics

Poetry

poems

Housman's wonderful ode to cherry blossom. Part II of 'A Shropshire Lad'.
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Loveliest Of Trees by A.E. Housman

Birdsong in English amidst the bleakness of winter.
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The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

Wordsworth's love of the natural world is showcased here.
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Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

For student study and teaching resources. Can also be used as unseen poems for those doing other exam boards.
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I Started Early, Took My Dog by Emily Dickinson

How thoughts of love can lift someone out of depressive thoughts.
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Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

Frost famous description of harvesting apples and the exhaustion of gathering them.
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After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost (HSC)

Shall i compare thee to a summers day

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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My melody to Shakespeare’s words
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_18 
Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.

In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem. He also notes the qualities of a summer day are subject to change and will eventually diminish. The speaker then states that the Fair Youth will live forever in the lines of the poem, as long as it can be read. There is an irony being expressed in this sonnet: it is not the actual young man who will be eternalized, but the description of him contained in the poem, and the poem contains scant or no description of the young man, but instead contains vivid and lasting descriptions of a summer day, which the young man is supposed to outlive…

"Ow'st" in line ten can carry two meanings, each common at the time: "ownest" and "owest". "Owe", in Shakespeare's day, was sometimes used as a synonym for "own". However, "owest" conveys the idea that beauty is something borrowed from nature—that it must be paid back. In this interpretation, "fair" can be a pun on "fare", or the fare required by nature for life's journey…

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/18/ 
Here’s a ‘translation’ into modern English:

Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? You are more lovely and more moderate: Harsh winds disturb the delicate buds of May, and summer doesn’t last long enough. Sometimes the sun is too hot, and its golden face is often dimmed by clouds. All beautiful things eventually become less beautiful, either by the experiences of life or by the passing of time. But your eternal beauty won’t fade, nor lose any of its quality. And you will never die, as you will live on in my enduring poetry. As long as there are people still alive to read poems this sonnet will live, and you will live in it.

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Interesting to see how the prose translation compares to the poem. 

The translation would never live ‘so long as men can breathe or eyes can see’. But the poem does.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? - W Shakespeare (in song)

A reading of this timeless love poem. Enjoy! :)

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The Good Morrow By John Donne

Inspired by the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray

Annie Smart

Elegy (Classical Glass and Annie Smart)

Thursday 11 June 2020. Day 85 of Pandemic Poems

Text of the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard

Illustration by Richard Bentley from the 1753 edition

269 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

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Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Ode To The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Anton Jarvis