I - The Tragedy

She sits in the tawny vapour 
That the Thames-side lanes have uprolled, 
Behind whose webby fold-on-fold 
Like a waning taper 
The street-lamp glimmers cold.

A messenger's knock cracks smartly, 
Flashed news in her hand 
Of meaning it dazes to understand 
Though shaped so shortly: 
He—he has fallen—in the far South Land…

II - The Irony

'Tis the morrow; the fog hangs thicker, 
The postman nears and goes: 
A letter is brought whose lines disclose 
By the firelight flicker 
His hand, whom the worm now knows:

Fresh—firm—penned in highest feather— 
Page-full of his hoped return, 
And of home-planned jaunts of brake and burn 
In the summer weather, 
And of new love that they would learn.

EDUQAS Poetry Anthology

A Wife in London (EDUQAS)

Poems from the EDUQAS and AQA GCSE English Literature Poetry Anthologies, set to music and available to download. Hopefully, it will help you remember them more easily!
Adding more as I write/record them.

A Wife in London (EDUQAS)

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