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Book SynopsisNotes from a Shipwreck, the third collection of poetry by Jessica Mookherjee, is a richly detailed and illuminating voyage of dislocation and longing. By turns evocative, unsettling, and full of ‘small acts of magic’, Mookherjee simultaneously finds the past, present, and future in the tempestuous, lyrical tides that flow through her poems.Here, seafaring lore and shanties interweave with wreckage and survival, drawn by strong currents of history – where migration, colonialism, pandemics and climate change shape the course we are on. The sea is a territory of grief and transformation, alluring and dangerous, where safe harbours and landfall are not always certain. Mookherjee’s enchanting, salt-sharp poetry encompasses the many journeys embarked on – whether seeking refuge, escape, or into exile – and consider not only the deep blue sea and its myriad mythologies, but to understand ‘what makes a land and person,’ – the keen human instinct to seek belonging.

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Book SynopsisCan you feel homesick and at home at the same time? Ever felt lost for words but full of things to say? Meet Andrea Davidson. In Eggenwise, Andrea explores moving to a different country, learning a new language, growing up and falling in love through poems that notice the remarkable in the everyday: a salted sprig of parsley, thundering raindrops on windowpanes, and the buzzzZZZzzz of a pesky pet fly. Through warm and conversational verse, Eggenwise invites you to step into the author's new home in Belgium, to roll your tongue around new words, savour their sound and share your own story through poetry... Fully illustrated throughout by Amy Louise Evans.

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Book SynopsisClive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this, the last book he completed before his death, the much-loved poet, broadcaster and author offers a selection of his favourite poems and a personal commentary on each.In the last months of his life, his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read, Clive James explored the treasure-house of his mind: the poems he knew best, so good that he didn't just remember them, he found them impossible to forget. The Fire of Joy is the record of this final journey of recollection and celebration.Enthralled by poetry all his life, James knew hundreds of poems by heart. In offering this selection of his favourites, a succession of poems from the sixteenth century to the present, his aim is to inspire you to discover and to learn, and perhaps even to speak poetry aloud.In his highly personal anthology, James offers a commentary on each of the eighty or so poems: sometimes a historical or critical note on the poem or its author, sometimes a technical point about the poem's construction from someone who was himself a poet, sometimes a personal anecdote about the role the poem played in his own life.Whether you're familiar with a poem or not – whether you're familiar with poetry in general or not – these chatty, unpretentious, often tender mini-essays convey the joy of James's enthusiasm and the benefit of his knowledge. His urgent wish was to share with a new generation what he himself had loved. This is a book to be read cover to cover or dipped into: either way it generously opens up a world for our delight.'Clive James's joyous farewell . . . from Thomas Wyatt to Carol Ann Duffy' – Guardian, Best Poetry of 2020Clive James (1939–2019) was a broadcaster, critic, poet, memoirist and novelist. His acclaimed poetry includes the collection Sentenced to Life and a translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, both Sunday Times bestsellers.Trade ReviewA treasure trove of poetic pleasure * The Times *The Fire of Joy is a proper pleasure. Fun and fight-picking, wise and persuasive. James loves a layman and, by the end, the layman certainly loves James . . . “It’s a dipper,” said my husband, reading over my shoulder. If I wasn’t on review duty, that’s the way I’d read it: dipping in at random, at bedtime, a poem a night. -- Laura Freeman * The Times *The Fire of Joy is a set of personal, quintessentially Jamesian commentaries on 80 of his favourite poems. * Guardian *A must for anthology lovers . . . The late, great critic and poet doesn't so much look forward as back; these are old favourites (Byron, Wordsworth, Masefield, Owen) from a lifetime’s reading, with personal notes on each one. I found it moving as well as a joy. -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *A wonderful anthology of 80 or so poems to memorise and read aloud, selected by the late critic and humorist Clive James. Enjoy the poems and his witty, opinionated mini-essays about his choices. * The Times Best Books of 2020 So Far… *Clive James’s joyous farewell . . . from Thomas Wyatt to Carol Ann Duffy, this valedictory volume features 80 poems he learned and loved, each accompanied by an essay to persuade us of their brilliance. -- Rishi Dastidar * Guardian, Best Poetry of 2020 *Clive James was so prolific that he’s still publishing books a year after his death . . . [These] are poems to “murmur under your breath at the bus stop, declaim aloud in the bath, roar from the rooftops”. -- James Marriott * The Times, Best Literary Non-fiction Books of the Year 2020 *A book to lighten the darkness . . . What links them all [the selected poems] are Clive James’ typically witty, sometimes abrasive and always passionate comments. It’s a book to dip into and ponder in this bleak midwinter. -- Piers Plowright * Tablet *Extraordinarily cogent . . . I have read many old men’s books over the years, and even the best writers often lose their flavour . . . But this book shows no diminution whatever of James’s talents, and it’s fueled by his obvious love of the form. -- Marcus Berkmann * Spectator *[This book] is full of boisterous life . . . His farewell is funny, intellectually sharp and a faithful companion for this age of turmoil and uncertainty . . . [it] rings and rhymes with passion and learning from a big brain who found room in his soul for poetry and in his heart for the contentment it can bring in good times and the solace it carries in bad times. -- Hugh MacDonald * Herald *The context of [this book's] composition is inescapable and each choice seems more moving in light of James’ impending demise . . . The Fire of Joy is a generous and genial valediction from one of Australia’s most famous wits. -- James Antoniou * Sydney Morning Herald *A deeply affecting book that blends autobiography with literary criticism, and is filled with James’s trademark breezy erudition and wit . . . It is indeed a joy to read, and savour. -- Troy Bramston * Weekend Australian *

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Book SynopsisSo Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne is a testament to the love that inspired the passion and creativity of one of the greatest English Romantic poets. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jane Campion, Oscar-winning director of the film Bright Star.John Keats died aged just twenty-five, leaving behind some of the most exquisite and moving verse and love letters ever written, inspired by his great love for his neighbour, Fanny Brawne. Although they knew each other for just a few short years and spent a great deal of that time apart - separated by Keats''s worsening illness, which forced a move abroad - Keats wrote again and again about and to his love, right until his very last poem, called simply ''To Fanny''. She, in turn, would wear the ring he had given her until her death. So Bright and Delicate contains the love poems and correspondence composed by Keats in the heat of his passion, and is

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Book SynopsisThe She Book is a collection of 107 poems and prose written for you. Because this is your year to live the life of your dreams, to heal, to witness, to be the one who queens. Once a silent star in the sky, lost, alone and unnoticed, she began to dream her life awake. Crafting together the power of words and womanhood, writer Tanya Markul has written a completely unique poetry collection fit for the phenomenal readers of today. In Tanya's words, "May we raise the bar for how we live our lives. May we ridiculously increase the amount of peace, play, creativity, beauty, love, and joy in everything we do. May we all sip from the wisdom of our suffering. And awaken with the courage to share our stories that can heal our inner and outer worlds."

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Book SynopsisSeventy lighthearted poems, selected for both popularity and literary quality, cover a wide range of subjects: books, words, imagination, the beauty of the natural world, travel, adventure, play, and, of course, love and friendship. Features an incredible array of poets, from Lewis Carroll and Ernest Lawrence Thayer to Shel Silverstein and Ogden Nash.

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Book SynopsisWhether writing of longing or seduction, of passion, adultery, or simple, everyday acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy perfectly captures the truth of each experience. Love Poems contains some of her most popular poems and, always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.Trade ReviewMysterious yet accessible; both truthful and beautiful; this selection is a paean to the power of love and of language’s ability to capture it. * Sunday Telegraph *Carol Ann Duffy is a poet who covers the stormy waterfront of desire, devotion and despair . . . from distant yearning to wild new passion through absence, boredom and infidelity, to break-ups, grief and solitude . . . As always, she manages the rare feat of building on traditions, forebears, allusions while stirring and shaking the emotions with muscular, unpretentious force. * Independent *

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Book SynopsisThe poems in Winter Trees were written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. They reveal the poet at the height of her creative powers, exhibiting the startling imagery and dramatic play for which she became known. Published posthumously in 1971, this valuable collection finds its place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent.Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring, the same feel of bits of frightened, vibrant, indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close, experienced horror and icy, sardonic control.' New StatesmanA book that anyone seriously interested in poetry now must have . . . Sylvia Plath's immense gift is evident throughout.' Guardian

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Book SynopsisPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICEThe Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald''s first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing.''The poetry of Alice Oswald arrives like a zephyr . . . a fresh and exciting first collection.'' Kathleen Jamie, Times Literary Supplement''an inspired debut of lightly-worn wisdom and verbal panache.'' John Fuller''Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive.'' The Times

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Catherine Phillips's excellent edition of the poems...will be the standard reading text for many years to come. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisThe title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with ''the growth of a poet''s mind''. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet''s voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.''Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.'' John Carey, Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisThis is the first selection of the great Romantic ''peasant poet'' John Clare to make available the full range of his accomplishment - as the chronicler of nature and childhood, the champion of folkways in the face of enclosure and oppression, the love poet, the political satirist and solitary visionary, confined in his maturity to lunatic asylums.''Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn''t grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you''ve arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.'' John Ashbery''It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.'' Seamus HeaneyTrade Review'Clare grabs hold of you - no, he doesn't grab hold of you, he is already there, talking to you before you've arrived on the scene, telling you about himself, about the things that are closest and dearest to him, and it would no more occur to him to do otherwise than it would occur to Whitman to stop singing you his song of himself.' John Ashbery; 'It is what Lawrence calls the poetry of the living present.' Seamus Heaney

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Book Synopsis*WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2018**A Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry 2017**A Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year 2018*‘[Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy’ The New Yorker Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a ground-breaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality – the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood – and an HIV-positive diagnosis. ‘Some of us are killed / in pieces,’ Smith writes, ‘some of us all at once.’ Don’t Call Us Dead is an astonishing and ambitious collection, one that confronts, praises, and rebukes an America where every day is too often a funeral and not often enough a miracle.Trade ReviewThis book is poetry as fierce fire. There is such intelligence and fervor in these poems about black men and their imperiled bodies, gay men and their impassioned bodies, what it means to be HIV positive, and so much more. Every poem impressed me, and the level of craft here is impeccable -- Roxane GayTremendously moving, an exalting and longed-for acknowledgement of historical pain ... Smith’s ability to look death squarely in the eye and seize from it language that is fertile with myth, beauty and intellect is astonishing -- Sandeep Parmar * The Guardian *A powerful and moving read. Smith pays tribute to the young black men America has lost to police shootings, racism and injustice, and writes disarmingly about life and sex with HIV, all in a restless verse -- Maria Crawford * Financial Times, **Books of the Year** *Haunting … This material is necessarily bleak, but Smith’s mercurial invention means it’s never merely grim … The visionary 23-page opener, “summer, somewhere” […] is something truly remarkable; a song from a sunlit afterlife, an “unpopular heaven” for black boys killed young, all delivered in taut couplets …Memorable, moving and imbued with moral purpose. I read and re-read this collection (particularly its opening poem) over several weeks… “summer, somewhere” is, by any measure, a brilliant poem -- Tristram Fane Saunders * The Telegraph, Poetry book of the month *[Danez Smith’s] poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy… they also know the magic trick of making writing on the page operate like the most ecstatic speech. And they are, in their cadences and management of lines, deeply literary. I hear Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit priest who jury-rigged his verse to express personal turmoil, and Hart Crane, whose gentleness was expressed in an American idiom full of thunderclap, and Allen Ginsberg, who loved and learned from them both. The addition of Smith’s star turns a random cluster of points into a constellation, the way new work of this calibre always does… In this moving, unsettling work, the question is not simply one of craft. It’s about how the body and its authority can be manifested in writing, with only the spindly trace of letters to stand in for it -- Dan Chiasson * The New Yorker *Danez Smith is angry, erotic, politicized, innovative, classical, a formalist, an activist, and blends all of this without seeming to strain... This will be one of the year's essential books -- Craig Morgan Teicher * NPR, 2017 Poetry Preview *Danez Smith's is a voice we need now more than ever as living, feeling, complex, and conflicted beings. These poems of love extend beyond the erotic into the struggle for unity—not despite the realities of race but precisely because of what race has caused us to make of and do to one another. Don't Call Us Dead gives me a dose of hope at a time when such a thing feels hard to come by. This is a mighty work, and a tremendous offering -- Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Life on Mars[An] achingly gorgeous poetry collection by the brilliant Danez Smith ... There is a hope here, pleas and prayers; these poems pierce and they burn, they work as incantations, they lift you up, but refuse to settle you back down. They are miraculous, sublime; if you do one thing for yourself this summer, let it be to read this book, and linger over each and every word * Nylon *What is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency. Don’t Call Us Dead is an historical commentary, a scientific document, a personal narrative, and a formal poetics. Smith uses every tool of craft at a poet’s disposal to deliver powerful, urgent, deliberate, crucial poems. Don’t miss this book * The Rumpus *Elegy meets celebration of the black male body on every page . . . Smith can’t help but be breathtaking in style and substance -- Porochista Khakpour * Virginia Quarterly Review *Where the stakes of living are high, Danez Smith puts their body right on the front line—‘i survived yesterday,’ they write, ‘spent it ducking bullets.’ In an America that conspires against black, brown, queer, and trans bodies, Danez writes poems of insistence and resistance; they anticipate a better world for all of us ‘where everything is sanctuary & nothing is a gun.’ -- D. A. PowellSmith transcends elegy in this intimate, humorous, and biting collection in which he writes of desire, mortality, white supremacy, and more -- Top 10 Poetry for Fall 2017 * Publishers Weekly *Danez Smith is an original – that rare blend between raw blinding light, an instinct for the well aright line, the courage to walk into his own love and pain armed only with the fragile hope of words, and a fire so unique it’s all his own. In Don’t Call Us Dead he demands we stand only in the truth of our own fear and build a love that’s so redemptive and real. If you have ever lost faith, if you want to believe in life, then you must read this book – it will humble and uplift you, leave you understanding that in the face of it all, there is only awe -- Chris AbaniPart indelible elegy, part glorious love song to ‘those brown folks who make / up the nation of my heart,’ Smith’s powerhouse collection is lush with luminous imagery, slick rhythms, and shrewd nods to Lucille Clifton, Beyoncé, and Diana Ross. Incandescent, indispensable, and, yes, nothing short of a miracle -- starred review * Booklist *The content as well as the writing is transcendent -- starred review * Library Journal *

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Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: ‘the land of heroes’. Here you’ll find the cultural essence of a young country but an old land, the stories, songs and poems that recount the mythical adventures of humankind. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a mysterious talisman that brings great happiness to its possessor and over which great battles will be fought.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HORATIO CLARE

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Book SynopsisCombining the collections Monster Poems, Morbus and Fashions, Nora Gomringer’s trilogy offers a modern anthropology. Gomringer shines a light on the all-too-human, plays with the superficial and loves the invisible. Accompanied by Reimar Limmer’s illustrations, these poems unpick ideas around the monstrous, the inscribed and gendered body and the face we present to the people around us. Packed with pop culture references and always casting an eye back to where we came from, The Trilogy of Surfaces and Invisibilities is a call for a radical humanism.Trade Review“Annie Rutherford’s translations of Gomringer’s poems are constantly inventive, lithe and impressive.” Sasha Dugdale

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Book SynopsisA captivating collection of enduring verse by one of the Victorian era's most beloved poetsRossetti is unique among Victorian poets for the sheer range of her subject matter and the variety of her verse form. This collection brings together fantasy poems, such as Goblin Market, and terrifyingly vivid verses for children, love lyrics and sonnets, and the vast body of her devotional poetry. Rossetti's poems weave connections between love and death, triumph and loss, heavenly joys and earthly pleasures. The directness and clarity of her lyrics still have the power to startle us with their truth and beauty.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductiTable of ContentsText by R. W. Crump with an Introduction and Notes by Betty S. FlowersAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTable of DatesFurther ReadingGoblin Market and Other Poems (1862)Goblin MarketIn the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857Dream-LandAt HomeA TriadLove from the NorthWinter RainCousin KateNoble SistersSpringThe Lambs of Grasmere, 1860A BirthdayRememberAfter DeathAn EndMy DreamSong ("Oh roses for the flush of youth")The Hour and the GhostA Summer WishAn Apple-GatheringSong ("Two doves upon the selfsame branch")Maude ClareEchoWinter: My SecretAnother SpringA Peal of BellsFata Morgana"No, Thank You, John"May ("I cannot tell you how it was")A Pause of ThoughtTwilight CalmWife to HusbandThree SeasonsMirageShut OutSound SleepSong ("She sat and sang alway")Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")Dead Before DeathBitter for SweetSister MaudeRestThe First Spring DayThe Convent ThresholdUp-Hill[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]"The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge""A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break"A Better ResurrectionAdvent ("This Advent moon shines cold and clear")The Three EnemiesOne CertaintyChristian and Jew/A DialogueSweet DeathSymbols"Consider the Lilies of the Field" ("Flowers preach to us if we will hear")The WorldA TestimonySleep at SeaFrom House to HomeOld and New Year DittiesAmenThe Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866)The Prince's ProgressMaiden-SongJessie CameronSpring QuietThe Poor GhostA PortraitDream-LoveTwiceSongs in a CornfieldA Year's WindfallsThe Queen of HeartsOne DayA Bird's-Eye ViewLight LoveOn the WingA Ring PosyBeauty Is VainMaggie a LadyWhat Would I Give?The BourneSummer ("Winter is cold-hearted")Autumn ("I dwell alone—I dwell alone, alone")The Ghost's PetitionMemoryA Royal PrincessShall I Forget?Vanity of Vanities ("Ah woe is me for pleasure that is vain")L. E. L.Life and DeathBird or Beast?EveGrown and FlownA Farm WalkSomewhere or OtherA ChillChild's Talk in AprilGone for Ever"The Iniquity of the Fathers Upon the Children"[DEVOTIONAL PIECES]Despised and RejectedLong BarrenIf OnlyDost Thou Not Care?Weary in Well-DoingMartyrs' SongAfter This the JudgmentGood Friday ("Am I a stone and not a sheep")The Lowest PlacePoems Added in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1875)By the SeaFrom Sunset to Star RiseDays of VanityOnce for All/(Margaret)Enrica, 1865Autumn VioletsA Dirge ("Why were you born when the snow was falling")"They Desire a Better Country"A Green CornfieldA Bride SongConfluentsThe Lowest RoomDead HopeA Daughter of EveSong ("Oh what comes over the sea")Venus's Looking-GlassLove Lies BleedingBird RapturesMy FriendTwilight NightA Bird SongA Smile and a SighAmor MundiThe German-French Campaign/1870-1871: 1. "Thy Brother's Blood Crieth"; 2. "Today for Me"A Christmas Carol ("In the bleak mid-winter")ConsiderBy the Waters of Babylon/B.C. 570ParadiseMother Country"I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Hills" ("I am pale with sick desire")"The Master Is Come, and Calleth for Thee"Who Shall DeliverMe?"When My Heart Is Vexed, I Will Complain" ("O Lord, how canst Thou say Thou lovest me?")After CommunionSaints and AngelsA Rose Plant in JerichoSing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookAngels at the footLove me, - I love youMy baby has a father and a motherOut little baby fell asleep"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"Baby cryEight o'clockBread and milk for breakfastThere's snow on the fieldsDead in the cold, a song-singing thrushI dug and dug amongst the snowA city plum is not a plumYour brother has a falconHear what the mournful linnets sayA baby's cradle with no baby in itHop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack HornerHope is like a harebell trembling from its birthO wind, why do you never restCrying, my little one, footsore and wearyGrowing in the valeA linnet in a gilded cageWrens and robins in the hedgeMy baby has a mottled fistWhy did baby dieIf all were rain and never sunO wind, where have you beenOn the grassy banksRushes in a watery placeMinnie and MattieHeartease in my garden bedIf I were a QueenWhat are heavy? sea-sand and sorrowThere is but one May in the yearThe summer nights are shortThe days are clearTwist me a crown of wind-flowersBrown and furryA toadstoll comes up in a nightA pocket hankerchief to hemIf a pig wore a wigSeldom "can't"1 and 1 are 2How many seconds in a minuteWhat will you give me for my poundJanuary cold desolateWhat is pink? a rose is pinkMother shake the cherry-treeA pin has a head, but has no hairHopping frog, hop here and be seenWhere innocent bright-eyed daisies areThe city mouse lives in a houseWhat does the donkey bray aboutThree plum bunsA motherless soft lambkinDancing on the hill-topsWhen fishes set umbrellas upThe peacock has a score of eyesPussy has a whiskered faceThe dog lies in his kennelIf hope grew on a bushI planted a handUnder the ivy bushThere is one that has a head without an eyeIf a mouse could flySing me a songThe lily has an airMargaret has a milking-pailIn the meadow - what in the meadowA frisky lambMix a pancakeThe wind has such a rainy soundThree little childrenFly away, fly away over the seaMinnie bakes oaten cakesA white hen sittingCurrants on a bushI have but one rose in the worldRosy maiden WinifredWhen the cows come home the milk is comingRoses blushing red and white"Ding a ding"A ring upon her finger"Ferry me across the water"When a mounting skylark singsWho has seen the windThe horses of the seaO sailor, come ashoreA diamond or a coalAn emerald is green as grassBoats sail on the riversThe lily has a smooth stalkHurt no living thingI caught a little ladybirdAll the bells were ringingWee wee husbandI have a little husbandThe dear old woman in the laneSwift and sure the swallow"I dreamt I caught a little owl"What does the bee doI have a Poll parrotA house of cardsThe rose with such a bonny blushThe rose that blushes rosy redOh fair to seeClever little Willie weeThe peach tree on the southern wallA rose has thorns as well as honeyIs the moon tired? she looks so paleIf stars dropped out of heaven"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"If the sun could tell us halfIf the moon came from heavenO Lady Moon, your horns point toward the eastWhat do the stars doMotherless baby and babyless motherCrimson curtains round my mother's bedBaby lies so fast asleepI know a baby, such a babyLullaby, oh lullabyLie a-bedPoems Added in Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme BookBrownie, Brownie, let down your milkSroke a flint, and there is nothing to admireI am a KingPlaying at bob cherryBlind from my birthA Pageant and Other Poems (1881)Sonnets are full of love, and this my tomeThe Key-NoteThe Months/A PageantPastime"Italia, Io Ti Saluto!"Mirrors of Life and DeathA Ballad of BodingYet a Little While ("I dreamed and did not seek: today I seek")He and SheMonna Innominata"Luscious and Sorrowful" ("Beautiful, tender, wasting away for sorrow")De ProfundisTempus FugitGolden GloriesJohnny"Hollow-sounding and Mysterious"Maiden MayTill TomorrowDeath-WatchesTouching "Never"Brandons BothA Life's ParallelsAt LastGolden SilencesIn the Willow ShadeFluttered WingsA Fisher-WifeWhat's in a Name?MarianaMemento Mori"One Foot on Sea, and One on Shore"Buds and BabiesBoy JohnnyFreaks of FashionAn October Garden"Summer Is Ended"Passing and Glassing"I Will Arise"A Prodigal SonSoeur Louise de la MisericordeAn "Immurata" Sister"If Thou Sayest, Behold, We Knew It Not"The Thread of LifeAn Old-World Thicket"All Thy Works Praise Thee, O Lord"/A Processional of CreationLater Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"For Thine Own Sake, O My God"Until the Day Break"Of Him That Was Ready to Perish""Behold the Man!"The Descent from the Cross"It Is Finished"An Easter Carol"Behold a Shaking"All Saints ("They are flocking from the East")"Take Care of Him"A Martyr/The Vigil of the FeastWhy?"Love Is Strong as Death" ("I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee")Poems Added in Poems (1888, 1890)Birchington ChurchyardOne Sea-Side GraveBrother Bruin"A Helpmeet for Him"A Song of FlightA Wintry SonnetResurgamToday's Burden"There Is a Budding Morrow in Midnight"Exultate DeoA Hope CarolChristmas Carols: "Whoso hears a chiming for Christmas in the nighest"; "A holy, heavenly chime"; Lo! newborn JesusA Candlemas DialogueMary Magdalene and the Other Mary/A Song for XII MariesPatience of HopeVerses (1893)"OUT OF THE DEEP HAVE I CALLED UNTO THEE, O LORD"Alone Lord God, in Whom our trust and peaceSeven vials hold Thy wrath: but what can hold"Where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt""As the sparks fly upwards"Lord, make us all love all: that when we meetO Lord, I am ashamed to seek Thy FaceIt is not death, O Christ, to die for TheeLord, grant us eyes to see and ears to hear"Cried out with Tears"O Lord, on Whom we gaze and dare not gaze"I will come and heal him"Ah, Lord, Lord, if my heart were right with Thine"The gold of that land is good"Weigh all my faults and follies righteouslyLord, grant me grace to love Thee in my painLord, make me one with Thine own faithful ones"Light of Light"CHRIST OUR ALL IN ALL"The ransomed of the Lord"Lord, we are rivers running to Thy sea"An exceeding bitter cry"O Lord, when Thou didst call me, didst Thou know"Thou, God, seest me"Lord Jesus, who would think that I am Thine"The Name of Jesus"Lord God of Hosts, most Holy and most HighLord, what have I that I may offer TheeIf I should say "my heart is in my home"Leaf from leaf Christ knowsLord, carry me. - Nay, but I grant thee strengthLord, I am here. - But, child, I look for theeNew creatures; the Creator still the Same"King of kings and lord of lords"Thy Name, O Christ, as incense streaming forth"The Good Shepherd""Rejoice with Me"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do rightMe and my gift: kind Lord, behold"He cannot deny Himself""Slain from the foundation of the world"Lord Jesu, Thou art sweetness to my soulI, Lord, Thy foolish sinner low and small"Because He first loved us"Lord, hast Thou so loved us, and will not weAs the dove which found no rest"Thou art Fairer than the children of men""As the Apple Tree among the trees of the wood"None other Lamb, none other Name"Thy Friend and thy Father's Friend forget not""Surely He has borne our griefs""They toil not, neither do they spin"Darkness and light are both alike to Thee"And now why tarriest thou?"Have I not striven, my God, and watched and prayed"God is our Hope and Strength"Day and night the Accuser makes no pauseO mine enemyLord, dost Thou look on me, and will not I"Peace I leave with you"O Christ our All in each, our All in allBecause Thy Love hath sought meThy fainting spouse, yet still Thy spouse"Like as the hart desireth the water brooks""That where I am, there ye may be also""Judge not according to the appearance"My God, wilt Thou accept, and will not weA chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea"The Chiefest among ten thousand" ("O Jesu, better than thy gifts")Some Feasts and FastsAdvent SundayAdvent ("Earth grown old, yet still so green")Sooner or later: yet at lastChristmas EveChristmas DayChristmastideSt. John, Apostle"Beloved, let us love one another," says St. JohnHoly Innocents ("They scarcely waked before they slept")Unspotted lambs to follow the one LambEpiphanyEpiphanytideSeptuagesimaSexagesimaThat Eden of earth's sunrise cannot vieQuinquagesimaPiteous my rhyme isAsh Wednesday ("My God, my God, have mercy on my sin")Good Lord, todayLentEmbertideMid-LentPassiontidePalm SundayMonday in Holy WeekTuesday in Holy WeekWednesday in Holy WeekMaundy ThursdayGood Friday MorningGood Friday ("Lord Jesus Christ, grown faint upon the Cross")Good Friday Evening"A bundle of myrrh is my Well-beloved to me"Easter Even ("The tempest over and gone, the calm begun")Our Church Palms are budding willow twigsEaster DayEaster MondayEaster TuesdayRogationtideAscension EveAscension DayWhitsun Eve ("'As many as I love.' - Ah, Lord, Who lovest all")Whitsun DayWhitsun MondayWhitsun TuesdayTrinity SundayConversion of St. PaulIn weariness and painfulness St. PaulVigil of the PresentationFeast of the PresentationThe Purification of St. Mary the VirginVigil of the AnnunciationFeast of the AnnunciationHerself a rose, who bore the RoseSt. MarkSt. BarnabasVigil of St. PeterSt. PeterSt. Peter once: "Lord, dost Thou wash my feet?"I followed Thee, my God, I followed TheeVigil of St. BartholomewSt. Michael and All AngelsVigil of All SaintsAll Saints ("As grains of sand, as stars, as drops of dew")All Saints: Martyrs"I gave a sweet smell"Hark! the Alleluias of the great salvationA Song for the Least of All SaintsSunday before AdventGIFTS AND GRACESLove loveth Thee, and wisdom loveth TheeLord, give me love that I may love Thee much"As a king,....unto the King"O ye who love todayLife that was born today"Perfect Love casteth out Fear"Hope is the counterpoise of fear"Subject to like Passions as we are"Experience bows a sweet contented face"Charity never Faileth""The Greatest of these is Charity"All beneath the sun hastethIf thou be dead, forgive and thou shalt live"Let Patience have her perfect work" ("Can man rejoice who lives in hourly fear?")Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow"Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord"What is the beginning? Love. What the course? Love stillLord, make me pureLove, to be love, must walk Thy wayLord, I am feeble and of mean accountTune me, O Lord, into one Harmony"They shall be as white as snow"Thy lilies drink the dew"When I was in trouble I called upon the Lord"Grant us such grace that we may work Thy Will"Who hath despised the day of small things?""Do this, and he doeth it""That no man take thy Crown""Ye are come unto Mount Sion""Sit down in the lowest room""Lord, it is good for us to be here"Lord, grant us grace to rest upon Thy wordTHE WORLD. SELF-DESTRUCTION"A vain Shadow""Lord, save us, we perish"What is this above thy headBabylon the Great"Standing afar off for the fear of her torment""O Lucifer, Son of the Morning!"Alas, alas! for the self-destroyedAs froth on the face of the deep"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched"Toll, bell, toll. For hope is flyingDIVERS WORLDS. TIME AND ETERNTIYEarth has clear call of daily bells"Escape to the Mountain"I lift mine eyes to see: earth vanisheth"Yet a little while" ("Heaven is not far, though far the sky")"Behold, it was very good""Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive"This near-at-hand land breeds pain by measure"Was Thy Wrath against the Sea?""And there was no more Sea"Roses on a brierWe are of those who tremble at Thy word"Awake, thou that sleepest"We know not when, we know not where"I will lift up mine eyes unto the Hills" ("When sick of life and all the world")"Then whose shall those things be?""His Banner over me was Love"Beloved, yield thy time to God, for HeTime seems not shortThe half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness"As the Doves to their windows"Oh knell of a passing timeTime passeth away with its pleasure and pain"The Earth shall tremble at the Look of Him"Time lengthening, in the lengthening seemeth long"All Flesh is Grass"Heaven's chimes are slow, but sure to strike at last"There remaineth therefore a Rest to the People of God"Parting after parting"They put their trust in Thee, and were not confounded"Short is time, and only time is bleakFor EachFor AllNEW JERUSALEM AND ITS CITIZENS"The Holy City, New Jerusalem"When wickedness is broken as a treeJerusalem of fire"She shall be brought unto the King"Who is this that cometh up not aloneWho sits with the King in His Throne? Not a slave but a brideAntipas"Beautiful for situation"Lord, by what inconceivable dim road"As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country"Cast down but not destroyed, chastened not slainLift up thine eyes to seek the invisible"Love is strong as Death" ("As flames that consume the mountains, as winds that coerce the sea")"Let them rejoice in their beds" ("Crimson as the rubies, crimson as the roses")Slain in their high places: fallen on rest"What hath God wrought!""Before the Throne, and before the Lamb""He shall go no more out"Yea, blessed and holy is he that hath part in the First ResurrectionThe joy of Saints, like incense turned to fireWhat are these lovely ones, yea, what are these?"The General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn""Every one that is perfect shall be as his master""As dying, and behold we live""So great a cloud of Witnesses"Our Mothers, lovely women pitifulSafe where I cannot lie yet"Is it well with the child?"Dear Angels and dear disembodied Saints"To every seed his own body""What good shall my life do me?" ("Have dead men long to wait?")SONGS FOR STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS"Her Seed; It shall bruise thy head""Judge nothing before the time"How great is little manMan's life is but a working dayIf not with hope of life"The day is at hand""Endure hardness""Whither the Tribes go up, even the Tribes of the Lord"Where never tempest heavethMarvel of marvels, if I myself shall behold"What is that to thee? follow thou me""Worship God""Afterward he repented, and went""Are they not all Ministering Spirits?"Our life is long. Not so, wise Angels sayLord, what have I to offer? sickening farJoy is but sorrowCan I know it? - Nay"When my heart is vexed I will complain" ("The fields are white to harvest, look and see")"Praying always""As thy days, so shall thy strength be"A heavy heart, if ever heart was heavyIf love is not worth loving, then life is not worth livingWhat is it Jesus saith unto the soulThey lie at rest, our blessed dead"Ye that fear Him, both small and great""Called to be Saints"The sinner's own fault? So it wasWho cares for earthly bread tho' white?Laughing Life cries at the feast"The end is not yet"Who would wish back the Saints upon our rough"That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is Man"Of each sad word which is more sorrowful"I see that all things come to an end""But Thy Commandment is exceeding broad"Sursum CordaO ye,who are not dead and fitWhere shall I find a white rose blowing"Redeeming the Time""Now they desire a Better Country"A Castle-Builder's World"These all wait upon Thee""Doeth well...doeth better"Our heaven must be within ourselves"Vanity of Vanities" ("Of all the downfalls in the world")The hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walkScarce tolerable life, which all life longAll heaven is blazing yet"Balm in Gilead""In the day of his Espousals""She came from the uttermost part of the earth"Alleluia! or Alas! my heart is cryingThe Passion Flower hath sprung up tallGod's Acre"The Flowers appear on the Earth""Thou knewest...thou oughtest therefore""Go in Peace""Half dead""One of the Soldiers with a Spear pierced His Side"Where love is, there comes sorrowBury Hope out of sightA Churchyard Song of Patient HopeOne woe is past. Come what come will"Take no thought for the morrow""Consider the Lilies of the field" ("Solomon most gracious in array")"Son, remember""Heaviness may endure for a night, but Joy cometh in the morning""The Will of the Lord be done""Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven""Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth""Then shall ye shout"Everything that is born must dieLord, grant us calm, if calm can set forth TheeChanging Chimes"Thy Servant will go and fight with this Philistine"Thro' burden and heat of the day"Then I commended Mirth"Sorrow hath a double voiceShadows today, while shadows show God's Will"Truly the Light is sweet""Are ye not much better than they?""Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house""I am small and of no reputation"O Christ my God Who seest the unseenYea, if Thou wilt, Thou canst put up Thy swordSweetness of rest when Thou sheddest restO foolish Soul! to make thy countBefore the beginning Thou hast foreknown the endThe goal in sigh! Look up and singLooking back along life's trodden waySeparately Published PoemsDeath's Chill BetweenHeart's Chill BetweenRepiningNew EnigmasCharadesThe Rose ("O Rose, thou flower of flowers, thou fragrant wonder")The Trees' Counselling"Behold, I stand at the door and knock""Gianni my friend and I both strove to excel"The Offering of the New Law, the One Oblation once OfferedThe eleventh hourI know you notA Christmas Carol ("Before the paling of the stars")Easter Even ("There is nothing more that they can do")Come unto MeAsh Wednesday ("Jesus, do I love Thee?")Spring Fancies"Last Night"Peter Grump/ForssHelen GreyIfSeasons ("Oh the cheerful budding-time")Henry HardimanWithin the VeilParadise: in a Symbol"In July""Love hath a name of Death""Tu scnedi dalle stelle, O Re del Cielo""Alas my Lord"An AlphabetHusband and WifeMichael F.M. RossettiA Sick Child's Meditation"Love is all happiness, love is all beauty""A handy Mole who plied no shovel""One swallow does not make a summer""Contemptuous of his home beyond"A Word for the DumbCardinal NewmanAn Echo from Willowwood"Yea, I Have a Goodly Heritage"A Death of a First-born"Faint, Yet Pursuing""What will it be, O my soul, what will it be""Lord, Thou art fulness, I am emptiness""O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee""Faith and Hope are wings to Love"A Sorrowful Sigh of a Prisoner"I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow""Passing away the bliss""Love builds a nest on earth and waits for rest""Jesus alone: - if thus it were to me"The Way of the WorldBooks in the Running BrooksGone BeforePrivately Printed PoemsThe Dead CityThe Water Spirit's SongThe Song of the StarSummer ("Hark to the song of greeting! the tall trees!")To my Mother on her BirthdayThe Ruined CrossEvaLove ephemeralBurial AnthemSapphoTasso and LeonoraOn the Death of a CatMother and ChildFair MargaretEarth and HeavenLove attackedLove defendedDivine and Human PleadingTo My Friend ElizabethAmore e DovereAmore e DispettoLove and HopeSerenadeThe Rose ("Gentle, gentle river")Present and FutureWill These Hands Ne'er Be Clean?Sir Eustace GreyThe Time of WaitingCharityThe Dead BrideLife Out of DeathThe solitary RoseLady Isabella ("Lady Isabella")The DreamThe Dying Man to his BetrothedThe MartyrThe End of TimeResurrection EveZara ("Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken")VersiL'Incognita"Purpurea rosa""Soul rudderless, unbraced""Animuccia, vagantuccia, morbiduccia"Unpublished PoemsHeavenHymnCorydon's Lament and ResolutionRosalindPitia a DamoneThe Faithless ShepherdessAriadne to TheseusOn AlbinaA Hymn for Christmas DayLove and DeathDespairForget Me NotEaster MorningA TirsiThe Last Words of St. TelemachusLord Thomas and fair MargaretLines to my GrandfatherCharade ("My first may be the firstborn")Hope in GriefLisetta all'AmanteSong ("I saw her; she was lovely")Praise of Love"I have fought a good fight"Wishes:/SonnetEleanorIsidoraThe NoviceImmaleeLady Isabella ("Heart warm as Summer, fresh as Spring")Night and Death"Young men aye were fickle found/ Since summer trees were leafy"The Lotus-Eaters:/Ulysses to PenelopeSonnet/from the PsalmsSong ("The stream moaneth as it floweth")A CounselThe World's HarmoniesLines/given with a PenwiperThe last AnswerOne of the Dead"The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint""I do set My bow in the cloud""O Death where is thy Sting?"UndineLady MontrevorFloral Teaching"Death is swallowed up in Victory"DeathA Hopeless Case/(Nydia)Ellen MiddletonSt. Andrew's ChurchGrown Cold/SonnetZara ("The pale sad face of her I wronged")Ruin"I sit among green shady valleys oft""Listen, and I will tell you of a face""Wouldst thou give me a heavy jewelled crown""I said, within myself: I am a fool""Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun""Strange voices sing among the planets which""Sleep, sleep happy one"What Sappho would have said had her leap cured instead of killing herOn KeatsHave PatienceTo Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvySonnet ("Some say that love and joy are one: and so")The last ComplaintHave you forgotten?A Christmas Carol,/(on the stroke of Midnight)For AdventTwo PursuitsLooking forwardLife hiddenQueen RoseHow one choseSeeking restA Year AfterwardsTwo thoughts of DeathThree MomentsOnceThree NunsSong ("We buried her among the flowers")The WatchersAnnie ("Annie is fairer than her kith")A Dirge ("She was sweet as violets in the Spring")Song ("It is not for her even brow")A Dream"A fair World tho' a fallen"Advent ("'Come,' Thou dost say to Angels")All Saints ("They have brought good and spices to my King")"Eye hath not seen"St. Elizabeth of HungaryMoonshine"The Summer is ended""I look for the Lord"Song ("I have loved you for long long years Ellen")A DiscoveryFrom the Antique ("The wind shall lull us yet")"The heart knoweth its own bitterness" ("Weep yet a while")"To what purpose is this waste?")Next of Kin"Let them rejoice in their beds" ("The winds sing to us where we lie")PortraitsWhitsun Eve ("The white dove cooeth in her downy nest")What?A PauseHoly Innocents ("Sleep, little Baby, sleep")"There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God" ("Come blessed sleep, most full, most perfect, come")Annie ("It's not for earthly bread, Annie")Seasons ("In spring time when the leaves are young")"Thou sleepest where the lilies fade""I wish I were a little bird"(Two parted)"All night I dream you love me well"(For Rosaline's Album)"Care flieth"(Epitaph)The P.R.B.Seasons ("Crocuses and snowdrops wither")"Who have a form of godliness"BalladA Study. (A Soul)"There remaineth therefore a rest""Ye have forgotten the exhortation"GuessesFrom the Antique ("It's a weary life, it is; she said")Three StagesLong looked forListeningZara ("I dreamed that loving me he would love on")The last look"I have a message unto thee"CobwebsUnforgottenAn AfterthoughtTo the end"Zion said"May ("Sweet Life is dead")River Thames (?)A chilly night"Let patience have her perfect work" ("I saw a bird alone")A Martyr ("It is over the horrible pain")In the LaneAcmeA bed of Forget-me-notsThe Chiefest among ten thousand ("When sick of life and all the world")"Look on this picture and on this""Now they desire"A Christmas Carol,/for my Godchildren"Not yours but you"An AnswerSir WinterIn an Artist's StudioIntrospective"The heart knoweth its own bitterness" ("When all the over-work of life")"Reflection"A Coast-Nightmare"For one Sake"My old Friends"Yet a little while" ("These days are long before I die")"Only believe""Rivals"/A Shadow of Saint DorotheaA YawnFor H.P."Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another""What good shall my life do me?" ("No hope in life; yet is there hope")The Massacre of Perugia"I have done with hope"Promises like PiecrustBy the waters of BabylonBetter soOur widowed QueenIn progress"Out of the deep"For a Mercy receivedSummer ("Come, cuckoo, come")A Dumb FriendMargeryIn PatienceSunshineMeeting"None with Him"Under WillowsA SketchIf I had WordsWhat to do?Young DeathIn a certain place"Cannot sweeten"Of my life"Yes, I too could face death and never shrink""Would that I were a turnip white""I fancy the good fairies dressed in white""Some ladies dress in muslin full and white"Autumn ("Fade tender lily")IL ROSSEGGIAR DELL'ORIENTE1. Amor dormente?2. Amor Si sveglia?3. Si rimanda la tocca-caldaja4. "Blumine" risponde5. "Lassu fia caro il rivederci"6. Non son io la rosa ma vi stetti appresso"7. "Lassuso il caro Fiore"8. Sapessi pure!9. Iddio c'illumini!10. Amicizia:/"Sirocchia son d'Amor"11. "Luscious and sorrowful"12. "Oh forza irresistibile / Dell'umile preghiera"13. Finestra mia orientale14. (Eppure allora venivi)15. Per Prefernza16. Oggi17. (Se fossi andata a Hastings)18. Ripetizione19. "Amico e più che amico mio"20. "Nostre voluntà quieti Virtù di carità"21. (Se cosi fosse)BY WAY OF REMEMBRANCE"Remember, if I claim too much of you""Will you be there? my yearning heart has cried""In resurrection is it awfuller""I love you and you know it--this at least"VALENTINES FROM C.G.R."Fairer than younger beauties, more beloved"A Valentine, 1877187818791880St. Valentine's Day / 1881A Valentine / 1882February 14. 188318841885/ St. Valentine's Day1886/ St. Valentine's Day"Ah welladay and wherefore am I here?""Along the highroad the way is too long""And is this August weather? nay not so""From early dawn until the flush of noon""I seek among the living and I seek""O glorious sea that in each climbing wave""Oh thou who tell'st me that all hope is over""Surely there is an aching void within""The spring is come again not as at first""Who shall my wandering thoughts steady and fix""You who look on passed ages as a glass""Angeli al capo, al piede""Amami, t'amo""E babbo e mamma ha il nostro figliolino""S'addormento la nostra figliolina""Cuccurucù! cuccurucù!" "Oibo, piccina""Otto ore suonano""Nel verno accanto al fuoco""Gran freddo è infuori, e dentro è freddo un poco""Scavai la neve, - si che scavai!""Sì che il fratello s'ha un falconcello""Udite, si dolgono mesti fringuelli""Ahi culla vuota! ed ahi sepolcro pieno""Lugubre e vagabondo in terra e in mare""Aura dolcissima, ma donde siete?""Foss'io regina""Pesano rena e pena""Basta una notte a maturare il fungo""Porco la zucca""Salta, ranocchio, e mostrati""Spunta la margherita""Agnellina orfanellina""Amico pesce, piover vorrà""Sposa velata""Cavalli marittimi""O marinaro che mi apporti tu?""Arrossisce la rosa: e perchè mai?""La rosa china il volto rosseggiato""O cilegia infiorita""In tema e in pena addio""D'un sonno profondissino""Ninna nanna, ninna nanna!""Capo che chinasi"The Succession of KingsA true Story. (continued.)"The two Rossettis (brothers they")Imitated from the Arpa Evangelica: Page 121"Mr. and Mrs. Scott, and I""Gone to his rest""O Uommibatto""Cor mio, cor mio""I said 'All's over' - & I made my""I said good bye in hope"My Mouse"Had Fortune parted us"Counterblast on Penny Trumpet"A roundel seems to fit a round of days""Heaven overarches earth and sea""Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over"4th May morning"'Quanto a Lei grata io sono'"The Chinaman"'Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer!'"The Plague"How many authors are my first!""Me you often meet""So I began my walk of life; no stop""So I grew half delirious and quite sick""On the note you do not send me"CharonFrom MetastasioChiesa e SignoreGolden Holly"I toiled on, but thou"Cor Mio ("Still sometimes in my secret heart of hearts")"My old admiration before I was twenty"To Mary Rossetti"Ne' sogni ti veggo"To my For-di-Lisa"Hail, noble face of noble friend!"NotesIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines

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Book SynopsisComposed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar''s great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king, the Simorgh bird. On hearing that to find him they must undertake an arduous journey, the birds soon express their reservations to their leader, the hoopoe. With eloquence and insight, however, the hoopoe calms their fears, using a series of riddling parables to provide guidance in the search for spiritual truth. By turns witty and profound, The Conference of the Birds transforms deep belief into magnificent poetry.Trade Review“This felicitous translation is a classic and reaches the widest possible audience.” — David Azzolina, Assistant Professor, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsThe Conference of the Birds - Farid ud-Din Attar Translated with an Introduction by Afkham Darbandi and Dick DavisIntroductionThe Conference of the BirdsBiographical Index

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Book SynopsisA work of tremendous influence that has inspired writers from his ancient Greek contemporaries to modernist writers such as T.S. Eliot, Homer''s epic poem The Iliad is translated by Robert Fagles with an introduction and notes by Bernard Knox in Penguin Classics.One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer''s Iliad tells the story of the darkest episode in the Trojan War. At its centre is Achilles, the greatest warrior-champion of the Greeks, and his refusal to fight after being humiliated by his leader Agamemnon. But when the Trojan Hector kills Achilles'' close friend Patroclus, Achilles storms back into battle to take revenge - although knowing this will ensure his own early death. Interwoven with this tragic sequence of events are powerfully moving descriptions of the ebb and flow of battle, of the domestic world inside Troy''s besieged city of Ilium, and of the conflicts between the Gods on Olympus as they argue over the fate of mortals.Table of ContentsThe IliadTranslator's PrefaceIntroductionIntroductionThe Spelling and Pronunciation of Homeric NamesMaps1. Homeric Geography: Mainland Greece2. Homeric Geography: The Peloponnese3. Homeric Geography: The Aegean and Asia MinorInset: Troy and VicinityHomer: The IliadBook 1: The Rage of AchillesBook 2: The Great Gathering of ArmiesBook 3: Helen Reviews the ChampionsBook 4: The Truce Erupts in WarBook 5: Diomedes Fights the GodsBook 6: Hector Returns to TroyBook 7: Ajax Duels with HectorBook 8: The Tide of Battle TurnsBook 9: The Embassy to AchillesBook 10: Marauding Through the NightBook 11: Agamemnon's Day of GloryBook 12: The Trojans Storm the RampartBook 13: Battling for the ShipsBook 14: Hera Outflanks ZeusBook 15: The Achaean Armies at BayBook 16: Patroclus Fights and DiesBook 17: Menelaus' Finest HourBook 18: The Shield of AchillesBook 19: The Champion Arms for BattleBook 20: Olympian Gods in ArmsBook 21: Achilles Fights the RiverBook 22: The Death of HectorBook 23: Funeral Games for PatroclusBook 24: Achilles and PriamNotesThe Genealogy of the Royal House of TroyTextual Variants from the Oxford Classical TextNotes on the TranslationSuggestions for Further ReadingPronouncing Glossary

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Book SynopsisAt the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual''s responsibility for his own choices, the artist''s commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.''Throughout the volume Heaney''s outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without.'' Martin Dodsworth, Guardian

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Book SynopsisTaking in its sights Matthew Arnold''s ''land of dreams'', the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway''s first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. By turns realist and romantic, these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation, but remain, always, touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living.

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Book SynopsisThe first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set him on his celebrated path.

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Book SynopsisIn this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.The birds are gone to bed; the cows are still,And sheep lie panting on each old mole hill,And underneath the willow''s grey-green bough --Like toil a resting -- lies the fallow plough.-- Hares at Play

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Book SynopsisWendy Cope''s first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as ''Bloody Men'', ''Men and Their Boring Arguments'', ''Two Cures for Love'', ''Kindness to Animals'' and ''Tumps'' (Typically Useless Male Poets).This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series of ten titles celebrating Faber''s publishing over the decades.

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Book SynopsisYehuda Amichai was first brought to attention in this country by his inclusion in Modern Poetry in Translation (1965). The magazine''s editors, Daniel Weissbort and Ted Hughes, here provide a selection of Amichai''s poetry translated by various hands, placing his achievements alongside those other Eastern European poets with whom he was first introduced Zbigniew Herbert, Miroslav Holub, Vasko Popa, Czeslaw Milosz and Andrei Voznesensky while demonstrating what makes his own talent so unique.In Ted Hughes''s words, Amichai was ''the poet whose books I still open most often, most often take on a journey, most often return to when the whole business of writing anything natural, real and satisfying, seems impossible. And that after thirty years of feeling the same way about him. The effect his poetry has on me is to give me my own life to open it up somehow, to make it available to me afresh, to uncover all kinds of riches in every moment of it, and to free me from my mental prisons''.

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Book SynopsisSimon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.

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Book Synopsis''It would be difficult - in my opinion impossible - to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling'' Anthony PowellTHE DEFINITIVE JOHN BETJEMAN COLLECTION, REISSUED FOR THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTHCollected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman''s verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion.Includes his verse autobiography Summoned by Bells in its entirety.Trade ReviewA true poet who extends experience * Margaret Lane *John Betjeman has succeeded . . . in narrowing the gulf between poetry and the public . . . he has established a personal regency over all contemporary taste * The Times *It would be difficult - in my opinion impossible - to point to a contemporary poet of greater originality or more genuine depth of feeling * Anthony Powell *

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Book SynopsisThe complete works of one of Britain's finest, introduced by Andrew Motion.

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Book SynopsisHere is a perfect little gift: the most beloved poems by the most essential American poet of the last centuryTrade Review"It is ever more apparent that Williams was this century’s major American poet." -- Chicago Tribune"Possibly no modern American poem is more widely known than Williams’s ‘The Red Wheelbarrow,’ that tiny epiphany. Williams himself, not given to making high claims for his own work, considered this poem ‘quite perfect.’ If you look at the lingua franca of American poetry today—a colloquial free verse focused on visual description and meaningful anecdote—it seems clear that Williams is the twentieth-century poet who has done most to influence our very conception of what poetry should do, and how much it does not need to do." -- Adam Kirsch - The New York Review of Books"He had a thirst for now. And he had his own beat, ‘a certain unquenchable exaltation’ as he said of his renowned wheelbarrow. The excitement the writing exuded is as contagious today as when he made his rounds ‘quickened by the life about him.’ The reader is induced to stay awake. Make contact. Look ahead." -- C. D. Wright"Williams is the author of the most vivid poems of modern American poetry." -- Octavio Paz

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Book SynopsisFrom the internationally bestselling author of Love Her Wild, The Dark Between Stars, and The Truth About Magic comes LVOE., a dazzling new journey into the great unknown by Atticus. Featuring over 250 brand new poems, this sees Atticus take his readers on an enthralling, unforgettable new adventure. For the first time since he began writing, three-time New York Times bestselling author Atticus is inviting readers to take a look behind the mask as he embarks on a powerful journey inward in search of love, peace, and acceptance.His fourth poetry collection, LVOE., is a study into himself. Using his instantly recognisable lyrical style, gorgeous black-and-white illustrations, and relatable themes, Atticus will once again dazzle readers, inspiring them to also look within. This collection will feature all-new poems, each paired with beautiful sketches that bring the words alive from the page.An exploration of self-love, meditation, m

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Book SynopsisIn her extraordinary collection, Kathleen Jamie examines her native Scotland - a country at once wild and contained, rural and urban - and her place within it. In the author's own words: '2014 was a year of tremendous energy in my native Scotland, and knowing I wanted to embrace that energy and participate in my own way, I resolved to write a poem a week, and follow the cycle of the year.' The poems also venture into childhood and family memory - and look to ahead to the future. The Bonniest Companie is a visionary response to a year shaped and charged by both local and global forces, and will stand as a remarkable document of our times.Trade ReviewAn engaging and energetic collection that follows the cycle of a year, cycles within cycles, the migrations of birds and people. The many voices of Scotland’s natural and social worlds combine to create an outstanding aural map of our times -- Jackie Kay * Herald *

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Book SynopsisA fantastic Christmas present for Neil Gaiman super fans ** AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 NEWS ** Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in aid of the UNHCR’s winter appeal. It revealed our shared desire to feel safe, welcome and warm in a world that can often feel frightening and lonely. Sales of every copy of this book will help support the work of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, which helps forcibly displaced communities and stateless people across the world. Now publishing in hardback and illustrated by a group of artists from around the world, What You Need to Be Warm is an exploration of displacement and flight from conflict through the objects and memories that represent warmth. It is about our right to feel safe, whoever we are and wherever we are from. It is about holding out a hand to welcome those who find themselves far from home. Featuring new, original illustrations from Chris Riddell, Benji Davies, Yuliya Gwilym, Nadine Kaadan, Daniel Egnéus, Pam Smy, Petr Horácek, Beth Suzanna, Bagram Ibatoulline, Marie-Alice Harel, Majid Adin and Richard Jones, with a thought-provoking cover from Oliver Jeffers.Trade ReviewThis timely book is a reminder of the basic human need for comfort and shelter * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisIn Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on work written over four decades, and she adds to her selection one new poem. It makes for a sequence that is sensual, stimulating, irresistible.Trade ReviewWonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language * Telegraph *Duffy is magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself * Scotsman *Carol Ann Duffy is arguably the nation’s favourite living poet * Jeanette Winterson, author of Frankissstein *Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThe breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman‘Poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it’ Malala YousafzaiThe luminous poetry collection captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, these poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.‘A new collection full of hope and healing from the young American poet who electrified the world’ Guardian‘Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to’ Tracy K. Smith‘The liberating force of the stories these poems tell about our resilience and survival showcases a powerful griot for our times’ Oprah DailyTrade ReviewHaunting... A soaring sense of history and solidarity pervades Gorman's debut collection... Call Us What We Carry is wide awake to the complex strata of human history and restlessly original in its poetic form... This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy * Guardian *A book of poetry so alive you want to hold it and protect it, to read it all at once, and then immediately read it againPowerful... poignant... tender... Amanda Gorman's debut proves that she is poetry's brightest young thing * Tatler *Between breath, light, water and soil, text messages and letters, and visual formations of ships, whales and flags, Gorman's Call Us What We Carry is an inventive literary resurrection * Daily Mail *Amanda Gorman is a seer, a seeker, a speaker of our most difficult and astonishing truths. Reading these poems, I feel at once haunted, heartened and formidably ministered to

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Book Synopsis**Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed. Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met by the state triggered a new era of race relations in Britain.Tracing a line from New Cross to the 'towers of blood' of the Grenfell fire, this urgent collection speaks with, in and of the voices of the past, brought back by the incantation of dancehall rhythms and the music of Jamaican patois, to form a living presence in the absence of justice. A ground-breaking work of excavation, memory and activism - both political and personal, witness and documentary - Surge shines a much-needed light on an unacknowledged chapter in British history, one that powerfully resonates in our present moment.'The verse has anger and political purpose, but a rare lyrical precision, too. The combination is powerful' Sebastian Faulks, Spectator, Books of the Year 2020 *Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry**Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award; T.S. Eliot Prize; Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Dylan Thomas Prize; RSL Ondaatje Prize; John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize**Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2020*Trade ReviewHaunting, historical, archival and imaginative... a stunning debut -- Bernardine Evaristo * New Statesman, Books of the Year *Surge is a radical hybrid, painfully beautiful multigenerational ghost story, a social document, and a work of political archaeology. It is an indictment of this country's systemic hostility to its black, Asian and ethnic minority population, and the scandalous lack of accountability when this system claims lives. It is a heartbreaking and brilliant book about an ongoing tragedy -- Max Porter * Guardian, *Books of the Year* *Politically and lyrically compelling -- Raymond Antrobus * Observer, *Books of the Year* *Sensitive but devastating verse * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2019* *A searing combination of artistic invention and meticulous research into the 1981 New Cross Fire -- Pascale Petit, *RSL Ondaatje Prize*This affecting poetic exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981 (dubbed “The New Cross Massacre”) is incantatory, lyrical and documentary. It makes a deep impact both on account of its own narrative and in the wake of Grenfell -- Elizabeth-Jane Burnett * The Sunday Times *A sad and angry consolation, alert to the past... Surge is a mature work, with lyricism both poetic and pop... [One] of British poetry’s most distinctive new voices -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph *Although the fire, the subsequent protests and the founding of the Black People’s Day of Action were documented by poets Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah among others, Bernard’s work uniquely addresses a new generation encountering this past almost afresh, as it is echoed painfully inthe present... The collection’s major achievement is its unfailing attentiveness to the framing of history through the stories of individuals and collectives that the poet holds, urgently, ethically and so skilfully, in their hands -- Sandeep Parmar * Guardian *If there were ever to be a twenty-first century Auden, with all the invention and cultural understanding, understanding of tradition and sense of the speed and the human outcome of foul politics, Jay Bernard is it -- Ali SmithJay Bernard’s poems sing with outrage and indignation, with fury and passion. They tell the story of two terrible fires of our times, and shockingly show how the past holds up an uncomfortable mirror to the present. They have brio, they have brilliance, they are breathtakingly brave. An astonishingly accomplished debut -- Jackie KayBernard brings alive the archive, evoking ghosts and giving voice to the dead and the aggrieved from moments in recent history all too painful... At each turn, these are poems that make you sit up and take notice * Diva *The poems here seethe with unspoken rage and acerbity; they read like thinned-out paraffin, something on the cusp of explosion... A brutal indictment of Britain’s racist history and hypocrisy in the face of the facts... Bernard’s persistent question drills down, line by line, into Britain’s dark subconscious -- Marek Sullivan * Frieze magazine *Rarely has the idea of the objectified, violated black body been framed so starkly... Bernard’s knack for showing rather than telling [...] ensures that their sustained engagement with tiered identity never feels overdone... Surge is valuable as much for its imaginative acumen as for its unflinching politics -- Camille Ralphs * Times Literary Supplement *Brilliant and unbearably moving… a kind of crowd-poem of different voices, connection the New Cross fire to the Grenfell Tower and all the victims of racism and racist violence in London -- Andy Croft * Morning Star *A range of poetic forms bring energy to this reappraisal of race, nation and embodiment -- Sandeep Parmar * Guardian, *Books of the Year* *Imagined with both tenderness and frankness... Its strong sense of place, patois, demand for justice, curiosity...are reminders that four decade on, the tragedy remains an open wound -- Kehinde Andrews * Observer *Jay Bernard's furious and heartbreaking poetry collection is their response to this outrageous tragedy [of the New Cross fire]. Read and feel rage * Guardian *'The verse has anger and political purpose, but a rare lyrical precision, too. The combination is powerful' * Sebastian Faulks, Spectator Books of the Year *The verse has anger and political purpose, but a rare lyrical precision, too. The combination is powerful -- Sebastian Faulks * Spectator, *Books of the Year* *

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Book SynopsisRead this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy.High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities look down on the world of men, to the city of Troy where a bitter and bloody war has dragged into its tenth year, and a quarrel rages between a legendary warrior and his commander. Greek ships decay, men languish, exhausted, and behind the walls of Troy a desperate people await the next turn of fate.This is the Iliad: an ancient story of enduring power; magnetic characters defined by stirring and momentous speeches; a panorama of human lives locked in a heroic struggle beneath a mischievous or indifferent heaven. Above all, this is a tale of the devastation, waste and pity of war.Caroline Alexander's virtuoso translation captures the rhythms and energy of Homer's original Greek while making the text as accessible as possible to a modern reader, accompanied by extensive extra material to provide a background to the poem.The result of 3,000 years of story-telling, Homer’s epic tale of the fall of Troy has resonated with every age and every human conflict: this is the Iliad at its most electrifying and vital.Trade ReviewVirtuoso * New York Review of Books *Caroline Alexander's Iliad is miraculous. It has the rhythms and even the lineation of the original Homeric text. Its language conveys the precise meaning of the Greek in a sinewy yet propulsive style that drives the reader inexorably forward. In my judgement, this new translation is far superior to the familiar and admired work of Lattimore, Fitzgerald and Fagles -- G.W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonOf the many new translations of Homer’s poem that have come out in the past two or three years, perhaps the most highly readable is Caroline Alexander’s. Thought to be the first woman to have Englished the poem, Alexander embraces Matthew Arnold’s four essential Homeric qualities: rapidity, plainness of style, simplicity of ideas and nobility of manner, in lines that ebb and flow with the tide of battle. The book wears its learning lightly, the introduction pitching the Iliad as the ultimate anti-war poem. * Times Literary Supplement *The Homeric Iliad originates from a rich tradition of performing song. It was meant to be heard. True to the living word of the original Greek, Caroline Alexander’s new translation invites us to engage directly with this tradition. When I read her verses I can almost hear the music of Homeric performance. -- Professor Gregory Nagy, Professor of Classical Greek Literarture, Harvard UniversityCaroline Alexander has done admirably in rendering the meaning of the Homeric text faithfully and suitably dignified language. The format gives a genuine sense of reading a verse epic. Her line-numbers match the Greek, which will make this version convenient for use by college teachers and students -- Martin West, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

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Book SynopsisHomer''s Odyssey is the Ancient Greek tale of Odysseus and his eventful voyage home after the Trojan War. His many adventures on his 10-year journey are the subject of this famous prose translation by T.E. Lawrence, which was the first to be aimed at a general readership.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.

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Book SynopsisMick Evans is a writer who takes risks. Never content to remain static, the voice is increasingly explorative, increasingly nuanced and possessed of a compassion that is also clear-sighted. The feel for language, the lyrical pulse, the acuteness of observation and the range and depth of references are signature features of Mick Evans'' work. But with each new collection the reach is extended. There are poems here that unsettle or warn, that celebrate or remember, that surprise and delight, poems that make us laugh or wonder and always there is love not sentiment, not nostalgia, but permeable, authentic, love in all its shades of grief and joy.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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