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with Lighter Heart

There times in life when darker thoughts lurk within the mind, or deep emotions which set love and sorrow, regret and hope mulling within the heart. Sadly, some fine poetry comes from the heavier end of the emotional scale. This is a selection which touches on such thoughts and emotions. Let each speak for itself.

If Only by Megan Burke
'If Only'

Anon

'I am not there ...'


Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Break Break Break

Crossing of the Bar


Wystan Hugh Auden

Stop All the Clocks


Basho [ Matsuo Kinsaku ]

Summer Grass


William Blake

A poison tree


Edward Estlin Cummings

Buffalo Bill


Walter De La Mare

An Epitaph


Emily Dickenson

' Because I could not stop for death . . .'


Langston Hughes

Dream Deferred


Rudyard Kipling

A Dead Statesman

My Boy Jack


E Linmar

12.8.40


Leo Marks

Yours


Spike Milligan

The Soldiers At Lauro


Lorine Niedecker

'My life is a . . .'


Walter Ralegh

Epitaph


Christina Rossetti

Song


Siegfred Sassoon

A Mystic as Soldier


Vikram Seth

All You Who Sleep Tonight


Stevie Smith

Not Waving But Drowning

 

by Foreign Tongues

 

of Love

 

Conflict & Soldiery

 

in Dark Times

 

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