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'

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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