Poetry

I do not pretend to reading poetry for poetry's sake; most of these were read for my secondary school English class. But these are poems which I identify with, or which have made a deep impression on me.

Most of the people who find my website through a search engine are searching for the following poems. Gah! Meanwhile my poor photo gallery and oh so witty writings go unappreciated...

John Keats

(My favourite poet)

Ode To A Nightingale

When I have fears that I may cease to be

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Emily Dickinson

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

The Soul has Bandaged moments

Stevie Smith

Not Waving But Drowning

William Shakespeare

'All the world's a stage'

Seamus Heaney

Bye-Child

Eavan Boland

It's A Woman's World

The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me

W. H. Auden

'As I walked out one evening'

W. B. Yeats

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est