Wednesday 28 June 2017

Great poetry explained: an index to my blogs



Arnold, Matthew

Dover Beach


Atkinson, Geraldine

The Spirit


Auden, W H

Lady, Weeping at the Crossroads



Belloc, Hilaire

Matilda Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death


Binyon, Laurence

For The Fallen


Blake, William

Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet ...)
Nurse's Song
The Fly
The Garden of Love
The Lamb
The Little Vagabond




Bridges, Robert

Nightingales



Burns, Robert

Tam O' Shanter



Chesterton, G K

Americanisation



Clare, John

Autumn Morning
Mouse's Nest
Winter Evening


Cope, Wendy

Bloody Men



Crabbe, George

Procrastination


Davies, W H

Leisure
The Inquest


Day-Lewis, Cecil

Walking Away


De La Mare, Walter

The Children of Stare


Donne, John

Nativity
The Good-Morrow



Dooley, Maura

1847


Duffy, Carol Ann


Before You Were Mine
Elvis's Twin Sister
In Mrs Tilscher's Class
Little Red Cap
Mrs Midas
Small Female Skull
Standing Female Nude
The Kray Sisters
War Photographer
We Remember Your Childhood Well
Woman Seated In The Underground, 1941
Words, Wide Night



Frost, Robert

The Draft Horse


Fulleylove, Lydia

Devastation Hill
Ritual
Stove
The Prison and The Sea
Winter Walk



Goldsmith, Oliver

The Deserted Village


Gray, Thomas

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College


Hardy, Thomas


1967
A Bird-Scene At A Rural Dwelling
A Christmas Ghost Story
A Church Romance
A Circular
A Dream Or No
A Plaint To Man
A Sunday Morning Tragedy
A Thunderstorm in Town
A Wife in London
After a Journey
Afterwards
An August Midnight
Beeny Cliff
Channel Firing
Domicilium
Drummer Hodge
Geographical Knowledge
God's Funeral
Hap
Her Dilemma
His Visitor
I Found Her Out There
In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden 11-12 pm
Men Who March Away
Near Lanivet, 1872
Night in the Old Home
Neutral Tones
Places
Shelley's Skylark
The Bride-Night Fire
The Choirmaster's Burial
The Convergence Of The Twain
The Darkling Thrush
The Going
The Haunter
The Mock Wife
The Oxen
The Phantom Horsewoman
The Pity Of It
The Revisitation
The Roman Road
The Ruined Maid
The Shadow On the Stone
The Sick Battle-God
The Souls Of The Slain
The Spell Of The Rose
The Temporary The All
The Voice
The Walk
The Year's Awakening
Voices From Things Growing In a Churchyard
Wessex Heights
When I Set Out For Lyonnesse
Where The Picnic Was
Your Last Drive


Heaney, Seamus

Bogland


Herrick Robert

To Daffodils


Higgins, Rita Ann

Some People



Hill, Selima

The World's Entire Wasp Population


Hood, Thomas

Faithless Sally Brown



Hopkins, Gerard Manley

No Worst, There Is None
Pied Beauty


Housman, A E

Hell Gate


Larkin, Philip


Aubade
Here
High Windows
Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album
MCMXIV
Sad Steps
The Explosion
Toads
Toads Revisited


Mahon, Derek

Courtyards in Delft


McGough, Roger


First Day At School
Goodbat Nightman
The Identification
Waving At Trains
You and I



McGuckian, Medbh

The Butterfly Farm


Milligan, Spike

On the Ning Nang Nong


Muldoon, Paul

Quoof



Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

The Swineherd


O'Brien, Sean

Rain


Olds, Sharon

The Connoisseuse Of Slugs



Raine, Craig

A Martian Sends a Postcard Home


Raleigh, Sir Walter

Sir Walter Raleigh to his Son


Ransom, John Crowe

Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
Necrological



Reid, Christopher

Tin Lily


Rossetti, Christina

Promises Like Pie-Crust


Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Love's Philosophy
Ozymandias



Simic, Charles

Two Dogs


Stickney, Trumbull

On Some Shells Found Inland


Tagore, Rabindranath

Gitanjali


Thomas, Dylan

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night



Vaughan, Henry

Peace
The Retreat
The Waterfall



Wordsworth, William

Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg


Wyatt, Sir Thomas

They Flee From Me


Yeats, W B

A Deep-Sworn Vow
An Acre Of Grass
After Long Silence
Among School Children
Leda and the Swan
The Tower
Two Songs From A Play