Tag Archives: Saturday Poem
Saturday Poem: ‘Christmas Eve’ by Anne Sexton
Saturday Poem: ‘Death Be Not Proud’ by John Donne
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Saturday Poem: ‘Grandeur of Ghosts’ by Siegfried Sassoon
Saturday Poem: ‘Winter: A Dirge’ by Robert Burns
Saturday Poem: ‘Retrospect’ by Rupert Brooke
And home at length under the hill!
Saturday Poem: ‘Evening’ by HD
Saturday Poem: ‘Marching’ by Isaac Rosenberg
Saturday Poem: ‘Fog’ by Louise Imogen Guiney
Like bodiless water passing in a sigh,
Thro’ palsied streets the fatal shadows flow,
And in their sharp disastrous undertow
Suck in the morning sun, and all the sky.
The towery vista sinks upon the eye,
As if it heard the Hebrew bugles blow,
Black and dissolved; nor could the founders know
How what was built so bright should daily die.
Thy mood with man’s is broken and blent in,
City of Stains! and ache of thought doth drown
The primitive light in which thy life began;
Great as thy dole is, smirchèd with his sin,
Greater and elder yet the love of man
Full in thy look, tho’ the dark visor’s down.