Abiku by Wole Soyinka
In vain your bangles cast Charmed circles at my feet; I am Abiku, calling for the first And the repeated time. Must I weep for goats and cowries For … Continue reading Abiku by Wole Soyinka
Tag: Poetry
New Magic
By Kenneth Slessor At last I know—it’s on old ivory jars,Glassed with old miniatures and garnered once with musk. I’ve seen those eyes like smouldering April starsAs carp might see them … Continue reading New Magic
Ode to the Nightingale
By John Keats My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards … Continue reading Ode to the Nightingale
America
By Walt Whitman Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,A … Continue reading America
The Calm by John Donne
English Poet
The sun rising
The Sun Rising by John Donne
The Casualties
By John Pepper Clerk The casualties are not only those who are dead; They are well out of it. The casualties are not only those who are wounded, Though they … Continue reading The Casualties
Life: A Rolling Stone
by Kuma Raj Subedi Be it a chilling winter- Where it gets frost bitten or Numbness preventing the actual feel of things, Foggy air causing the far-sightedness, Sharp glass like … Continue reading Life: A Rolling Stone
The Waste Land
by T.S Elliot I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept … Continue reading The Waste Land
He “had not where to place his head.”
Frances Harper The conies had their hiding place, The Willy fox with stealthy tread. A covert found but Christ, the Lord had not a place to lay his head. The … Continue reading He “had not where to place his head.”
The Present Age
By Frances Herper Say not the age is hard and cold- I think it brave and grand; When men of diverse sects and creeds Are clasping hand in hand. The Parsee from his … Continue reading The Present Age
A Boys Heart
By Madison Cawein It’s out and away at break of day,To frolic and run in the sun-sweet hay: It’s up and out with a laugh and shoutLet the old world … Continue reading A Boys Heart
The Fable of Salem
By John William De Forest “come quickly!” Wept the dying Grace; “Abide with me my Pator, then I might finish well the race, And mount and fly the faster; Then … Continue reading The Fable of Salem
A Red Red Rose
By Robert Burns
The Pig
By Roald Dahl In England once there lived a bigAnd wonderfully clever pig.To everybody it was plainThat Piggy had a massive brain.He worked out sums inside his head,There was no … Continue reading The Pig
