IT’S NATIONAL POETRY Day so…
1. When night stirred at sea and the fire brought a crowd in...
The Planter's Daughter - Austin Clark
To An Athlete Dying Young - AE Housman
The Anniversary - John Donne


2. Unlucky the hero born in this province of the stuck record...
Poem 172 - Emily Dickenson
The Times are Tidy - Sylvia Plath
Child - Sylvia Plath


3. Yesterday, I knew no lullaby
Annabel Lee - Edgar Allen Poe
Child Of Our Time - Eavan Boland
The Shampoo - Elizabeth Bishop


4. Thou still unravished bride of quietness...
Ode On A Grecian Urn - John Keats
The Waste Land - TS Eliot
The Alligator Girls - W S Graham


5. I sat all morning in the college sick bay...
Mid Term Break - Seamus Heaney
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock - T S Eliot
Death Be Not Proud - John Donne


6. The eye can hardly pick them out from the cold shade they shelter in...
Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
At Grass - Philip Larkin


7. We have tested and tasted too much lover...
Advent - Patrick Kavanagh
Batter my heart, three person'd God - John Donne
Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats


8. Even now there are places where a thought might grow...
The Pomegranate - Eavan Boland
The Tollund Man In Springtime - Seamus Heaney
A Disused Shed in Co Wexford - Derek Mahon


9. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun...
Sonnet 130 - Shakespeare
Felix Randall - Gerard Manley Hopkins
For Rita With Love - Pat Ingoldsby


10. I will arise and go now...
Digging - Seamus Heaney
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - William Butler Yeats
The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room - Adrienne Rich



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