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Poetry offers so much pleasure and wisdom, but many of us loathe it because of the way poetry was taught to us at school. Whether or not that was your experience, dip into any of these fabulous websites and (re)discover the joys of reading poetry. Most of these sites also help us learn about the …
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Anglo-Saxon, 8th century, reputed to be the earliest Christian poem in English. Translated by Richard Hamer, 1970. Line numbers refer to the preceding line. The Dream of the Rood Hear while I tell about the best of dreamsWhich came to me the middle of one nightWhile humankind were sleeping in their beds.It was as though I …
Les Murray My half-buried timbers chained in corduroylead out into the sandwhich bare feet wincing Crutch and Crotchspurn for the summer surf’s embroideryand insects stay up on the land. A storm engrossing half the skyin broccoli and seething draband standing on one foot over the countryburrs like a lit torch. Lightningturns air to elixir at …
By John Updike Make no mistake: if He rose at allit was as His body;if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the moleculesreknit, the amino acids rekindle,the Church will fall. It was not as the flowers,each soft Spring recurrent;it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddledeyes of the eleven apostles;it was as …
by Carl Wendell Hines Jr. Now that he is safely dead, Let us praise him. Build monuments to his glory. Sing Hosannas to his name. Dead men make such convenient heroes. For they cannot rise to challenge the images That we might fashion from their lives. It is easier to build monuments Than to build …
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