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poetryben

Ben

I have no education to speak of ... but a sense of wonder and love of the English language. Web designer by day and poet by night.

Hertfordshire

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    John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale - part 2

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    John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale - part 1

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    #Keats ' well-known and well-loved #poem, the young man seems forlorn and weary of the world in this ode to fleeting #happiness and unobt...
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    August: Bliss Carmen

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    August. Here at last. Though it certainly doesn't feel like it!! This is the last in the series, taken from Diary of an Edwardian Lady, a...
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    July (3): 'Love in the Valley', G.Meredith

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    July's somber heat has burnt his way through, but the writers attentions are elsewhere in this meditative verse by overlooked Victorian p...
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    July (3): Jean Ingelow ... again!

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    Okay, Jean is bak again for this rather slower meditation. I think the wind has picked up a little more, cooling the July intensity. But ...
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    July (2): Spenser

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    As you can probably tell, I really love the alliteration in this poem by Spenser - sithe, side, wide - the power & passion is visceral an...
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    July (1): Jean Ingelow

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    Little ditty by Jean Ingelow, enjoying sweet sentiments on a warm July day - before the weather broke, no doubt. Dragon flies, jewelled q...
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    June(5): Matthew Arnold

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    Last one for #June, by Matthew Arnold, tquite a contrast to the previous poem, this one ruminates on the end of the day, love the line "t...
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    June (4): EB Browning, Trans. From Sappho

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    Elizabeth Browning's lovely take on this #emphatic #poem from #Sappho, Ho! The #Rose!
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    June (3): Norman Gale

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    Why turn to foreign lands, such as #Greece, when #Arcady exists in #Warwickshire?
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