See a Little Child
This week’s choice is from “A Child’s Garden of Verses” by Robert Louis Stevenson who is perhaps better known for his novels “Treasure Island”, “Kidnapped” and “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”.
Did One But Know!
This week’s poem is a sonnet by Christina Rossetti that marks the moment of first meeting.
Our Fearful Trip
This week’s poem is by Walt Whitman and is a coda to last week’s choice in that it references the end of another bloody conflict: the American Civil War.
Because Our Fathers Lied
This week’s selection of poems by Rudyard Kipling marks Remembrance Day.
All My Life and Longer
This week’s poem is taken from “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas and is a tribute to Llareggub, the Reverend Eli Jenkins’ home.
A Fiery Furnace Red
The full title of this poem is “A Ballad, Shewing How An Old Woman Rode Double, And Who Rode Before Her” and it is by Robert Southey.
A Hand to Those in Need
This week’s poem is by Robert W. Service, a British-Canadian writer who is better known for his longer poems, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee”.
Realio, Trulio
This week’s poem by Ogden Nash tells the tale of a coward who, when his family is threatened, has the courage to defeat the threat.
A Fluent Liar
This week’s poem is by Rudyard Kipling and is a commentary on the jaundiced view of nineteenth century British M.P.s held by administrators of the Empire’s eastern dependencies.