Fabulous Steeds
This week’s poem is “The Horses” by Edwin Muir, and I have chosen it to reflect the current world situation.
Feats of Arms
This week’s choice is “Faithless Nelly Gray” by Thomas Hood, a tour-de-force in double meanings and puns.
A Famous Victory
This week’s choice is another anti-war poem to mark the continuing invasion of Ukraine. It is After Blenheim by Robert Southey.
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.