Poems

I’ve always written poetry… but far too feeble to share! However, as I also love other people’s poetry, I can at least share some of my favourite poems… and perhaps give some insight why I like them and they are important to me!

The azure-coloured gates

Poems by LoisSeptember 13, 2016September 13, 2016

Chasms of the wasted past

Poems by LoisSeptember 6, 2016

It was no dream

Poems by LoisAugust 27, 2016August 27, 2016

Remote from smoky cities

Poems by LoisAugust 24, 2016August 20, 2016

Poems by LoisAugust 19, 2016

To fairies couched on bubbles round the pool

An isle of trees full foliaged in a meadow, Along whose quiet grassy shores below The white sheep bathe in level lengths of shadow, And sweet airs amiable as summer blow Warmly and faint among the happy leaves, Loving each other in a green repose Folded; or waking in the slumbrous glow Where the wind […]

Moon pale, purple, jet, and blue

Poems by LoisAugust 15, 2016August 10, 2016

Grey noons by the old canal

Poems by LoisAugust 9, 2016

Poems by LoisAugust 8, 2016

Come from the meadows green

The Irish poet Thomas Caulfield Irwin, born in 1823, is largely forgotten. He was born in Warrenpoint in County Down, Ireland, the son of a doctor; his family were very wealthy and it seems he was one of those young gentlemen who completed their education by travelling on the continent with a private tutor, and he even went […]