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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!
Grief was the mainmast
Weary with serving where I nought could get Weary with serving where I nought could get, I thought to cross great Neptune’s greatest seas, To live in exile; but my drift was let By cruel fortune, spiteful of such ease. The ship I had to pass in was my mind, Greedy desire was topsail […]
MoreA cloud of dark disdain
I was so excited recently to visit the exhibition from the National Portrait gallery on display at Montecute House in Somerset. A favourite poet of mine, Sir Thomas Wyatt was an Tudor adventurer, soldier and maybe spy, was on display – not the man himself, obviously but two portraits which I had only ever seen in books or […]
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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 […]
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Lois Elsden 