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Bridge Over The Aire Book 4

© Barry Tebb

THE LANDS OF MY CHILDHOOD

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The Brus Book VIII

© John Barbour


[The king in Kyle]

The king fra Schyr Aymer wes gane

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Incompatabilities

© Barry Tebb

For Brenda Williams

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To Brenda Williams ‘writing Against The Grain’

© Barry Tebb

It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his ‘Defence of Ignorance’ how many poets

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Of Bronze—and Blaze

© Emily Dickinson

My Splendors, are Menagerie—
But their Completeless Show
Will entertain the Centuries
When I, am long ago,
An Island in dishonored Grass—
Whom none but Beetles—know.

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The Singing School

© Barry Tebb

The Poetry School, The Poetry Book Society, The Poetry Business:

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Hughes’ Voice In My Head

© Barry Tebb

As soon as we crossed into Yorkshire

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On First Reading John Goodby’s ‘irish Poetry Since 1950’

© Barry Tebb

Barbarous insult to Yeats’ memory and Claudel’s

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Uncle Bob

© Barry Tebb

Shell-shocked from Korea

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Paradise Regain'd : Book II.

© John Milton

Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained

At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen

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Marginalia

© Barry Tebb

Here is a silence I had not hoped for

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An Address to the Steam Washing Company and Letter of Remonstrance from Bridget Jones to the Nobleme

© Thomas Hood

An Address to the Steam Washing Company
"For shame—let the linen alone!" M. W. of Windsor.

Mr. Scrub—Mr. Slop—or whoever you be!

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Don Juan: Canto The Fifteenth

© George Gordon Byron

Ah!--What should follow slips from my reflection;

  Whatever follows ne'ertheless may be

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Sleep On!

© William Schwenck Gilbert

Fear no unlicensed entry,

Heed no bombastic talk,

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Marmion: Introduction to Canto V.

© Sir Walter Scott

When dark December glooms the day,

And takes our autumn joys away;

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The Flower of Mending

© Vachel Lindsay


When Dragon-fly would fix his wings,
When Snail would patch his house,
When moths have marred the overcoat
Of tender Mister Mouse,

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The Wedding Sermon

© Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

"Now, while she's changing," said the Dean,

"Her bridal for her traveling dress,

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Our Guardian Angels and Their Children

© Vachel Lindsay

Where a river roars in rapids
And doves in maples fret,
Where peace has decked the pastures
Our guardian angels met.