Favourite Poems

James Blunt

by Ron Foreman May 5, 2006 Favourite Poems

“No Bravery” There are children standing here, Arms outstretched into the sky, Tears drying on their face. He has been here. Brothers lie in shallow graves. Fathers lost without a trace. A nation blind to their disgrace, Since he’s been here. And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness. Houses [...]

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William Wordsworth

by Ron Foreman March 28, 2006 Favourite Poems

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in [...]

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Emily Dickinson

by Ron Foreman March 28, 2006 Favourite Poems

A train went through a burial gate, A bird broke forth and sang, And trilled, and quivered, and shook his throat Till all the churchyard rang; And then adjusted his little notes, And bowed and sang again. Doubtless, he thought it meet of him To say good-by to men. Emily Dickinson

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