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Selection of Poems - 2022 - 24 Grade 9and 10
Selection of Poems - 2022 - 24 Grade 9and 10
Selection of Poems - 2022 - 24 Grade 9and 10
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
13. Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’
Margaret Atwood
THE PLANNERS
I grew as I explored
The body I could trust
Even while I adored
The risk that made robust,
A world of wonders in
Each challenge to the skin.
THOM GUNN
NIGHT SWEAT
ROBERT LOWELL
RAIN
EDWARD THOMAS
THE SPIRIT IS TOO BLUNT AN INSTRUMENT
ANNE STEVENSON
From LONG DISTANCE
Though my mother was already two years dead
Dad kept her slippers warming by the gas,
put hot water bottles her side of the bed
and still went to renew her transport pass.
TONY HARRISON
FUNERAL BLUES
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W H AUDEN
HE NEVER EXPECTED MUCH
THOMAS HARDY
THE TELEPHONE CALL
FLEUR ADCOCK
A CONSUMER’S REPORT
PETER PORTER
REQUEST TO A YEAR
JUDITH WRIGHT
ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.
STEVIE SMITH