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The Hag - by Robert Herrick

The hag is astride,
This night for to ride;
The devill and shee together;
Through thick, and through thin,
Now out, and then in,
Though ne’er so foul be the weather.

A Thorn or a Burr
She takes for a Spurre:
With a lash of a Bramble she rides now,
Through Brakes and through Bryars,
O’er Ditches and Mires,
She followes the Spirit that guides now.

The night is darkening around me - Emily Brontë

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me,
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
The storm is fast descending
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.

✨ ‘Jewels in my Hand’ by Sasha Moorsom (page 302)

🐊 ‘A September Night’ by George Marion McClellan (page 240 - 241)

⛄️ ‘Last Snow’ by Andrew Young (page 247)

🐘 ‘Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad’ by Sarojini Naidu

🐢 ‘From a Full Heart’ by A. A. Milne (page 224 - 226)

🐣 ‘Easter Monday’ by Eleanor Farjeon (page 230)

(The above are War poems)

🌹 ‘The Bridal Morn’ by Anonymous (page 190)

🪦 ‘Sonnet Written in the Churchyard at Middleton in Sussex’ by Charlotte Smith (page 208)

🎂 ‘A Birthday’ by Christina Rossetti (page 211)

🌰 ‘I Had a Little Nut Tree’ by Anonymous (page 213)

🌅 ‘Phoebus, Arise’ by William Drummond (page 166 - 167)

🌚 ‘Full Moon’ by Alice Oswald (page 174 - 175)

🌌 ‘The Unending Sky’ by John Masefield (page 178)

💫 ‘Bright Star’ by John Keats (page 180)

🦁 ‘Now the Hungry Lion Roars’ by William Shakespeare (page 186)

🧚 ‘Fairy Story’ by Stevie Smith (page 133)

🐈‍⬛ ‘On a Night of Snow’ by Elizabeth Coatsworth (page 137)

🫒 ‘Tuscan Olives’ by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Darmesteter (page 92 - 94)

🖼 ‘Juliet’ by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (page 73)

🎺 ‘Jazzonia’ by Langston Hughes (page 78)

🐴 ‘My Mother Said I Never Should’ by Anonymous (page 58)

🪨 ‘Eden Rock’ by Charles Causley (page 62)

Poems I like:

🦢 ’River’ by Carol Ann Duffy (page 42)

⛵️ ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ by W. B. Yeats (page 44 - 45)