Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup There’s an unmade sand track off the only sealed section of the Dalkeith Road where an untidy corner of rolled rusty wire...
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Flannan Isle Though three men dwell on Flannan Isle To keep the lamp alight, As we steered under the lee, we caught No glimmer through...
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Fields of Athenry By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling ‘Michael, they have taken you away, For you stole Trevelyan's...
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John Berryman Dream Song 108 Sixteen below. Our cars like stranded hulls litter all day our little Avenues. It was 28 below. No one goes...
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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light...
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Jon Silkin Death of a Son who died in a mental hospital aged one Something has ceased to come along with me. Something like a person:...
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Rodney Hall Dark Afternoons She Spent Dark afternoons she spent discovering again old roads, now grassed, that led from town through...
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Philip Larkin Church Going Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting,...
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A B (Banjo) Paterson Clancy of the Overflow I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him...
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e e cummings [Buffalo Bill 's] Buffalo Bill ’s defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break...
