Jeff Guess

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet XLIII How do I love thee? Let me count the ways How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee...

W B Yeats The Song of Wandering Aengus I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And...

Gus - The Theatre Cat Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really Asparagus. That's such...

Great Expectations 'Please, sir,' replied Oliver, 'I want some more.' Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught...

for HP, friend and colleague who first showed me this delightful poem some years ago High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of...

Goodbye So we must say Goodbye, my darling, And go, as lovers go, for ever; Tonight remains, to pack and fix on labels And make an end of...

For a Five-Year-Old A snail is climbing up the window-sill into your room, after a night of rain. You call me in to see, and I explain...

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...

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...

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...