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Ford Madox Ford: three poems from the author of The Good Soldier
In Tenebris All within is warm, Here without it’s very cold, Now the year is grown so old And the dead leaves swarm. In your heart is light, Here without ...
Charles Hughes: Child’s Play
Child’s Play “Back in the day, . . . almost every boy would come to school . . . with . . . marbles (small colorful glass orbs about three-quarters ...
Robert Service: British-Canadian known as “the Bard of the Yukon”
The Passing of the Year My glass is filled, my pipe is lit, My den is all a cosy glow; And snug before the fire I sit, And wait to ...
A poem for the new year by Reader poetry editor Joseph O’Brien
For Cecilia It’s a party like any other We’ve ever been wallpapered and rugged Into — the food and drink disarrayed, the bother And mess left behind in the hosts’ ...
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