The cardboard shows me how it was When the two girl cousins went paddling Each one holding one of my mother’s hands, And she the big girl – some twelve years or so. All three stood still to smile through… Read More »A Photograph by Shirley Toulson
Is there a whim-inspired fool,Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool,Let him draw near;And owre this grassy heap sing dool,And drap a tear. Is there a bard of rustic song,Who, noteless, steals… Read More »A Bard’s epitaph by Robert Burns
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand, dare seize the fire? And… Read More »The Tyger by William Blake
When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry ” ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep! ‘weep!”So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his… Read More »The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o’er the mead;Gave thee clothing of delight,Softest clothing wooly bright;Gave thee such a tender voice,Making all the vales rejoice! Little Lamb who… Read More »The Lamb by William Blake
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm’ring landscape on the sight, And all the air… Read More »Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,And spills the upper boulders in the sun;And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.The work of hunters is another thing:I have come after them and made repairWhere… Read More »Mending Wall by Robert Frost
1Cain lifts Crow, that heavy black birdand strikes down Abel. Damn, says Crow, I guessthis is just the beginning. 2The white man, disguisedas a falcon, swoops inand yet again steals a salmonfrom Crow’s talons. Damn, says Crow, if I could… Read More »Crow Testament by Sherman Alexie
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings,Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun,For my mean Pen are too superior things;Or how they all, or each their dates have run,Let Poets and Historians set these forth.My obscure lines shall not so… Read More »The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai is a coming of age novel based on the theme of LGBT representation through English literature.The plot of Funny Boy revolves around the early years of little Arjun Chelvaratnam aka Arjie, who undergoes the realization… Read More »Funny Boy as a Buildungsroman novel
