Browse by Category

Poems of the day

• The After-Glow by Coventry Patmore 27 lines, 0 comments
• Hymn for Atonement Day by Yehudah ha-Levi 28 lines, 1 comment
• Blind by Harry Kemp 15 lines, 3 comments
• Frying Pan's Theology by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 24 lines, 3 comments

Essays

• SAINT AND SCARECROW -- The Life and Work of Lilian Bowes-Lyon by Howard Watson, from Old Poetry
  One-time Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis dedicated the title poem of his 1957 collection, Pegasus and other poems, to her memory, William Plomer wanted to marry her and Philip Larkin selected one of her more epic works for The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. Yet the life and work of Lilian Bowes-Lyon is largely forgotten and her novels and her collections of poetry remain out of print. Considering her literary – and royal – connections, as well as the success she achieved in her fairly brief life, cut tragically short by illness, the poetry of Lilian Bowes-Lyon is mostly an unknown pleasure. Her name is absent from national biographies of public or literary figures of the last century in British life. Yet in his recent biography of the late Queen Mother, there is no mention of Lilian, even though other members of her family are well represented.

Site Activity

• 
  6 hours ago
  Edit | Reply
  on A Lower Eastside Poem by Miguel Pinero, 6 hours ago

  civic pride?

  From guest PAUL FITZPATRICK (contact)
  MIGUEL WAS SO HONEST, ABOUT HIS LIFE, AND THE CITY HE LOVED. HIS WORDS SPEAK OF A STREETWISE TRUTH, THAT CAN ONLY BE OBTAINED BY LONG COLD NIGHTS THAT CHILL THE SOUL, AND HELLISH HOT NEW YORK DAYS. MUGGING,FUCKING,SHOOTIN' UP SMACK: ALL SINS, BUT MUCH BETTER THAN SLEEPWALKING THROUGH A LIFE.
• 
  9 hours ago
  Edit | Reply
  on On Messrs Hussey and Coffin by Phillis Wheatley, 9 hours ago

  So cool!

  From guest Kelly (contact)
  I came across Phillis Wheatley and this poem when doing research for Women's History Month. Having lived on Nantucket and therefore familiar with the subjects of this poem, I was more than intrigued! I am fascinated with the Island, and this new connection just adds to it!
• 
  9 hours ago
  Edit | Reply
  on A Dream Of Death by William Butler Yeats, 9 hours ago

  From guest please help me (contact)
  what drawing could i do for this poem?

Forums

• Poet & Poem Questions: No Subject by Reginald
• Poet & Poem Questions: Thanks for the input. I hope your pupils develop a taste for by I-Like-Rhymes
• Social: Sylvia Plath. by Aurelia Rose
• Poet & Poem Questions: old poem by kakja5
• Social: He tried to ignore the world. Stupid girl. by Rorshach
• Poet & Poem Questions: From the lines you offer I can find no trace of the poem and by I-Like-Rhymes