The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently...
View ArticleThe Listeners
"Is anybody there?" said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door;And his horse in the silence chomped the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor.And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the...
View ArticleStop All the Clocks
Part 1 of this poem is particularly known for being read at the funeral in Four Weddings and a Funeral. You can see a clip here. IStop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,Prevent the dog from barking...
View ArticleOzymandias
I met a traveler from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and...
View ArticleLeisure
WHAT is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs,And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirrels hide...
View ArticleJabberwocky
’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son!The jaws that bite, the claws that...
View ArticleIf Only
Forever and a day, I will keep telling myself; if onlyIf only, I had not let pride carry me awayIf only, I had not let my ego get in the wayIf only, I had overcome the fear of giving too much of myself...
View ArticleGod’s Grandeur
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oilCrushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?Generations...
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There will be no equal pride as long as we are not equal.
A few weeks ago, Channel 4 asked me to participate in their 4Thought programme on being LGBT and Jewish (I’d previously sourced them a friend for a different theme) to coincide with London Pride. I...
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