Thomas Hardy – The Wooer’s song

By Cecilia Brabin | January 31, 2012

Thomas Hardy – The Wooer’s song       Why be at pains? ( The wooer’s song)   Why be at pains that I should know You sought not me? Do breezes, then, make features glow So rosily? Come, the lit port is at our back, And the tantalising sea; Elsewhere the lampless uphill track…

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Thomas Hardy poetry

By Cecilia Brabin | September 29, 2009

Thomas Hardy (1840 -1928)   Thomas Hardy was born on Dorset, England. In his lifetime he had 14 novels and almost 1000 poems published. The majority of his work was set in the county of ‘Wessex’ which he created himself based mainly on the towns and villages of the South and West of England. Learn…

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She walks in beauty

By Cecilia Brabin | February 23, 2009

by Lord Byron 1788-1824         She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellow’d to the tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the…

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My Heart

By Cecilia Brabin | May 4, 2007

Tempestuous and tortured Unfeeling and apart Cold and undesirable is my frozen heart Unyielding and unmoving All kindness must depart For all is below zero in my frozen heart I will not love another. From this I will not stray. Deeply cold and frozen will my hard heart stay. Do not try to reach it,…

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