To My Daughter in a Red CoatBY ANNE STEVENSON ( Cambridge, U K ) Late October. It is afternoon.My daughter and I walk through the leaf-strewnCorridors of the parkIn the light and the darkOf the elms’ thin arches. Around us brown leaves fall and spread.Small winds stir the minor dead.Dust powders the air.Those shrivelled womenContinue reading “Anne Stevenson’s To My Daughter in a Red Coat : Anne Stevenson : : October Poems : : Months Poems : :”
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Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :
Among School ChildrenBY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI I walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To study reading-books and history,To cut and sew, be neat in everythingIn the best modern way—the children’s eyesIn momentary wonder stare uponA sixty-year-old smiling public man. II IContinue reading “Among School Children : W B Yeats : : School Poems : :”
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