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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Do not go gentle into that good night : Dylan Thomas : : Fathers Poems : :
Do not go gentle into that good nightDylan Thomas – 1914-1953 Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentleContinue reading “Do not go gentle into that good night : Dylan Thomas : : Fathers Poems : :”