Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled
how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.
byRudyard Kipling1865-1936
Poets and Poetry
O, You Hard Hearts!
Marullus was disgusted at the way that the fickle people of Rome
turned so easily from one hero to another.
byWilliam Shakespeare1564-1616
Poets and Poetry
The Dog and the Water Lilies
William Cowper told Lady Hesketh about a walk beside the
river at Olney, and the affecting behaviour of his spaniel Beau.
byWilliam Cowper1731-1800
Poets and Poetry
On Westminster Bridge
On his way to war-torn France, William Wordsworth passed through London
and was overwhelmed by the quiet of the early morning.
byWilliam Wordsworth1770-1850
Poets and Poetry
The Time of Age
Seventeenth-century poet and statesman Edmund Waller
reflects on the benefits of advancing years.
byEdmund Waller1606-1687
Character and Conduct
Vice and Virtue
Vice is a fact of life, wrote Pope, and God can even bring good out of it;
but vice is never a virtue and in tackling vice together we make our society stronger.