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Extracts from Poetry
What’s in a Name?
Juliet complains that the man she loves has the wrong name, and the man she loves hears her doing it.
Length: 111 words
The Beggar’s Petition
A destitute and friendless farmer, turned from the tradesman’s entrance, tries his luck at the front door.
Length: 120 words
Milton! Thou Shouldst be Living at this Hour
William Wordsworth comes back from France and realises with a shock what his own country has become.
Length: 57 words
Mary’s Lamb
A much-loved children’s poem, even if most of us struggle to remember more than a few lines.
Length: 60 words
Pater’s Bathe
A charming children’s rhyme that is also a test of the clearest speaker’s diction.
Length: 59 words
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem about a suicidal cavalry charge during the Battle of Balaclava on October 25th, 1854.
Length: 114 words