'Daily' poetry snippets
Occasionally topical, usually not-but-whatever-my-brain-latches-onto, snippets of poetry (with the occasional song lyric/blank verse thrown in) short enough to fit in a tweet.
Note the air quotes around 'Daily'.
Curated by @doremus-schafer.bsky.social
- But if they tear the Charter, let the tocsin speak for me! Let the wooden sign above your shop be prouder to be scarred Than the lion-shield of Lancelot that hung at Joyous Garde. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_(...
- But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, Shall they thrust for high employments as of old? Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour: When the storm is ended shall we find How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power By the favour and contrivance of their kind?
- It was our fault, and our very great fault—and now we must turn it to use. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_l...
- Calamity about him cries davidsuttonpoetry.com/2023/07/21/w...