Chinua Achebe
Flying BY Chinua Achebe (for Niyi Osundare) Something in altitude kindles power-thirst Mere horse-height suffices the emir Bestowing from rich folds of prodigious turban...
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Robert Burns
Tam O ‘Shanter Written By Robert Burns When chapman billies leave the street, And drouthy neebors neebors meet, As market-days are wearing late, And...
Analysis
Morte d’Arthur describes the demise of the great British king, Arthur, and Bedivere’s depositing of Arthur’s sword, Excalibur, in the lake from which Arthur...
Kofi Awoonor
Lament of the Silent Sisters Written By Kofi Awoonor (For Chris Okigbo, the well-known poet, killed in 1967 in the Nigerian civil war). That...
Written Poetry
A Moment Before We Apart Written By Poet Nazir We have just a little time to talk From the very soul that loved you...
Kofi Awoonor
The Weaver Bird Written By Kofi Awoonor The weaver bird built in our house And laid its eggs on our only tree. We did...
Poet Nazir
Arise Ghana Youth For Your Country Written By Poet Nazir Arise Ghana youth for your country Your nation is now dressed in a tattered...
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Late, Late, so Late Written By Alfred, Lord Tennyson Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill! Late, late, so late! but...
G. K. Chesterton
A Marriage Song Written By G. K. Chesterton Why should we reck of hours that rend While we two ride together? The heavens rent...
William Carlos Williams
Complete Destruction Written By William Carlos Williams It was an icy day. We buried the cat, then took her box and set fire to...