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  • The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

    The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

    I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death    Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death    Rode the six hundred. II “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew […]

  • My Heart Leaps Up

    My Heart Leaps Up

    My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky – William Wordsworth

  • All the world’s a stage by William Shakespeare

    All the world’s a stage by William Shakespeare

    All the World’s a Stage “All the world’s a stage” is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII Line 139. The speech compares the world to a stage and life to a play and catalogs the seven […]

  • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) by William Wordsworth

    I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) by William Wordsworth

    “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (also commonly known as “Daffodils”) is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a “long belt” of daffodils. Wordsworth wrote the poem in 1804 and was published in 1807. A […]