Halfway Down (Pickled Poem Ep. 51)
"Halfway Down" by A. A. Milne Halfway down the stairsIs a stairWhere I sit.There isn't anyOther stairQuite likeIt.I'm not at the bottom,I'm not at the top;So this is the stairWhereI alwaysStop.Half...
26 Jul 20242min
Sea Fever (Pickled Poem Ep. 50)
"Sea Fever" by John Masefield I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and th...
19 Jul 20243min
Ozymandias (Pickled Poem Ep. 49)
"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sandHalf sunk a shattered vis...
12 Jul 20242min
The Swing (Pickled Poem Ep. 48)
"The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air ...
5 Jul 20242min
The Rainbow (Pickled Poem Ep. 47)
"The Rainbow" by Christina Georgina Rossetti Boats sail on the rivers, And ships sail on the seas;But clouds that sail across the sky Are prettier far than these. There are bridges on the rive...
28 Jun 20241min
A Tragic Story (Pickled Poem Ep. 46)
"A Tragic Story" by William Makepeace Thackeray There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed more,Because it hung behind him. He mused upon th...
21 Jun 20243min
I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Pickled Poem Ep. 45)
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake,...
14 Jun 20243min
Blow, Bugle, Blow (Pickled Poem Ep. 44)
"Blow, Bugle, Blow" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson The splendour falls on castle wallsAnd snowy summits old in story:The long light shakes across the lakes,And the wild cataract leaps in glory.Blow, bugle...
7 Jun 20243min
