Cep's Poetry Notes

Cep's Poetry Notes

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Cep's Poetry Notes episodes

  • "The Tiger"

    William Blake (1757-1827) included his famous description of a fearsome feline and its genesis in his collection Songs of Experience.



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    2 min
  • "Summer Rain"

    William Cox Bennett (1820-1895) celebrates the benefits of timely precipitation.



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    2 min
  • "On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey"

    Playwright Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) reflects on the dust that was human glory in one of the more magnificent of the world’s sepulchers in London.



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    2 min
  • "The Picket-Guard"

    Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879) describes the last evening of an American Civil War Union soldier in her best-known poem.



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    4 min
  • "The First Gray Hair"

    Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) describes a major crisis in a woman’s life: when she finds her first gray hair. She realizes death approaches and she’s no longer a belle.



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    5 min
  • "The Dead Bee"

    Fletcher Bates (1831-1903) compares poets to productive insects, whose contributions may be minute, but are nonetheless valuable.



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    2 min
  • "Beauties of Morning"

    James Beattie (1735-1803) describes a bucolic village morning almost three hundred years ago; so many natural sounds!



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    3 min
  • "To Freedom"

    Joel Barlow (1754-1812) preaches what he practiced—that freedom leads to equality, social and economic justice, and general blessing.



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    3 min
  • "The Covered Bridge"

    David Barker (1816-1874), a now-forgotten American poet, compares the tomb to a covered bridge.



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    2 min

About Cep's Poetry Notes

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A daily selection from an obscure or famous poet with remarks.