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    Not Daffodils
    Not Daffodils
    Not Daffodils
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    Not Daffodils

    By Edith Bright-Butler

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    The first poem I remember writing was school work at the age of ten, about King Canute. The teacher, I think, felt like the King, unable to hold back the tide. The stanzas, like waves, kept coming. Later, English was my main subject in which I got a Degree. However, I chose to teach juniors rather than English at a higher level, perhaps fearing frustration? If anyone asked me the question they asked Mr. Chipping, I would have answered as he did Hundreds of themand all boys. I had a memorable experience at a Summer School at Reading University when I recited two of my bereavement poems. You wont cry, will you? the tutor asked me beforehand. No, I replied, But they will, I could have added with hindsight Every cloud can have a silver liningyes, a good poem. It is good to make people laugh and I do like to, but I prefer the salt in tearscrisps and salted peanuts rather than jelly or sweet biscuits at a party. However, in Not Daffodils, I have, as it were, held a mirror to a known poem and reflect its beautyas in Lea-Creaver and Shut Outor, more often, humorously to distort it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateMay 31, 2011
    ISBN9781499096699
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      Not Daffodils - Edith Bright-Butler

      Copyright © 2011 by Edith Bright-Butler.

      ISBN:       Softcover       978-1-4535-5638-2

                        eBook           978-1-4990-9669-9

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 04/02/2015

      Xlibris

      800-056-3182

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      300821

      CONTENTS

      Daffodils By William Wordsworth

      Gaggaphiles In Imitation of Wordsworth

      Come into the Garden, Maud

      By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Come Out to the Garden Claud

      In the Mode of Tennyson’s

      Come into the garden, Maud.

      Peace Prayer of St. Francis

      The Heavenly Orchestra

      In Imitation of St. Francis

      A Red Red Rose Robert Burns

      A Dead, Dead, Rose

      In Apposition to Robert Burns

      Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death

      By Roger McGough

      Let Me Die an Old Saint’s Death

      (In Contradiction of Roger McGough)

      When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly

      By Oliver Goldsmith

      When Feisty Woman Wields Her Brolly

      In Imitation of Oliver Goldsmith

      Break, Break, Break Alfred Lord Tennyson

      Creak, Creak, Creak (With echoes of

      Alfred Lord Tenyson)

      To Lucasta, On Going To The Wars

      By Colonel Francis Lovelace

      To Lucasta, On Going To Honor Moor

      A misunderstanding of On Going to The Wars

      The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,

      By Christopher Marlowe

      The Importunate Shepherd to His Choice

      Akin to The Passionate Shepherd To His Love

      By Christopher Marlowe

      The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tenyson

      The Soldier With apologies and thanks

      to Alfred Lord Tennyson for The Eagle

      Song and Chorus

      By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

      Song and Chorus In Imitation of Sheridan

      A Birthday By Christina Rossetti

      A Deathday In Apposition to

      Christina Rossetti’s Birthday

      Leisure By W. H. Davies

      Pleasure In sympathy with W.H.Davies

      Sea Fever By John Masefield

      Lea-Craver In Reminiscence of John Masefield

      Triumph of Death

      By William Shakespeare

      Triumph of Death In Contradiction

      of William Shakespeare

      My Mistress’ Eyes By William Shakespeare

      My Lover’s Eyes In imitation of

      Shakespeare’s My Mistress’ Eyes

      Shall I compare thee… ? By William Shakespeare

      Shall I compare thee… ?

      In Apposition to William Shakespeare

      Shut Out By Christina Rossetti

      Shut Out (By Executor and Agents)

      In Total Empathy with Christina Rossetti

      of the same title.

      If By Rudyard Kipling

      If In Imitation of Rudyard Kipling

      Conversation Gallante

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