Poetry on the Passing of the Poet’s Wife, Part II, by Peter Hartley The Society September 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments No Longer There I wonder if a change has come about. No longer do I feel that she is there As physical a being in her chair To me as I to...
‘The Taj Mahal’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society August 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 44 Comments Taj Mahal Built to commemorate a love that died Four hundred years ago, how sad to say She never saw what we can see today. Serenely does...
Poetry on the Passing of the Poet’s Wife, by Peter Hartley The Society July 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments Coming Home “Thank you for letting me come home,” she said To me the night she died, and I, tongue-tied, I could not answer her. I...
Sonnets on the Music of Bach, Handel, and Mendelssohn, by Peter Hartley The Society June 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 30 Comments “Laudamus te” from J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass This aria so beautifully sung, Its obbligato part ethereal; Such coloratura from one so...
‘The Rats of Kathmandu’: Two Sonnets by Peter Hartley The Society May 16, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local time began, Been treated...
‘Saint John Southworth’ by Peter Hartley The Society April 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 41 Comments So here he lies as he has lain in state These ninety years in this cathedral crypt At Westminster. We come to venerate The relics of a...
On a Bereavement: Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society February 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments On a Bereavement I Mourning Sickness Can anybody say how long it lasts, This numbness that deceives while it relieves The harrowed brain? My...
‘The Plight of Animals’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society November 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 94 Comments The Plight of Animals The plight of animals, how must it be Ordained thus, either by a just God or A merciful? By nature meek and poor, They...
Sonnets on the Four Seasons and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society October 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Spring In spring the crocuses broke out as bold As brass from refuge in their barren clay. They speared the air in colourful array And blazoned...
‘Of All God’s Living Creatures’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society September 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Of All God’s Living Creatures Of all God’s living creatures only we With subtle artifice create our style Of dress and image, and with...
The Remote Islands of Scotland: Six Poems by Peter Hartley The Society August 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments I. The Evacuation of St Kilda The remote island community on St Kilda had existed for thousands of years in considerable hardship until, from the...
Two Poems on Dogs by Peter Hartley The Society July 15, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say They think of very little else all day But...
Six Clerihews by Peter Hartley The Society June 1, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms 38 Comments The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will usually introduce the name of a...
Five Sonnets on World War I by Peter Hartley The Society April 23, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments Gallipoli, 1915 There are none left on earth can ever tell At first hand of this mortal waste of war Hard-fought one hundred years ago and...
‘The Fate of Fine Art’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society March 6, 2019 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The Fate of Fine Art Too late to turn the clock back on fine art, Egregious oxymoron that it may Be called today, but where to find the...
‘Reinigeadal, Harris’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society February 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Reinigeadal, Harris So many years ago it was, a child Tramped up from East Loch Tarbert’s rocky shore Across the peat hags underneath...
Sonnets on the Arts Today, by Peter Hartley The Society January 5, 2019 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 38 Comments Poetry Today If elevated thought had ever beenThe least criterion of excellenceIn poetry, why should it then be seenToday as...
The Society of Classical Poets Releases Journal VIII The Society June 12, 2020 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that...
Announcing the 2019 Poetry Competition Winners The Society February 1, 2019 For Educators, From the Society, News of Note, Poetry, Poetry Contests 13 Comments Thank you to everyone who participated! We have had more quality submissions this year than in any past year and it has been a privilege to read and...
Journal VII Released The Society May 24, 2019 From the Society, News of Note, Poetry 3 Comments We are pleased to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets’ Journal VII. The new journal is larger and more impressive than any...
