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‘Autumn Fades’ and Other Poetry on Death by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
August 30, 2024
Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle
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. Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll see them all in Heaven,” so they say. The decades start to dwindle, day by day. Time...

‘Colors’ by Kukai, Translated by Joshua C. Frank

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July 18, 2024
Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Translation
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. Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in final hours, Extinguished, gone, returning never. No earthborn life can last...

‘Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness’: An Alliterative Poem by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 2, 2024
Alliterative, Beauty, Education, Poetry
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. Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness …the wildrenesse of Wyrale; wonde ther bot lyte That auther God other gome with gode hert louied. (…the wilderness of Wirral; few wandered there Who loved with good...

A Video Excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Reading, by Andrew Benson Brown

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December 27, 2023
Alliterative, Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings
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. https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Free PDF

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November 6, 2021
Alliterative, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry
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Following the introduction below is a translated version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in PDF made free for download for teachers, students, and interested readers by the Society of Classical Poets. It...

An Arthurian Interlude in Alliterative Verse, by Rahul Gupta

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April 4, 2020
Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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    Rahul Gupta holds a PhD for a thesis on mediaeval Germanic and modern mediaevalist metre and poetics from the University of York. His poetry and translations have appeared hitherto in Agenda,...
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‘Dunblane Cathedral’: A Poem on the 20th Anniversary of a Massacre, by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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March 26, 2016
Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. Dunblane Cathedral On the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher at the Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, March 13, 1996 LOVE’s light lost the bleak night breathes a black breeze of...

‘Lepanto’: Poem by G.K. Chesterton

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August 19, 2012
Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. Lepanto Editor's Note: Don John of Austria, or Don Juan de Austria, (1547-1578) was half-brother to King Philip II of Spain and a Spanish military commander who achieved victory over the Turks in the...
  1. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘The Prayer Blanket’: A Poem Based on the Real Experience of Tim CassarJune 22, 2025

    A powerful account of a man's near-death experience. Since this is a true narrative that was presented to Brian, the…

  2. Roy Eugene Peterson on ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ by Rilke and ‘Reconciliation’ by Goethe, Translated by Josh OlsonJune 22, 2025

    Great interpretations of two wonderful classics, Josh. Love and music do indeed go together and fortify each other.

  3. James A. Tweedie on ‘Get Along, Little DOGE-ie’ and Other Social Commentary Poetry by James A. TweedieJune 22, 2025

    Toodle pip and g’die t’ yer too, guv’nor!

  4. Eric O Owen on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionJune 22, 2025

    Eric Owen Never have I been where hot springs peep through the soil Even in winter Verdant rolling hills Geothermal…

  5. Martha Carey on ‘Lepanto’: Poem by G.K. ChestertonJune 22, 2025

    Many years ago, I well remember hearing a gifted 14 yr. old girl recite every line of this poem by…

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