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Section A: Poetry continued
From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 4, the following 15 poems:
Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’
Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’
Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’
James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’
Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’
Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’
Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’
Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’
A R D Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’
Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’
Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’
Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’
Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’
These may be found in Songs of Ourselves Volume 2: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English (Cambridge University Press). Poems printed in the paper will be as printed in this text.
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