Date: 1980
"The back of the mind is a small hotel / And when the residents go on picnics / Or take buckets and spades down to the sea / The betrayals begin."
preview | full record— Longley, Michael (b. 1939)
Date: w. 1702-1713, published 1989
"At modern Rome an easy Nymph was bred / In tender tales & soft Romances read / These on the brain a wild impression brought / & made her sure she saw what ere she thought."
preview | full record— Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718)