Dr Ian Inkster Poems

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
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West Virginia, Trumpland (after John Denver)


Jobs are dying, West Virginia
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Annabel Lee, VERSE BY Edgar Allen Poe [ballad]
It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,
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Break My Chain (Anon England,1830s)

Sweet master, break my gallingchains,
And set your prisoner free;
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There's A Good Time Coming [1846, John Mackay]


THERE 's a good time coming, boys.
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She stood upon the castle wall, Oriana:
She watch'd my crest among them all, Oriana:
She saw me fight, she heard me call,
When forth there stept a foeman tall, Oriana,
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I the scriptures have fulfilled
Though a wicked life I led
When the naked I beheld
I've clothed them and fully fed;
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far asI could
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Emigrants 1851
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We'll not forget you mother
In the land that's far away
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Emigrants 1851
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We'll not forget you mother
In the land that's far away
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