Ted Hughes

(1930 - 1998 / West Yorkshire / England)

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Ted Hughes Poems

  • Lovesong  He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked ...
  • Hawk Roosting  I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes ...
  • Wind  This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods...
  • Bride And Groom Lie Hidden For...
  • The Thought-Fox  I imagine this midnight moment's ...
  • Full Moon And Little Frieda  A cool small evening shrunk to a ...
  • Daffodils  Remember how we picked the daffodils? Nobody else...
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Ted Hughes is consistently described as one of the twentieth century’s greatest English poets. Born August 17th, 1930 in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, his family moved to Mexborough when he was seven to run a newspaper and tobacco shop. He attended Mexborough grammar school, and wrote his first poems from the age of fifteen, some of which made their way into the school magazine. Before beginning English studies at Cambridge University (having won a scholarship in 1948), he spent much of his National service time reading and rereading all of Shakespeare. According to report, he could recite it all by heart. At Cambridge, he he 'spent most..time reading folklore and Yeat's poems,' and switched from ... more »

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  • Anonymous (4/21/2018 2:10:00 AM)

    Its not really good

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  • lloolllljjjuu (4/6/2018 5:38:00 AM)

    cool stuff man i really liked it thanks

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  • vinay kumar (3/28/2018 1:44:00 AM)

    very nice the poem of hawk roosting

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  • hugh jars (3/26/2018 8:19:00 PM)

    i quite like these poems, they really butter my croissonntt

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  • saphire battersea (3/25/2018 12:16:00 PM)

    ted had a super hard life but was very brave.

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  • saphire battersea (3/25/2018 12:15:00 PM)

    Ted had a hard life but was very brave.

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  • zaid sami (3/5/2018 3:18:00 AM)

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  • Pj boi (2/27/2018 10:00:00 PM)

    I am usin this app because of my teacher: (

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  • nazir (2/16/2018 11:26:00 PM)

    need poems for research

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Lovesong

He loved her and she loved him.
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains

Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing ...

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