DESERT ISLAND POEMS

When I thought about compiling my Desert Island Poems I knew immediately of seven poems I would choose – and more to the point why I would choose them.

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The remaining poems were pooled from around twenty and it took several hours to finally settle on which three to take with me. It was certainly not an easy task, but in the end I went with the following:

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Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

Silver by Walter De La Mare

To a Mouse by Robert Burns

If by Rudyard Kipling

So We'll Go No More A Roving by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Futility by Wilfred Owen

Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare

Liesure by William Henry Davies

Lochinvar by Sir Walter Scott

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Please bear in mind that the order above does not reflect an order of preference. That would be too great a task.

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If you wish to read through the poems, along with a few notes I've made on them, you can do by clicking on the Start button at the bottom of the page. 

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I do hope you enjoy my choices and I challenge you to select your own Desert Island Poems.

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