Poem of the Day: Luke Havergal
Half in love with easeful death . . .
Today’s Poem is a romantic embrace of suicide — in my view, the most beautiful suicide poem in the English language. Poems Ancient and Modern could have presented the poem in any season, simply because E.A. Robinson’s 1897 work is superior verse, and the beginning of an adult critical sense is the abili…
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