Read the following poems:
Alter Ego
At the Water’s Edge
The Glass Jar
A Postcard
‘I am the Captain of My Soul’
The Waldstein
Prize-Giving
Boundary Conditions
Triste, Triste
In the Park
O Could One Write As One Makes Love
At the Arts Club
Ebb-tide
Burning Sappho
In Brisbane
Estuary
Alla Siciliana
New Music
To A.D. Hope
Content Summary for Teachers
Alter Ego
The speaker thinks of themselves while practicing Mozart.
At the Water’s Edge
The speaker feeds a gull and thinks about the nature of truth.
The Glass Jar
A child hopes to capture sunlight in a jar to help him deal with his fear of the dark. When he wakes up from a bad dream that night, he opens the jar but no sunlight comes out. In...
