Trivium Home School · The Muses
Great poems in English, from Keats and Tennyson to Yeats and Heaney, and one song that is a poem: read aloud, explained line by line, with the grammar that makes them sing.
A2–C2 · 14 songs (0 free) · All the Muses
Advanced lessons that read a song as literature: imagery, memory, and the language of analysis.
C1–C2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Inversion; the historic present; literary analysis
Van Morrison
A Belfast street remembered like a dream.
Great poems in English, from 1648 to 1966, each with the full text (where it is out of copyright), a glossary, a reading to listen to, and a gamebook. Some are advanced: C1 and C2 lessons are marked.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Inversion after place phrases; past perfect; heroism or futility
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Hear his own voice, recorded in 1890.
B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Similes; past and present simple; see + -ing
William Wordsworth
A crowd of golden daffodils, and the inward eye.
B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Like + noun; all that…; inner beauty
Lord Byron
First published as one of the Hebrew Melodies.
C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Questions to an object; paradox; for ever
John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: O for…!; the senses; dream or reality
John Keats
A bird’s song, grief, and Ruth amid the alien corn.
C1–C2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Describing miniatures; compound nouns; satire
Robert Herrick
A chapel built by fairies from nutshells and cobwebs.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Will for resolutions; poetic word order; alliteration
W. B. Yeats
Hear Yeats himself read it.
B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: When + present; imperatives; How many…, but one…
W. B. Yeats
A love poem for Maud Gonne.
C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Passive; while; inversion after hardly
W. B. Yeats
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
B1–B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: First conditional with long if-clauses; keep your head
Rudyard Kipling
A father’s advice to his son.
A2–B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Must never…; seems to have been; said he
A. A. Milne
A three-year-old in charge of his mother.
B2–C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Imperatives; comparatives; nature and the church
Austin Clarke
A blackbird tells Saint Patrick to stop and listen.
B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Restrained narrative; sympathy; understatement
Seamus Heaney
A boy comes home from school after his brother’s death.
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