Sonnets

T. W. H. Crosland (c. 1865 - 1924)

This inspiring collection of sonnets from British author T.W.H. Crosland displays the creativity, keen powers of observation and the unsurpassed interpretive skills of a superb poet and student of human nature.

We hear in this varied compilation the assertions of a man both fascinated and perplexed by disparate social events that surround him. A man eager to scrutinize, note, and with a gift for poetic expression, put pen to paper in articulating his thoughts in words not only of majestic beauty but which portray the compassionate, humanitarian sentiments he possesses, sentiments which forever face the possibility of being buried beneath the minutiae of a mundane world.

In addition to keen observational powers of life around him, Crosland augments his work with thoughts that reflect an overwhelming insight into a world that is yet to be, one of shared destiny, of nemesis. One prominent unavoidable factor is death itself, and it is death whose lesson of "A cry, a rose, and - dust" governs the journey toward such "dust" of those travelers among us whose, "chill pomps and aching triumphs are won."

But the compelling factor that sets Crosland apart among poets is his empathy, his compassion for the common man and his realization that mankind's individual, at the time seemingly enormous contribution to a profound and unshakable overall scheme is forever condemned to play a miniscule role, "For our high souls are mirrors of Himself, / Though our great wonders are His littlest things."
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk

Genre(s): Single author

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 For Remembrance Bruce Kachuk
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Play 02 To A. D. Bruce Kachuk
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Play 03 For Algernon Charles Swinburne Bruce Kachuk
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Play 04 'Votes for Women' Bruce Kachuk
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Play 05 Death Bruce Kachuk
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Play 06 Leda Bruce Kachuk
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Play 07 The Baby in the Ward Bruce Kachuk
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Play 08 For H. M. C. Bruce Kachuk
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Play 09 Titanic Bruce Kachuk
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Play 10 After Bruce Kachuk
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Play 11 The 'Student' Bruce Kachuk
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Play 12 To a Certain Knight Bruce Kachuk
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Play 13 Ulster Bruce Kachuk
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Play 14 On the Death of Edward VII Bruce Kachuk
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Play 15 The Promise Bruce Kachuk
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Play 16 Mr. Asquith Wept Bruce Kachuk
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Play 17 Shepherd's Bush Bruce Kachuk
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Play 18 Freedom Bruce Kachuk
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Play 19 For a Rich Man who is said to 'Believe in Poetry' Bruce Kachuk
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Play 20 The End Bruce Kachuk
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