Beeny Cliff by Thomas Hardy

Tags: beauty, love, mortality, nostalgia, yearning

Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy

Tags: family, love, memories, nostalgia

The Catch by Simon Armitage

Tags: childhood, nostalgia

The Christmas Life by Wendy Cope

Tags: family, nostalgia

The Darling Letters by Carol Ann Duffy

Tags: desire, nostalgia, relationships

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

Tags: beauty, childhood, memories, nostalgia

Good Morrow by John Donne

Tags: love, nostalgia, relationships, sex

The Lake Isle of Innisfree by WB Yeats

Tags: faith, nostalgia, yearning

Summer With Monika (extract) by Roger McGough

Tags: love, nostalgia, relationships, sex

This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin

(Contains very strong language)

Tags: family, nostalgia, tradition

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Tags: journeys, mortality, nostalgia, regret