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VARIOUS ARTISTS

The Gift of Poetry

VARIOUS ARTISTS

38 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 16 MINUTES • APR 20 2018

1
W.H.Auden: The Night Mail
02:13
2
Laurie Lee: April
01:21
3
Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol
06:34
4
Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose
00:46
5
e.e.cummings: Sweet Spring
01:05
6
e.e.cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
01:20
7
e.e.cummings: The Moon Looked into my Window
01:04
8
Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays
01:04
9
Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend
01:52
10
Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme
02:08
11
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior
02:34
12
Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights
02:48
13
Thomas Hardy: The Voice
00:54
14
John Clare: Autumn
00:47
15
Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
00:58
16
Walter Raleigh: Nymph’s Reply
01:13
17
Bishop Henry King: from Exequy on his Wife
00:39
18
William Dunbar: from Lament of the Makers
00:45
19
Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
02:33
20
John Betjeman: The Church’s Restoration
01:14
21
John Betjeman: Olympic Girl
01:26
22
John Betjeman: Seaside Golf
01:07
23
John Betjeman: Business Women
01:00
24
John Betjeman: Indoor Games near Newbury
02:25
25
John Betjeman: How to get on in Society
00:55
26
John Betjeman: Licorice Fields at Pontefract
01:29
27
A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning
00:42
28
John Betjeman: Death at Leamington
01:27
29
Coventry Patmore: The Toys
01:54
30
T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat
03:09
31
Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake
01:10
32
Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (extract)
02:34
33
Wm Shakespeare: On her Reign (from Henry VIII)
01:18
34
Shakespeare: ‘Dirge for Fidele’ from Cymbeline (Fear no more the Heat of the Sun...)
01:31
35
William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality
11:01
36
John Donne: A Devotion (No Man is an Island)
04:10
37
Langston Hughes: Freedom Train
02:53
38
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
02:48
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