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Poets and Poetry
Passages from English verse, from Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, Kipling’s If and many more.
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‘I Remember’
By Thomas Hood
A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.
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The Music of Silence
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Coleridge’s epic poem, the Ancient Mariner, amid the horrors of a ship of dead men, sees a sight both beautiful and surreal.
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November
Humorist Thomas Hood obviously didn’t like to see the nights drawing in
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Ozymandias
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The glory of political power soon passes away.
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Unsung Heroes
By Thomas Gray
The poet reflects on the obscure lives that most of us lead.
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