Subjects

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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Daffodils

A poem about the blessing of fond memories.

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Love’s Last Knot

Richard Crashaw offers the hope of eternity for wedded love.

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‘I Remember’

A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.

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The Music of Silence

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

The glory of political power soon passes away.