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[excerpt] V While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high…
[excerpt] ‘What Power delights to torture us? I know That to myself I do not wholly owe What now I suffer, though in part I may. Alas! none strewed sweet…
Read by Freddie Fox, Lily James, Elizabeth McGovern + 5 others
Written on the occasion of the massacre at Manchester I As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth…
I The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single;…
Read by Lily James, Freddie Fox, Elizabeth McGovern + 5 others
[excerpt] XXXVI Our Adonais has drunk poison – oh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life’s early cup with such a draught of woe? The nameless worm would now…
[excerpt] … The wild dance maddens in the van, and those Who lead it – fleet as shadows on the green, Outspeed the chariot, and without repose Mix with each…
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter…
Read by Harriet Walter, Poppy Miller, Elizabeth McGovern + 4 others
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and raspberries, Bloom-down-cheeked…
Read by Harriet Walter
Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who lurked to spy and peer. Cold he lies,…
I never said I loved you, John: Why will you teaze me day by day, And wax a weariness to think upon With always “do” and “pray”? You know I…
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern
I love and love not: Lord, it breaks my heart To love and not to love. Thou veiled within Thy glory, gone apart Into Thy shrine, which is above, Dost…
