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Read by Elizabeth McGovern
That silence is best: that action and re- Action are equal: that control, discipline, and Liberation are bywords when spoken by an appraiser, that the Accidental sometimes achieves perfection, loath…
“Attack is more piquant than concord,” but when You tell me frankly that you would like to feel My flesh beneath your feet, I’m all abroad; I can but put…
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset – that in view of the fact that spirit creates form we are justified in…
I like the mule: his sides are thin. He takes his ease in no man’s inn. When contrarieties are thick About his mind’s eye, he will kick; Men bewail their…
has not altered;— a place as kind as it is green, the greenest place I’ve never seen. Every name is a tune. Denunciations do not affect the culprit; nor blows,…
who likely were reluctant to be brave. Sitting by a slow fire on a waste of snow, I would last about an hour. Better not euphemize the grave. In this…
Read by Mark Strong & Monica Dolan
My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron composition by the incomparable wandering voice of Phèdre….
There were no undesirables or girls in my set, when I was a boy at Mattapoisett- only Mother, still her Father’s daughter. Her voice was still electric with a hysterical,…
Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming in pajamas fresh from the washer each morning, I hog a whole house on Boston’s “hardly passionate Marlborough Street,” where even the man scavenging filth…
Read by Charles Dance
Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a bishop. Her farmer is first selectman in our…
The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, rouses from the mare’s-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. He catwalks down our corridor. Azure day makes my agonized…
‘Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam.’ The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its…
