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Fear death? – to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power…
Read by Rupert Evans
I Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat – Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost…
Read by Jeremy Irons
I Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems and new! II…
Read by Robert Hardy
Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-West died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish ‘mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In…
Read by Poppy Miller & Monica Dolan
Which eye’s his eye? Which limb lies next the mirror? For neither is clearer nor a different color than the other, nor meets a stranger in this arrangement of leg…
Read by Harriet Walter & Charles Dance
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets to trains of light, now draw us into daylight in…
Read by Poppy Miller, Derek Jacobi, Alexandra Dowling + 1 other
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept…
We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship, although it meant the end of travel. Although it stood stock-still like cloudy rock and all the sea were moving marble. We’d…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern
Oh, but it is dirty! —‘this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that…
A new volcano has erupted, the papers say, and last week I was reading where some ship saw an island being born: at first a breath of steam, ten miles…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern, Monica Dolan & Felicity Jones
I A washing hangs upon the line, but it’s not mine. None of the things that I can see belong to me. The neighbors got a radio with an aerial;…
Read by Eileen Atkins, Felicity Kendal, Ralph Fiennes + 2 others
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or…
