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The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat’ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor…
A flower was offer’d to me, Such a flower as May never bore; But I said ‘I’ve a pretty Rose-tree,’ And I…
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure…
The wild bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing. Now in a lily-cup, and now…
Read by Bob Geldof
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern, Michael Maloney, Guy Paul + 2 others
extract A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will…
Read by Sinéad Cusack & Patrick Kennedy
The light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle. But…
Read by Colin Salmon, Harriet Walter, Guy Paul + 6 others
Canto the First (excerpts) 65 Alfonso was the name of Julia’s lord, A man well looking for his years, and who Was…
It would seem so, judging by neat Delineations of the lady, in her zeal to meet Commiserations fitly, from beneath a dusty…
I The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves that…
Read by Patrick Kennedy, David Hare, Dan Stevens + 1 other
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 1 other
That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost, Quiet the dog, tether the pony To a distant post; Our master Caesar…
