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Read by Jeremy Irons, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof + 2 others
One that is ever kind said yesterday: ‘Your well-belovéd’s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time…
Read by Mariella Frostrup, Edna O’Brien, Sinéad Cusack + 3 others
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,…
Read by Ruth Negga, Edna O’Brien & Simon Callow
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Grey Gowrie & Patrick Kennedy
I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have…
Read by Ruth Negga, Fiona Shaw, Lisa Dwan + 1 other
We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry….
[excerpt] V While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern
You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability rather than an asset – that in view of the fact…
Read by Harold Pinter
Summer is fading: The leaves fall in ones and twos From trees bordering The new recreation ground. In the hollows of afternoons…
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my soul going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand as a…
Read by Freddie Fox, Patrick Kennedy, Joel MacCormack + 1 other
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O…
Read by Juliet Stevenson
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining…
Read by Colin Salmon & Alan Cox
I She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright….
