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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….
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…
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…
[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….
