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Read by Niall Buggy
Imagine a woodin Wales, virtually in Englanda mile away as crows who nest in it fly. The wood is small and scruffy.Sheep can…
Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou…
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as…
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ” ‘weep!…
Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter…
1 As I ebb’d with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know, As I walk’d where the ripples…
Read by Brian Cox
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern & Eddie Redmayne
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The…
Sweet, I blame you not, for mine the fault was, had I not been made of common clay I had climbed the higher…
Read by Simon Callow & Dominic West
I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands…
Read by Sinéad Cusack & Lily James
The aged catch their breath, For the nonchalant couple go Waltzing across the tightrope As if there were no death Or hope…
Read by Ralph Fiennes
Clocks cannot tell our time of day For what event to pray Because we have no time, because We have no time…