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Read by Sinéad Cusack
The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies. My wall is loosening;…
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 Gavin Drea, Bob Geldof, Fiona Shaw + 2 others
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 2 others
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his…
I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night’s fathomless wisdom come, That I had shorn my locks away And laid…
Read by Edward Fox, Harriet Walter, Deborah Findlay + 2 others
[A penny for the Old Guy] I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with…
The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world’s delight?…
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress…
Read by Roger Moore, Kenneth Cranham & Sophie Cookson
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust…
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Let us play yesterday – I – the Girl at school – You – and Eternity – the Untold Tale – Easing…
Read by Juliet Stevenson, Lindsay Duncan, Elizabeth McGovern + 1 other
Wild nights – Wild nights! Were I with thee Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the winds – To a…
I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars Did wander darkling in…
