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Read by Evanna Lynch & Kristin Scott Thomas
I laid me down upon a bank, Where Love lay sleeping; I heard among the rushes dank Weeping, weeping. Then I…
Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & green Grey-headed…
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel…
Merry, merry sparrow! Under leaves so green A happy blossom Sees you, swift as arrow, Seek your cradle narrow, Near my bosom….
Read by Felicity Kendal, Emilia Fox, Kelly Reilly + 1 other
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue, And feel once more…
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?…
[excerpt] ‘What Power delights to torture us? I know That to myself I do not wholly owe What now I suffer, though…
Read by Harriet Walter, Poppy Miller, Elizabeth McGovern + 4 others
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and…
Read by Sophie Cookson, Joanna David & Joely Richardson
Now this particular girl During a ceremonious april walk With her latest suitor Found herself, of a sudden, intolerably struck By the…
Read by Gloria Obianyo
‘It is the future generation that presses into being by means of these exuberant feelings and super-sensible soap bubbles of ours.’ SCHOPENHAUER…
Read by Alan Cox & Tom Hollander
Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory;…
Read by Charles Dance
An Old Story I It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed…
