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Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean The children walking two & two in red & blue & green Grey-headed…
“Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven…
Read by Bob Geldof
No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolf’s-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d…
Read by Petroc Trelawny, Charles Dance, Rupert Evans + 3 others
Well, how are things in Heaven? I wish you’d say, Because I’d like to know that you’re all right. Tell me, have…
Read by Harold Pinter
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on the thick…
Read by Jeremy Irons, Sophie Cookson, Wilf Scolding + 16 others
[excerpts] from Book I What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal…
[excerpt] “All things are sold: the very light of Heaven Is venal; earth’s unsparing gifts of love, The smallest and most despicable…
I The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a…
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on…
Read by Harriet Walter
Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who…
Read by Roger Moore
[1914-18] (‘The Honours of War’ – A Diversity of Creatures) These were our children who died for our lands; they were dear…
Read by Juliet Stevenson
I took one Draught of Life – I’ll tell you what I paid – Precisely an existence – The market price, they…
