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Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that in a former time, Love, sweet Love, was thought a crime!…
Pity would be no more If we did not make somebody poor; And Mercy no more could be If all were as…
Whate’re is born of mortal birth Must be consumèd with the earth, To rise from generation free: Then what have I to…
My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel…
Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reducd to misery, Fed with cold and usurous…
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 Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Greg Wise + 1 other
This is no case of petty right or wrong That politicians or philosophers Can judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hot…
Read by Grey Gowrie & Sinéad Cusack
I Swear by what the sages spoke Round the Mareotic Lake That the Witch of Atlas knew, Spoke and set the cocks…
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…
[excerpt] “All things are sold: the very light of Heaven Is venal; earth’s unsparing gifts of love, The smallest and most despicable…
Read by Elizabeth McGovern
That silence is best: that action and re- Action are equal: that control, discipline, and Liberation are bywords when spoken by an…
Read by Dominic West & Roger Moore
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and…
