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Read by Bob Geldof & Grey Gowrie
I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have…
Read by Jeremy Irons, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof + 2 others
One that is ever kind said yesterday: ‘Your well-belovéd’s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Simon Callow, Bob Geldof + 2 others
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, “He holds her dear,” And shook with hate and fear. But…
Read by Mariella Frostrup, Edna O’Brien, Sinéad Cusack + 3 others
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,…
Read by Marianne Faithfull, Dominic West, Patrick Kennedy + 1 other
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Patrick Kennedy, Edna O’Brien + 1 other
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed: and plunging down Forgot…
Read by Bob Geldof, Seamus Heaney, Evanna Lynch + 4 others
I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And…
Read by Ruth Negga, Edna O’Brien & Simon Callow
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right…
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 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 Edna O’Brien, Patrick Kennedy, Dominic West + 1 other
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they…
Read by Ruth Negga, Fiona Shaw, Lisa Dwan + 1 other
We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry….
