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When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ” ‘weep!…
Is this a holy thing to see, In a rich and fruitful land, Babes reducd to misery, Fed with cold and usurous…
Two crowned Kings, and One that stood alone With no green weight of laurels round his head, But with sad eyes as…
Read by Jeremy Irons
I Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find! I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;…
Read by Edna O’Brien & Patrick Kennedy
A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love: The folk who are buying and selling, The clouds on…
Read by Sinéad Cusack & Edna O’Brien
I went out alone To sing a song or two, My fancy on a man, And you know who. Another came in…
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 Charles Dance
Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a…
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…
I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked…
When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy…
Read by Tom Hollander
Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever fare thee well! Even though unforgiving, never ‘Gainst thee shall my heart…