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Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou…
Youth of delight, come hither, And see the opening morn, Image of truth new born. Doubt is fled, & clouds of reason,…
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh…
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. Sweet babe,…
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 Seamus Heaney & Simon Callow
Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song….
Read by Edna O’Brien & Patrick Kennedy
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…
Read by Harold Pinter
She kept her songs, they kept so little space, The covers pleased her: One bleached from lying in a sunny place, One…
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 Grey Gowrie
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone;…
Read by Bob Geldof
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it,…
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…
