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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!…
Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou…
In futurity I prophetic see That the earth from sleep (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise and seek For her Maker meek;…
I love to rise in a summer morn When the birds sing on every tree; The distant huntsman winds his horn, And…
Read by Colin Salmon, Harriet Walter, Guy Paul + 6 others
Canto the First (excerpts) 65 Alfonso was the name of Julia’s lord, A man well looking for his years, and who Was…
Read by Eileen Atkins, Lily James, Joanna David + 2 others
Let me tell you a little story About Miss Edith Gee; She lived in Clevedon Terrace At number 83. She’d a slight…
Read by Freddie Fox & Deborah Findlay
I thought it would last my time – The sense that, beyond the town, There would always be fields and farms, Where…
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 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….
Read by Harriet Walter, Poppy Miller, Elizabeth McGovern + 4 others
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and…
Read by Harold Pinter
Summer is fading: The leaves fall in ones and twos From trees bordering The new recreation ground. In the hollows of afternoons…
Read by Harriet Walter & Charles Dance
Earliest morning, switching all the tracks that cross the sky from cinder star to star, coupling the ends of streets to trains…
