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All the night in woe Lyca’s parents go Over valleys deep, While the deserts weep. Tired and woe-begone, Hoarse with making moan,…
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm; Besides I can tell where…
‘Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to Thought A greater than itself to know: ‘And,…
The sun does arise, And make happy the skies. The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring. The sky-lark and thrush, The…
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ” ‘weep!…
Father, father, where are you going O do not walk so fast. Speak father, speak to your little boy Or else I…
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright, Dreaming in the joys of night; Sleep, sleep; in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep. Sweet babe,…
Read by Ralph Fiennes
If all a top physicist knows About the Truth be true, Then, for all the so-and-so’s, Futility and grime, Our common world…
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 Fiona Shaw & Patrick Kennedy
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics, Yet here’s a…
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…
