Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems (mp3)
Author : Various
Performed By : Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Runtime : 22 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.
This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.
The poems are also available as individual downloads under the "Dozen Red Roses, A" series.
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Child's Christmas In Wales, A
Author : Dylan Thomas
Performed By : Dylan Thomas
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Runtime : 45 minutes
Categories : Poetry
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Thomas's wonderful recollection of this holiday in the seaside town of his youth is captured in this vivid performance. Also included are five other selected poems read by Dylan Thomas, including his well-known Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
Whether sharing his wistful memory of a holiday spent with people long past, or addressing the perennial problem of our mortality, Thomas gives us great pleasure in our personal and common memories while affirming life with a resounding "Yes!"
Contents:
A Child's Christmas in Wales
And five poems: Fern Hill; Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night; In The White Giant's Thigh; Balad of the Long-Legged Bait; Ceremony After a Fire Raid
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