The Gift Of Poetry

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   W.H.Auden: The Night Mail
   2:14
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   Laurie Lee: April
   1:22
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   Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol
   6:35
4. 4
   Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose
   0:47
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   e.e.cummings: Sweet Spring
   1:06
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   e.e.cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
   1:21
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   e.e.cummings: The Moon Looked into my Window
   1:05
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   Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays
   1:05
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   Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend
   1:53
10. 10
    Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme
    2:09
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior
    2:35
12. 12
    Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights
    2:49
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    Thomas Hardy: The Voice
    0:55
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    John Clare: Autumn
    0:48
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    Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
    0:59
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    Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply
    1:14
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    Bishop Henry King: from Exequy on his Wife
    0:40
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    William Dunbar: from Lament of the Makers
    0:46
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    Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
    2:34
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    John Betjeman: The Church's Restoration
    1:15
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    John Betjeman: Olympic Girl
    1:27
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    John Betjeman: Seaside Golf
    1:08
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    John Betjeman: Business Women
    1:01
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    John Betjeman: Indoor Games near Newbury
    2:26
25. 25
    John Betjeman: How to get on in Society
    0:56
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    John Betjeman: Licorice Fields at Pontefract
    1:30
27. 27
    A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning
    0:43
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    John Betjeman: Death at Leamington
    1:28
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    Coventry Patmore: The Toys
    1:55
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    T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat
    3:10
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    Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake
    1:11
32. 32
    Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (extract)
    2:35
33. 33
    Wm Shakespeare: On her Reign (from Henry VIII)
    1:19
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    Shakespeare: 'Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear no more the Heat of the Sun...)
    1:32
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    William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality
    11:02
36. 36
    John Donne: A Devotion (No Man is an Island)
    4:11
37. 37
    Langston Hughes: Freedom Train
    2:54
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    Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
    2:49

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