John Gielgud/WEdith Evans
The Voice of Poetry

poetry

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Fanfares. Excerpts from Richard II and King John 3:16
2 Shakespeare Sonnet CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true minds... 1:15
3 Edmund Waller: Go, lovely rose 1:03
4 Anon [c 1607]: Since first I saw your face 1:04
5 Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day 1:02
6 Ben Jonson: The triumph 1:38
7 Shakespeare: That time of year 1:08
8 Shelley: Ode to the west wind 4:39
9 Shelley: Ozymandius 1:12
10 J Donne: Death 1:06
11 Byron: So we'll go no more a-roving 0:32
12 Charles Kingsley: Young and old 0:48
13 C Rossetti: A birthday 0:49
14 William Morriss: Summer dawn 1:02
15 Tennyson: Break,break,break 1:04
16 R Bridges: The storm is over 2:48
17 S Sassoon: Lone heart, learning 0:49
18 S Sassoon: Down the glimmering staircase 0:49
19 W de la Mare: Arabia 1:22
20 John Masefield: Truth 1:17
21 WH Davies: Leisure 0:51
22 W de la Mare: Silver 0:51
23 TS Eliot: The journey of the Magi 2:47
24 TS Eliot: Preludes 2:44
25 Shakespeare: Sonnet CIV To me fair friend 1:05
26 Ben Jonson: To Celia [drink to me only with thine eyes] 0:50
27 W Wordsworth: A slumber did my spirit seal 0:35
28 Keats: La belle dame sans merci 2:33
29 Wm Blake: The Tiger 0:58
30 AH Clough: Say not the struggle naught availeth 1:04
31 Byron: She walks in beauty 1:15
32 W Wordsworth: Upon Westminster Bridge 1:07
33 Walter Scott: Allan-a-dale 1:51
34 Shaekspeare: Sonnet CXVI Let me not to the marriage of true mind... 1:02
35 Shakespeare: Sonnet XXX When to the sessions of sweet silent tho... 1:02
36 Shakespeare: Fear no more the heat of the sun [Cymbeline] 1:17
37 W Wordsworth: The Reaper 1:48
38 Tennyson: Sweet and low 1:09
39 R Herrick: A Child's Grace 0:21
40 J Masefield: Tewkesbury Road 1:14
41 GK Chesterton: The Donkey 1:03
42 Thomas Hardy: Weathers 0:53
43 W de la Mare: Nicholas Nye 2:13
44 Laurence Binyon: The shyness of beauty 0:38
45 J Masefield: Cargoes 0:55
46 Gordon Bottomley: The Ploughman 1:43
47 Wallace B Nichols: Summer Morning 0:29
48 WH Davies: The Kingfisher 1:06
49 W de la Mare: The Song of Enchantment 1:02
50 Lewis Carroll: You are old, Father Willliam 1:26
51 GK Chesterton: The Rolling English Road 2:00
52 Richard Church: The Shop Girl 1:33
53 Alfred Noyes: The Elfin Artist 2:16
54 WH Davies: The Moon 7:21
55 Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest 6:30
Total time 79:23