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National Trust Collection
The poetry of National Trust places selected by visitors
The recordings in this collection were selected by National Trust visitors from our Archive collections to celebrate the poetry of the places they love. Poetry expresses and gives voice to the relationships, memories and sense of well-being which we can draw from these uniquely valuable environments.
In Memoriam CXV
Read by Andrew Motion
In Memoriam CXV - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Andrew Motion
The Mower to the Glow-worms
Read by Andrew Motion
The Mower to the Glow-worms - Andrew Marvell - Read by Andrew Motion
Where be ye going, you Devon maid?
Read by Andrew Motion
by John Keats
Where be ye going, you Devon maid? - John Keats - Read by Andrew Motion
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison
Read by Andrew Motion
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Read by Andrew Motion
Private: Overlooking the River Stour
Read by Andrew Motion
by Thomas Hardy