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The shadow well - Richard Berengarten
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The death of children - Richard Berengarten
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Clean out the house - Richard Berengarten
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On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

Read by Simon Russell Beale
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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How do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Judi Dench
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If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Rosamund Pike
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The First Day

Read by Judi Dench
The First Day - Christina Rossetti - Read by Judi Dench
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Remember

Read by Rosamund Pike
Remember - Christina Rossetti - Read by Rosamund Pike
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John Keats

B. 1795 D. 1821

7 poems available

The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats

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Emily Dickinson

B. 1830 D. 1886

6 poems available

To see the Summer Sky / Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie? / True Poems flee?

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Ogden Nash

B. 1902 D. 1971

2 poems available

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash

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Thom Gunn

B. 1929 D. 2004

3 poems available

It is not so difficult to kindle the poetic fire in the first place as to keep it going, hot and bright, through a whole lifetime. - Thom Gunn

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