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Angel - Joelle Taylor
The Mighty Dead

Ulysses

Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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On Nurses - Roger Robinson
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Isaac Rosenberg

B. 1890 D. 1918

5 poems available

My days are but the tombs of buried hours; / Which tombs are hidden in the piled years; / But from the mounds there spring up many flowers, / Whose beauty well repays their cost of tears. Isaac Rosenberg, 'My Days'

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Ballad of a Hero - Kae Tempest
The Mighty Dead

Ulysses

Read by Andrew Motion
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Andrew Motion
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Heroic Simile - Robert Hass
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Rosa - Rita Dove
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The Shield of Achilles - W. H. Auden
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