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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Read by Andrew Motion
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Andrew Motion
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Read by Andrew Motion
by John Donne
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning - John Donne - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Author to Her Book
Read by Mary Jo Salter
The Author to Her Book - Anne Bradstreet - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798 - William Wordsworth - Read by Andrew Motion
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We Wear the Mask
Read by David Yezzi
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
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The Raven
Read by David Yezzi
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by David Yezzi
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On being brought from Africa to America
Read by Mary Jo Salter
On being brought from Africa to America - Phyllis Wheatley - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen
Read by Andrew Motion
Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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Sonnet 75
Read by Andrew Motion
Sonnet 75 - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Lamb
Read by Andrew Motion
The Lamb - William Blake - Read by Andrew Motion
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To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785
Read by Jim Carruth
by Robert Burns
To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785 - Robert Burns - Read by Jim Carruth
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A Red, Red Rose
Read by Jim Carruth
by Robert Burns