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We Can’t Escape the Fact That We’re Not Enough for Each Other - Jane McKie
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Wild nights – Wild nights!
Read by Mary Jo Salter
Wild nights – Wild nights! - Emily Dickinson - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Sympathy
Read by David Yezzi
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
The Classics
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Read by Andrew Motion
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd - Walter Raleigh - Read by Andrew Motion
The Classics
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Read by Andrew Motion
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Andrew Motion
The Classics
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Read by Andrew Motion
by John Donne