Listen to the world’s best poetry read out loud.

Most earnestly and truly I believe

The human heart is beautiful and good:
Though poisonous weeds upgrow within its clefts

As nightshade grows within the verdant wood.
There are soft streams that flow with gentle sound,

And pearly sprays of blossom, and the grove
Is flooded with the music of sweet birds,

So o’er its dark emotions triumphs love.
Let me keep clear unto the end of life

My faith in sweet humanity’s fair flower ;
Old age, that sits with all its glamour gone.

Cynical, cold, and infidel and sour