The Gift of Poetry

"The Gift of Poetry album by John Laurie on BeMusic"

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Release Date: 2018-04-20 00:00:00

  • W.H.Auden: The Night Mail
  • Laurie Lee: April
  • Oscar Wilde: Ballad of Reading Gaol
  • Robert Burns: Red, Red Rose
  • e.e.cummings: Sweet Spring
  • e.e.cummings: When Faces Called Flowers
  • e.e.cummings: The Moon Looked into my Window
  • Thomas H. Bayly: Ask Me Not For Sportive Lays
  • Cornelius Whur: The Female Friend
  • Thomas H. Bayly: Toujours Le Meme
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Exelsior
  • Thomas Hardy: Wessex Heights
  • Thomas Hardy: The Voice
  • John Clare: Autumn
  • Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd
  • Walter Raleigh: Nymph's Reply
  • Bishop Henry King: from Exequy on his Wife
  • William Dunbar: from Lament of the Makers
  • Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
  • John Betjeman: The Church's Restoration
  • John Betjeman: Olympic Girl
  • John Betjeman: Seaside Golf
  • John Betjeman: Business Women
  • John Betjeman: Indoor Games near Newbury
  • John Betjeman: How to get on in Society
  • John Betjeman: Licorice Fields at Pontefract
  • A. E. Housman: From Far from Eve and Morning
  • John Betjeman: Death at Leamington
  • Coventry Patmore: The Toys
  • T. S. Eliot: Gus, the Theatre Cat
  • Yuan Jie: Drunk Song on Stone Fish Lake
  • Robert Browning: Ring and the Book (extract)
  • Wm Shakespeare: On her Reign (from Henry VIII)
  • Shakespeare: ‘Dirge for Fidele' from Cymbeline (Fear no more the Heat of the Sun...)
  • William Wordsworth: Intimations of Immortality
  • John Donne: A Devotion (No Man is an Island)
  • Langston Hughes: Freedom Train
  • Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address