Professional readings on CD recorded by West End and Globe
theatre actors
Poems are written to be heard as well as read. Provided on CD,
these poetry readings can be played in class or uploaded onto a
VLE system. Recordings include female and male readers and
Scottish, English and American accents where possible. Bring
poetry to life in your classrooms!
37 poems, 90 minutes on two CDs:
- A Better Resurrection
- A Birthday
- A Dumb Friend
- A Royal Princess
-
After
Death
- An Apple-Gathering
- Another Spring
- Cousin Kate
- Despised and Rejected
- Echo
- Goblin Market
- Good Friday
- In An Artist's Studio
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- In the Round Tower of Jhansi
- In The Willow Shade
- Jessie Cameron
- Maude Clare
- My Dream
- No, Thank You John
- On the Wing
- Promises like Piecrust
- Remember
- Shut Out
- Sister Maude
- 'Song' (Oh roses for the flush of youth)
- 'Song' ('When I am dead…)
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- Spring Quiet
-
Summer
is Ended
- Symbols
- The Convent Threshold
- The Key-Note
- The Lowest Place
- The World
- To Lalla, reading my verses topsy-turvy
- Twice
- Uphill
- Winter: My Secret
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30 Poems, 74 minutes on two
CDs:
- A Hymn To God The Father
- A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- A Valediction of Weeping
- Air and Angels
- Elegy XVII: Elegy On His Mistress
- Elegy XX: To His Mistress Going to Bed
-
Holy
Sonnets: Sonnet IV
- Holy Sonnets: Sonnet VII
- Holy Sonnets: Sonnet X
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- Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XIV
- Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XIX
- Holy Sonnets: Sonnet XVIII
- Love's Alchemy
- Love's Growth
- Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star
- Song: Sweetest Love I Do Not Go
- The Anniversary
-
The
Apparition
- The Canonization
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- The Ecstacy
- The Flea
- The Funeral
- The Good Morrow
- The Indifferent
- The Legacy
- The Relic
- The Sunne Rising
- Twickenham Garden
- Woman's Constancy
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4 poems, 10 parts, 85 minutes on two CDs:
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Goody Blake and Harry Gill
- The Idiot Boy
- The Thorn
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7 parts, 38 minutes on two CDs.
34 poems, 138 minutes
on three CDs:
- A Grammarian’s Funeral
- A Toccata of Galuppi’s
- A Woman’s Last Word
- Apparent Failure
- Confessions
- Dubiety
- Evelyn Hope
- Fra Lippo Lippi
- Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
- 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix'
- James Lee's Wife: III - In the Doorway
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- Love Among the Ruins
-
Love in a
Life
-
Life in a
Love
- Meeting at Night
- My Last Duchess
- Never the Time and the Place
- Now
- Parting at Morning
- Pictor Ignotus
- Porphyria's Lover
- Prospice
- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
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- The Bishop Orders his Tomb
- The Laboratory
- The Last Ride Together
- The Lost Leader
- The Lost Mistress
- The Patriot
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Two in the Campagna
- Up at a Villa, Down in the City
- Women and Roses
- You'll Love Me Yet
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18 poems, 30 minutes on one
CD:
- From A Trench by Maude Anna Bell
- Drafts by Nora Bomford
- A Volunteer by Helen Parry Eden
- The Wykehamist by Nora Griffiths
- Convalescence by Amy Lowell
- The Cenotaph, September 1919 by Charlotte Mew
- May, 1915 by Charlotte Mew
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-
June,
1915 by Charlotte Mew
- In A Restaurant, 1917 by Eleanour Norton
- The Minority: 1917 by May O’Rourke
- ‘SALL,’ (In Aid of the Wounded Horses) by Inez
Quilter (Aged 11 years)
- Y.M.C.A. by C. A. L. T.
- Spring in War-Time by Sara Teasdale
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- ‘There will come soft rains’ by Sara Teasdale
- The Broken Soldier by Katherine Tynan
- A Girl’s Song by Katherine Tynan
- Joining the Colours (West Kents, Dublin, August
1914) by Katherine Tynan
- Autumn, 1914 by Mary Webb
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27 parts, 48 minutes on one CD:
-
The
Opening
- The Knight
- The Squire
- The Yeoman
- The Prioress
- The Monk
- The Friar
- The Merchant
- The Clerk of Oxford
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- The Sergeant of Law
- The Franklin
- The Haberdasher
- The Cook
- The Shipman
- The Doctor of Physic
- The Wife of Bath
- The Poor Parson
- The Ploughman
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- The Miller
- The Manciple
- The Reeve
- The Summoner
- The Pardoner
- The Scene is Set
- The Host Harry Bailey
- The Conditions of the Competition
- The Pilgrims Depart, The Game Begins
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34 poems, 62 minutes on two CDs:
- Men Who March Away by Thomas Hardy
- In Time of The Breaking of Nations by Thomas Hardy
- Peace by Rupert Brooke
- The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
- Into Battle by Julian Grenfell
- In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
- All the hills and vales along by Charles Sorley
read in an English accent
- All the hills and vales along by Charles Sorley
read in a Scottish accent
- When you see millions of the mouthless dead by
Charles Sorley read in an English accent
- When you see millions of the mouthless dead by
Charles Sorley read in an Scottish accent
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- Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by W. B. Yeats
- In Memoriam (August 1915) by Edward Thomas
- The Cherry Trees by Edward Thomas
- Rain by Edward Thomas
- As the Team’s Head Brass by Edward Thomas
- To His Love by Ivor Gurney
- Ballad of the Three Spectres by Ivor Gurney
- The Silent One by Ivor Gurney
- On Receiving News of the War by Isaac Rosenberg
- August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg
- Break of Day in the Trenches by Isaac Rosenberg
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- Dead Man’s Dump by Isaac Rosenberg
- Returning, We Hear the Larks by Isaac Rosenberg
- Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
-
Dulce
et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen
- Exposure by Wilfred Owen
- Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
- The Send-Off by Wilfred Owen
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
- Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen
- Elegy in a Country Churchyard by G. K. Chesterton
- Epitaphs of the War by Rudyard Kipling
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22 poems, 34 minutes on one CD:
- A Broken Appointment
- Afterwards
- At an Inn
- At Castle Boterel
- Beeny Cliff
- Beyond the Last Lamp
-
Drummer
Hodge
- During Wind and Rain
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- From Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers)
- In Time of The Breaking of Nations
- Neutral Tones
- The Convergence of the Twain
- The Darkling Thrush
- The Going
- The Haunter
- The Man He Killed
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- The Oxen
- The Ruined Maid
- The Voice
- Transformations
- Under the Waterfall
- Your Last Drive
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60 poems, 92 minutes on two CDs:
- From ‘Men Who March Away (Song of the Soldiers)’
Thomas Hardy
- ‘Happy is England Now’ John Freeman
- ‘The Call’ W. N. Hodgson
- ‘England to her Sons’ W. N. Hodgson
- ‘Peace’ Rupert Brooke
- ‘Officer’s Mess’ Harold Monroe
- ‘No One Cares Less Than I’ Edward Thomas
- From an Untitled Poem (‘Light-lipped and
singing...’) C. H. Sorley read with an English accent
- From an Untitled Poem (‘Light-lipped and
singing...’) C. H. Sorley read with a Scottish accent
- Untitled (‘All the hills and vales along...’) C. H.
Sorley read with an English accent
-
Untitled (‘All the hills and vales along...’) C. H.
Sorley read with a Scottish accent
- ‘Magpies in Picardy’ T. P. Cameron Wilson
- ‘Soliloquy’ Francis Ledwidge
- ‘Before Action’ W. N. Hodgson
- ‘The Aisne’ Alan Seegar
- ‘Rendezvous’ Alan Seegar
- ‘A Listening Post’ R. E. Vernède
- ‘Before the Summer’ E. A. Mackintosh
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- ‘Into Battle’ Julian Grenfell
- ‘Chemin des Dames’ Crosbie Garstin
- ‘This is no Case of Petty Right or Wrong’ Edward
Thomas
- Untitled (‘When you see millions...’) C. H. Sorley
read with an English accent
- Untitled (‘When you see millions...’) C. H. Sorley
read with a Scottish accent
- ‘To Germany’ C. H. Sorley read with an English
accent
- ‘To Germany’ C. H. Sorley read with a Scottish
accent
- ‘The Dead’ Rupert Brooke
- ‘The Anxious Dead’ John McCrae
-
‘In
Flanders Fields’ John McCrae
- ‘An Irish Airman foresees his Death’ W. B. Yeats
- ‘On the Wings of the Morning’ Jeffrey Day
- ‘Outward Bound’ Nowell Oxland
- Untitled (‘I saw a man this morning...’) Patrick
Shaw-Stewart
- ‘Mesapotamia’ Rudyard Kipling
- ‘Bombed in London’ Rudyard Kipling
- ‘The War Films’ Sir Henry Newbolt
- ‘The Verdicts (Jutland)’ Rudyard Kipling
- ‘Nineteen-fifteen’ John Drinkwater
- ‘In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ Thomas Hardy
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- ‘From the Somme’ Leslie Coulson
- ‘Kismet’ R. B. Marriott-Watson
- ‘In Memoriam’ E. A. Mackintosh
- ‘To My Daughter Betty’ T. M. Kettle
- ‘How Long, O Lord?’ Robert Palmer
- ‘Returning, we hear the Larks’ Isaac Rosenberg
- ‘The Dying Soldier’ Isaac Rosenberg
- ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’ Isaac Rosenberg
- ‘A Death-bed’ Rudyard Kipling
- ‘Recruiting’ E. A. Mackintosh
- ‘Home Thoughts in Laventie’ E. W. Tennant
- ‘The Mad Soldier’ E. W. Tennant
- ‘Louse Hunting’ Isaac Rosenberg
- ‘Dead Man’s Dump’ Isaac Rosenberg
- ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ Wilfred Owen
- ‘Exposure’ Wilfred Owen
- ‘The Sentry’ Wilfred Owen
- ‘Strange Meeting’ Wilfred Owen
- ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ Wilfred Owen
- ‘A Dead Statesman’ Rudyard Kipling
-
‘Here Dead
we Lie’ A. E. Housman
- ‘Common Form’ Rudyard Kipling
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22 poems, 47 minutes on one CD:
- A Terre
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo
- Arms and the Boy
- Conscious
- Disabled
- Dulce et Decorum est
- Exposure
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- Futility
- Insensibility
- Inspection
- Mental Cases
- Miners
- Spring Offensive
- Strange Meeting
-
The
Chances
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- The Dead-Beat
- The Last Laugh
- The Letter
- The Send-Off
- The Sentry
- The Show
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