The Nation's Favourite Love Poems

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

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CD 1
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1SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE XLIII: How do I love thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Judi Dench1:22
2HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN
William Butler Yeats Read by Paul Rhys1:02
3A RED, RED ROSE
Robert Burns Read by Paul Rhys0:54
4SONNET 116: LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS
William Shakespeare Read by Judi Dench1:12
5THEE, THEE, ONLY THEE
Thomas Moore Read by Michael Williams1:47
6SONNET LXXV: One day I wrote her name Upon the strand
Edmund Spenser Read by Paul Rhys1:00
7TO HIS COY MISTRESS
Andrew Marvell Read by Paul Rhys2:45
8SONNET 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
William Shakespeare Read by Judi Dench1:04
9FIRST LOVE
John Clare Read by Paul Rhys1:45
10LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY
Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:13
11GLOIRE DE DIJON
DH Lawrence Read by Michael Williams1:22
12DELIGHT IN DISORDER
Robert Herrick Read by Paul Rhys1:06
13WARMING HER PEARLS
Carol Ann Duffy Read by Charlotte Attenborough2:14
14SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
George Gordon Byron Read by Paul Rhys1:32
15FIELDWORK
Seamus Heaney Read by Michael Williams2:35
16TO MY DEAR AND LOVING HUSBAND
Anne Bradstreet Read by Judi Dench1:40
17VALENTINE
John Fuller Read by Michael Williams3:29
18YOU'RE
Sylvia Plath Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:20
19STELLA'S BIRTHDAY
Jonathan Swift Read by Michael Williams1:01
20WORDS, WIDE NIGHT
Carol Ann Duffy Read by Judi Dench1:21
21PART OF PLENTY
Bernard Spencer Read by Michael Williams1:28
22THE FIRST DAY
Christina Rossetti Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:24
23THE GOOD MORROW
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys2:27
24AIRE AND ANGELS
John Donne Read by Michael Williams1:43
25BRIGHT STAR
John Keats Read by Paul Rhys1:22
26SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE XIV: If thou must love me
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read byJudi Dench1:08
27THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE
Christopher Marlowe Read by Paul Rhys1:30
28From THE SONG OF SOLOMON
Anon Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:33
29SONNET FROM THE PORTUGUESE I: I thought once how Theocritus had sung
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Judi Dench1:13
30FOR ANNE GREGORY
William Butler Yeats Read by Paul Rhys0:55
31LOVESONG
Ted Hughes Read by Judi Dench2:50
32IN HONOUR OF LOVE
Jenny Joseph Read by Charlotte Attenborough3:56
33THE CANONIZATION
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys2:42
34LOVE IN A LIFE
Robert Browning Read by Paul Rhys1:32
35I WILL MAKE YOU BROOCHES
Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Michael Williams1:20
36ELEGIE: TO HIS MISTRIS GOING TO BED
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys3:49
37LOVE
George Herbert Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:12
38THE SUNNE RISING
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys2:40
39CODE POEM FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE
Leo Marks Read by Charlotte Attenborough0:52
40LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI
John Keats Read by Paul Rhys2:42
41GREENSLEEVES
Anon Read by Michael Williams4:02
CD 2
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1INDOOR GAMES NEAR NEWBURY
Sir John Betjeman Read by Michael Wiliams2:44
2THE CONFIRMATION
Charlotte Attenborough Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:13
3THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS
Christopher Marlowe Read by Paul Rhys1:13
4From THE RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM
Edward Fitz Read by Michael Williams Read by Michael Williams3:17
5THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY-BONGHY-BO
Edward Lear Read by Judi Dench4:51
6THE FLEA
John Donne Read by Charlotte Attenborough2:08
7I GENTLY TOUCHED HER HAND
Anon Read by Paul Rhys1:16
8MY TRUE LOVE HATH MY HEART
Sir Philip Sidney Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:12
9CORINNAE CONCUBITUS from Ovid
Ovid / Christopher Marlowe Read by Paul Rhys1:55
10THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE
William Blake Read by Read by Charlotte Attenborough0:57
11THE HILL
Rupert Brooke Read by Paul Rhys1:13
12From PARADISE LOST
John Milton Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:35
13THEY FLEE FROM ME
Thomas Wyatt & Read by Paul Rhys1:30
14EPISTLE TO MISS BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN AFTER THE CORONATION
Alexander Pope Read by Paul Rhys3:35
15SONNET 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
William Shakespeare Read by Michael Wiliams1:03
16SONNET 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
William Shakespeare Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:22
17THE BAITE
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys1:42
18LOCHINVAR
Sir Walter Scott Read by Michael Williams Read by Michael Williams2:54
19THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT
Edward Lear Read by Judi Dench1:52
20A SUBALTERN'S LOVE-SONG
Sir John Betjeman Read by Michael Williams2:41
21HE FUMBLES AT YOUR SPIRIT
Emily Dickinson Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:07
22SYMPTOMS OF LOVE
Robert Graves Read by Paul Rhys0:44
23TARANTELLA
Hilaire Belloc Read by Michael Williams1:16
24ON MARRIAGE (from The Prophet)
Khalil Gibran Read by Judi Dench1:53
25LOVE AND SLEEP
Algernon Charles Swinburne Read by Paul Rhys1:11
26WEDDING-WIND
Philip Larkin Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:34
27RENOUNCEMENT
Alice Meynell Read by Judi Dench1:08
28From SUMMER WITH MONICA
Roger McGough Read by Paul Rhys1:25
29THE UNDERTAKING
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys1:34
30THE ANNIVERSARY
John Donne Read by Charlotte Attenborough2:12
31A BIRTHDAY
Christina Rossetti Read by Judi Dench0:56
32THE VOICE
Thomas Hardy Read by Michael Williams1:07
33R. ALCONA TO J. BRENZAIDA
Emily Brontë Read by Judi Dench2:38
34LOVE SONGS IN AGE
Philip Larkin Read by Michael Williams1:25
35WHEN WE TWO PARTED
George Gordon Byron Read by Charlotte Attenborough1:34
36A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING
John Donne Read by Paul Rhys2:10
37TO LIZBIE BROWNE
Thomas Hardy Read by Michael Williams1:53
38REMEMBER
Christina Rossetti Read by Charlotte Attenborough0:57
39GO NOW
Edward Thomas Read by Michael Wiliams0:43
40GO, LOVELY ROSE
Edmund Waller Read by Paul Rhys1:02
41SONNET XLII: What lips my lips have kissed
Edna St. Vincent Millay Read byJudi Dench1:05
42WHEN YOU ARE OLD
William Butler Yeats Read by Michael Williams1:07
43NOW SLEEPS THE CRIMSON PETAL (from The Princess)
Lord Alfred Tennyson Read by Judi Dench1:18
44AE FOND KISS
Robert Burns Read by Michael Wiliams1:48

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ASIN:UK: 0563382848 [info]