A truly wonderful selection read by Anton Lesser and Simon Russell Beale:
SHAKESPEARE - Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day, When in the chronicle of wasted time, When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,SIR WALTER RALEIGH - the author's epitaph, JOHN DONNE - Death be not proud, ANDREW MARVELL - To his coy mistress, JOHN MILTON -On his blindness, ROBERT HERRICK - Delight in Disorder, THOMAS GRAY - Elegy written in a country churchyard, WILLIAM BLAKE - Tyger, Tyger, London. ROBERT BURNS - My luv's like a red, red rose, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - I wandered lonely as a cloud, I travelled among unknown men,She dwelt among the untrodden ways, A Slumber did my spirit seal, The World is too much with us,LORD BYRON - She walks in beauty, So we'll go no more a-roving, SHELLEY -Ozymandias, KEATS - Ode to a Nightingale, LANDOR - Envoi, ROBERT BROWNING - Home thoughts abroad, Meeting at night, Parting at Morning, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING -How do I love thee?,TENNYSON - Ulysses, Now sleeps the crimson petal, CHRISTINA ROSETTI -When I am dead, MATTHEW ARNOLD - Dover Beach, GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS -Pied Beauty, THOMAS HARDY - The darkling thrush, KIPLING - Recessional, YEATS - He wishes for the cloths of Heaven, When you are old and grey, EDWARD THOMAS - Adlestrop, HOUSEMAN - From a Shropshire Lad, RUPERT BROOKE -Soldier, WILFRED OWEN - Strange Meeting