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Sat February 13 2010
W Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. -------------------------------...
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W Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------------- Sonnet 57
Being your Slave by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Being your
slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your
desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to
do, till you require. Nor d...
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W Shakespeare read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------------- Sonnet 57
Being your Slave by William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Being your
slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your
desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to
do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you, Nor think the
bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once
adieu; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may
be, or your affairs suppose, But, like a sad slave, stay and think
of nought Save, where you are how happy you make those! So true a
fool is love, that in your Will, Though you do any thing, he thinks
no ill. For hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry
Aloud index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2008
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Sat February 13 2010
G Wither read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. ------------------------------------...
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G Wither read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------- The Lover’s
Resolution by George Wither by George Wither (1588-1667) Shall I,
wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair? Or make pale my
cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the
day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, ...
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G Wither read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------- The Lover’s
Resolution by George Wither by George Wither (1588-1667) Shall I,
wasting in despair, Die because a woman 's fair? Or make pale my
cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the
day, Or the flow'ry meads in May, If she think not well of me, What
care I how fair she be? Shall my silly heart be pined 'Cause I see
a woman kind? Or a well disposed nature Joined with a lovely
feature? Be she meeker, kinder, than Turtle-dove or pelican, If she
be not so to me, What care I how kind she be? Shall a woman's
virtues move Me to perish for her love? Or her well-deservings
known Make me quite forget my own? Be she with that goodness blest
Which may merit name of Best, If she be not such to me, What care I
how good she be? 'Cause her fortune seems too high, Shall I play
the fool and die? She that bears a noble mind, If not outward helps
she find, Thinks what with them he would do That without them dares
her woo; And unless that mind I see, What care I how great she be?
Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne'er the more despair; If
she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve; If she
slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go; For if she be not
for me, What care I for whom she be? First aired: 23 July 2008 For
hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud
index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2008
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Wed February 10 2010
C Lamb read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------...
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C Lamb read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. ---------------------------------------- The Old Familiar
Faces by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) I have had playmates, I have
had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days -
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I
have been carousing, Drinking ...
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C Lamb read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. ---------------------------------------- The Old Familiar
Faces by Charles Lamb (1775–1834) I have had playmates, I have
had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days -
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I
have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom
cronies - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I loved a Love
once, fairest among women: Closed are her doors on me, I must not
see her - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a
friend, a kinder friend has no man: Like an ingrate, I left my
friend abruptly; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.
Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seem'd a
desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar
faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not
thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old
familiar faces - How some they have died, and some they have left
me, And some are taken from me; all are departed - All, all are
gone, the old familiar faces. First aired: 4 December 2007 For
hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud
index. Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2007
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Sat February 06 2010
C Marlowe read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
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the past. -----------------------------------...
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C Marlowe read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------------------- The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564 –
1593) Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the
pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the
craggy mountains yield. There will w...
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C Marlowe read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/ Giving voice to the poetry of
the past. --------------------------------------------------- The
Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe (1564 –
1593) Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the
pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the
craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see
the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals. There will I make thee beds of
roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a
kirtle Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle. A gown made of the
finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull, Fair linèd
slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. A belt of
straw and ivy buds With coral clasps and amber studs: And if these
pleasures may thee move, Come live with me and be my Love. Thy
silver dishes for thy meat As precious as the gods do eat, Shall on
an ivory table be Prepared each day for thee and me. The shepherd
swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May-morning: If
these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my Love.
First aired: 20 September 2007 For hundreds more poetry readings,
visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. Reading © Classic Poetry
Aloud 2008
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Fri January 15 2010
T Wyatt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: www.classicpoetryaloud.com
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
--------------------------------------- I am ...
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T Wyatt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: www.classicpoetryaloud.com
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
--------------------------------------- I am as I am by Sir Thomas
Wyatt (1503 – 1542) I am as I am and so will I be But how that I
am none knoweth truly, Be it evil be it well, be I bond be I free I
am as I am and so will I be. I lead my life indifferently, I mean
nothing but honestly, And t...
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T Wyatt read by Classic Poetry Aloud: www.classicpoetryaloud.com
Giving voice to the poetry of the past.
--------------------------------------- I am as I am by Sir Thomas
Wyatt (1503 – 1542) I am as I am and so will I be But how that I
am none knoweth truly, Be it evil be it well, be I bond be I free I
am as I am and so will I be. I lead my life indifferently, I mean
nothing but honestly, And though folks judge diversely, I am as I
am and so will I die. I do not rejoice nor yet complain, Both mirth
and sadness I do refrain, And use the mean since folks will fain
Yet I am as I am be it pleasure or pain. Divers do judge as they do
true, Some of pleasure and some of woe, Yet for all that no thing
they know, But I am as I am wheresoever I go. But since judgers do
thus decay, Let every man his judgement say: I will it take in
sport and play, For I am as I am who so ever say nay. Who judgeth
well, well God him send; Who judgeth evil, God them amend; To judge
the best therefore intend, For I am as I am and so will I end. Yet
some that be that take delight To judge folks thought for envy and
spite, But whether they judge me wrong or right, I am as I am and
so do I write. Praying you all that this do read, To trust it as
you do your creed, And not to think I change my weed, For I am as I
am however I speed. But how that is I leave to you; Judge as ye
list, false or true; Ye know no more than afore ye knew; Yet I am
as I am whatever ensue. And from this mind I will not flee, But to
you all that misjudge me, I do protest as ye may see, That I am as
I am and so will I be. First aired: 18 February 2008 For hundreds
more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index. Reading
© Classic Poetry Aloud 2008
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