Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.
This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.
The poems are also available as individual downloads under the "Dozen Red Roses, A" series.
Written By : David Ian Davies
Narrated By : David Ian Davies
Published By : One Voice Recordings
Runtime : 28 minutes
Categories : Poetry Classic Literature
Price : $7.00
The ethereal words of the great thinker Omar Khayyam. More info...
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Written By : John Kavanagh
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 2 hours 35 minutes
Categories : Biographical Arts & Drama Poetry
Price : $12.25
Born in Dublin in 1865, Yeats drew strength from the Irish tradition, as can be seen in this special audiobook which presents the most important poems in the context of his life and ambitions. More info...
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Written By : Geoffrey Chaucer
Narrated By : Full Cast Production
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 3 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Poetry Classic Literature Dramatizations Classics Short Stories
Price : $15.75
Without doubt, the greatest work of Geoffrey Chaucer. A brilliant picture of medieval life. More info...
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Written By : Various
Narrated By : Various
Published By : Select Music & Distribution
Runtime : 1 hour 45 minutes
Categories : Poetry Classic Literature Humor American
Price : $12.25
Historial recordings of poetry, humor and drama. 1908 - 1947. More info...
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Written By : Dylan Thomas
Narrated By : Dylan Thomas
Published By : Harper Collins UK
Runtime : 45 minutes
Categories : Poetry Classic Literature
Price : $10.49
It is now Thomas’ most widely known work, a wistful, tender, touching, wide-eyed in wonder evocation of the sights, smells and sounds of a child’s Christmas in a seaside town in Wales. More info...
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