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Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.)
The Funeral Oration of Pericles
Holy Bible: Old Testament
The Creation (Genesis 1:1-31)
Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22:1-13)
The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17)
The Call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3: 1-19)
David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17: 1-50)
Lament of David for Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel 1: 19-27)
The prophet Nathan rebukes King David (2 Samuel 12: 1-12)
The Wisdom of Solomon (1 Kings 3: 5-28)
Elijah in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19: 1-16)
King David refuses to drink (1 Chronicles 11: 15-19)
"Behold now behemoth..." (Job 40: 6-24)
"Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?..." (Job 41: 1-34)
Psalm 1
Psalm 8
Psalm 23
Psalm 24
Psalm 46
Psalm 121
Psalm 137
Psalm 150
"Vanity of vanities..." (Ecclesiastes 1: 2-18)
"To everything there is a season..." (Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8)
"I am the Rose of Sharon..." (Song of Solomon 2: 1-13)
Belshazzar's Feast (Daniel 5: 1-31)
Holy Bible: New Testament
The Denial of Peter (Matthew 26: 69-76)
The Magnificat (Luke 1: 46-55)
Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10: 25-37)
Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32)
Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 8: 1-11)
Faith, Hope and Charity (I Corinthians: 1-13)
Anon (Old French)
Aucassin et Nicolette (prologue)
François Villon (1431 - 1463)
Ballade des Pendus (A)
Ballade des Dames de Temps Jadis (A)
Anon (Romancero Viejo)
Romance de la Pérdida de Alhama
Romance del Prisionero
Romance de Fonte Frida
Garcilaso de la Vega (1501 – 1536)
Sonnet 23: "En tanto que de rosa..." (A)
Santa Teresa of Ávila (1515 - 1582)
Coplas del Alma Que Pena Por Ver a Dios
Joachim Du Bellay (1522 - 1560)
Les Regrets; Sonnet 33: "Heureux, qui comme Ulysse..." (A)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 – 1585)
Sonnet pour Hélène (A)
A Cassandre (A)
Sonnet: "Comme on voit ..." (A)
Fray Luis de Leon (1528 – 1591)
Vida Retirada (A)
A Francisco de Salinas (A)
Noche Serena (A)
San Juan de la Cruz (1542 - 1591)
Canción de la Subida del Monte Carmel (A)
Canción del Llama de Amor Viva (A)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
Sonnet: "Leave Me, O Love ..." (A)
Sonnet: "My true love hath my heart ..." (A)
Francois de Malherbe (1555 - 1628)
Consolation à Monsieur Du Périer, Gentilhomme d'Aix en Provence, Sur la mort de sa fille (A)
Luis de Góngora y Argote (1561 - 1627)
Letrilla: "Da bienes Fortuna..." (A)
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Sonnets
Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare... (A)
Sonnet 29: "When in disgrace..." (A)
Sonnet 30: "When to the sessions..." (A)
Sonnet 64: "When I have seen..." (A)
Sonnet 71: "No longer mourn..." (A)
Sonnet 73: "That time of year..." (A)
Sonnet 97: "How like a winter..." (A)
Sonnet 106: "When in the chronicles..." (A)
Sonnet 116: "Let me not to the marriage..." (A)
Sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes..." (A)
Extracts from the Plays
"Now is the winter of our discontent..." (Richard III 1:1)
"Methinks I am a prophet new inspired..." (Richard II 2:1)
"I have been studying how I may compare..." (Richard II 5:5)
"Gallop apace, ye fiery footed steeds" (Romeo and Juliet 3:2)
"Signor Antonio..." (The Merchant of Venice 1:3)
"The quality of mercy is not strained..." (The Merchant of Venice 4:1)
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!..." (The Merchant of Venice 5:1)
Prologue (Henry V 1:1)
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends..." (Henry V 3:1)
"This day is called the feast of Crispian..." (Henry V 4:3)
"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world..." (Julius Caesar 1:2)
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen..." (Julius Caesar 3:2)
"All the world's a stage..." (As You Like It 2:7)
"If music be the food of love..." (Twelfth Night 1:1)
"O that this too too solid flesh would melt..." (Hamlet 1:2)
"To be, or not to bet..." (Hamlet 3:1)
"Alas, poor Yorick..." (Hamlet 5:1)
"Divinity of Hell..." (Othello 2:3)
"She should have died hereafter..." (Macbeth 5:5)
"The isle is full of noises..." (The Tempest 3:1)
"Our revels now are ended..." (The Tempest 4:1)
John Donne (1572 - 1631)
The Legacy (A)
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (A)
Holy Sonnet 10: "Death be not proud..." (A)
"Go and catch a falling star..." (A)
The Good Morrow (A)
The Ecstasy (A)
The Sun Rising (A)
The Triple Fool (A)
A Nocturnall upon St Lucy's Day (A)
Holy Sonnet: "At the round earth's.." (A)
The Fever (A)
"Sweetest love, I do not go..." (A)
The Curse (A)
The Canonisation (A)
The Anniversary (A)
The Relique (A)
The Funeral (A)
On his Mistress Going to Bed(A)
"No man is an island..." (Meditation 17) (1624)
Edmund Waller (1606 – 1687)
Song: "Go, lovely rose..."
John Milton (1608 – 1674)
On His Blindness (A)
On His Deceased Wife (A)
Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678)
To His Coy Mistress (A)
Jean de La Fontaine (1621 – 1695)
Le Loup et l'Agneau (A)
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
The Dunciad (Book 4, lines 627-656)
Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (A)
William Blake (1757 – 1827)
The Sick Rose (A)
The Tyger (A)
Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)
A man’s a man for a’ that (A)
John Anderson, My Jo, John
To a Mouse on Turning Her up in her Nest with a Plough (A)
To a Louse on Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church (A)
Ae Fond Kiss (A)
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (audio only (A)
Timtern Abbey (audio only (A)
Upon Westminster Bridge (A)
The World (A)
London 1802 (A)
"Surprised by joy" (A)
"It is a beauteous evening" (A)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (audio only) (A)
Kubla Khan (A)
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
The Destruction Of Sennacherib (A)
"She walks in beauty" (A)
"When we two parted" (A)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822)
Ode to the West Wind (audio only) (A)
To a Skylark (audio only) (A)
Ozymandias (A)
The Masque of Anarchy
"Music, when soft voices die" (A)
John Clare (1793 - 1864)
I Am!(A)
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
The Eve of St Agnes (audio only) (A)
La Belle Dame sans Merci (audio only) (A)
Ode to a Grecian Urn(A)
Ode To A Nightingale (A)
Ode to Autumn (A)
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer(A)
To Sleep(A)
Sonnet: "When I have fears" (A)
Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837)
L'Infinito (A)
Alla Luna (A)
Thomas Hood (1799 – 1845)
The Bridge of Sighs (A)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
Gettysburg Address (19/11/1863) (A)
Alfred de Musset (1810 – 1857)
Tristesse (A)
Robert Browning (1810 – 1857)
The Lost Leader (A)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1812 – 1889)
Spectator ab Extra (A)
The Latest Decalogue(A)
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Correspondances
La Vie Antérieure
La Chevelure (A)
Le Balcon
Harmonie du Soir (A)
Spleen: "J'ai plus de souvenirs..." (A)
Spleen: "Je suis comme le roi..." (A)
Spleen: "Quand le ciel bas et lourd..." (A)
L'Horloge (A)
Recueillement (A) L'Invitation au Voyage (A)
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898
Jabberwocky (A)
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
She at his Funeral (A)
The Voice (A)
In Time of the Breaking of Nations (A)
The Man he Killed (A)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 – 1898)
Brise Marine (A)
Gerard Manley Hopkins(1844 – 1889)
Pied Beauty (A)
Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896)
Colloque Sentimentale (A)
Chanson d'Automne (A)
Claire de Lune (A)
Ariettes Oubliées III: "Il pleure dans mon coeur..." (A)
L'Heure Exquise
Mandoline (A)
Green (A)
A Clymène
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891)
Départ
A. E. Housman (1859 – 1936)
Shropshire Lad XL: "Into ny heart..." (A)
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)
"When you are old and gray..." (A)
The Second Coming (A)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936)
Tommy (A)
Danny Deaver (A)
Antonio Machado (1875 – 1939)
A Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos (A)
Edward Thomas (1878 – 1917)
Adelstrop (A)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 – 1918)
Le Pont Mirabeau (A)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881 – 1959)
"Intelijencia ..."
"Vino, primero, pura..."
"Yo no soy yo..."
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967)
The General (A)
T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Journey of the Magi (A)
The Hollow Men (A)
Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966)
Requiem (A)
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1917)
Anthem for Doomed Youth (A)
Parable of the Old Men and the Young (A)
Futility (A)
The Kind Ghosts (A)
On Seeing a Piece of Our Artillery Brought into Action (A)
Strange Meeting (A)
"Dulce et decorum est..." (A)
Paul Eluard (1895 – 1952)
Liberté
Federico García Lorca (1898 – 1936)
Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejías (A)
Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956)
Die Lösung
Jacques Prévert (1900 - 1977)
Alicante
Feuilles Mortes (A)
Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 – 1968)
Ed è subito sera (A)
Stevie Smith (1902 – 1971)
Not Waving but Drowning (A)
John Betjeman (1906 – 1984)
The Cottage Hospital
W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973)
Funeral Blues (A)
As I Walked Out One Evening (A)
Lullaby (A)
Musée des Beaux Arts (A)
Louis Macneice (1907 - 1963)
Bagpipe Music
Meeting Point (A)
A. D. Hope (1907 - 2000)
His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell (A)
Czeslaw Milosz (1911 – 2004)
You Who Wronged
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)
Under Milk Wood (opening lines) (A)
"Do not go gentle..." (A)
Fern Hill (A)
"In my craft or sullen art..." (A)
Captain Hamish Blair
Bloody Orkney
Primo Levi (1919 - 1987)
Se Questo è un Uomo (A)
Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012)
Biographical information
The Terrorist, He's watching
Going Home
Martin Luther King, Jnr. (1929 – 1968)
"I have a dream..." (28/08/1963) (A)
Jenny Joseph (1932 - 2018)
Warning (A)
Kit Wright (1944 - )
The Roller in the Woods