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"Neurasthenia" by Mary Robinson (poetry reading)
Neurasthenia is the old-fashioned name for what was later called ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) and still more recently CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndro...
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"The Secret of My Endurance" by Charles Bukowski (poetry reading)
He's kidding you - but not much.
I still get letters in the mail, mostly from cracked-up
men in tiny rooms with factory jobs or no jobs who are
li...
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"Oil and Blood" by Jamie McKendrick (poetry reading)
Jamie McKendrick is from Liverpool and his poetry has won several awards.
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Collections are availabl...
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"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath (poetry reading)
I do not, as a rule, attempt to read Sylvia Plath. I admire her poetry but I'm not sure my voice can convey the right emotions. However, I don't ...
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"The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy (poetry reading)
The Song Thrush has almost disappeared from country and gardens in England. In Hardy's time it would have been quite common.
Thomas Hardy's sta...
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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens (poetry reading)
A poem that seems like a translation from chinese. Wallace Stevens was a great poet - Sunday Morning is sublime - but I get the uncomfortable feel...
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"I Know a Bank Where the Wild Thyme Blows" from A Midsummer Night's Dream
The first line is often misquoted "whereon the wild thyme blows"
Shakespeare presents a dilemma to the actor. The poetry and the meaning can be ...
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"Touch Me" by Stanley Kunitz (poetry reading)
He won a Pulitzer Prize, became poet laureate and he lived to be 100 years old.
He was about 90 years old when he wrote this poem: it's worth ...
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"Darkness" by Lord Byron (poetry reading)
Some end of the world prophesies here:
http://www.endoftheworld201...
Paintings:
http://apocalypse2011.com/t...
Guide t...
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"The English Are So Nice!" by D H Lawrence (poetry reading)
He didn't just write Lady Chatterley's Lover. D H Lawrence at the Poetry Foundation:
http://www.poetryfoundation...
The picture...
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Sonnet 1 "From fairest creatures we desire increase" by William Shakespeare (poetry reading)
Shakespeare dedicated his sonnets with these words,
"To the Onlie begetter of these insuing sonnets, Mr. W. H. All happinesse and that eternitie p...
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"Carrion Comfort" by Gerard Manley Hopkins (poetry reading)
There are three versions of this sonnet but this one is the most commonly reprinted.
Also there's a modern horror novel of the same name, by Dan ...
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"The Way Through the Woods" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry reading)
Tthe last picture came from here:
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They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years a...
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me" from Macbeth by William Shakespeare (speech)
Pictures from Orson Welles' 1948 film of the Scottish play.
Here's Ian McKellen's version:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
and Patric...
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"Beeny Cliff" by Thomas Hardy (poetry reading)
O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea,
And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free --
The woman whom I love...
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"Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (poetry reading)
Every poet should write at least one monumental sonnet - this is Shelley's.
The best version is by Vincent Price
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bongojamus
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7 months ago
Amazon Rainforest Relaxation Video
DON'T LIKE THE MUSIC? CLICK HERE FOR A VERSION WITHOUT IT!
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Music by Nature Whispers. Video by To...
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Sounds of Rain and Thunder on the River
High quality hour-length MP3: http://whitenoisemp3s.com
This is an on-location omni-directional binaural field recording from the bank of the Deer...
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The sound of rain w/o music 2
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Go here to get your 60 minute MP3 or CD of relaxing 'light rain and thunder here'
meh im...
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The sound of rain w/o music
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The Raven: Read by Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken reading The Raven, I was going to make it really visually trippy but thought Poe's image was trippy enough!! Walken has the perf...
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