Poems read aloud

Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach

W. H. Auden – Song of the Master and the Boatswain

Elizabeth Bishop – I am in need of music

Billy Collins – Forgetfulness

e.e. cummings – Spring is like a perhaps hand

Emily Dickinson – After great pain, a formal feeling comes

John Donne – No Man is an Island

Du Fu – Full Moon

Robert Frost – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Tony Harrison – Amazon

John Hollander – Adam’s Task

Gerard Manley Hopkins – The Windhover

John Keats – On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

Giacomo Leopardi – Infinity

Louis MacNeice – Apple Blossom

Pablo Neruda – Ode to the Artichoke

Craig Raine – A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

Rainer Maria Rilke – Evening

William Shakespeare – Sonnet 29

Percy Bysshe Shelley – Ozymandias

John Skelton – To Mistress Margaret Hussey

Wallace Stevens – The Snow Man

Wisława Szymborska – Psalm

Walt Whitman – A noiseless patient spider

William Carlos Williams 10/22

W. B. Yeats – He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven