Name: 44 Cargoes by John Masefield by Samuel West #PandemicPoems in Poems
Duration: 1 min 49 s
Description: 31st March 2020. Day 13 of Pandemic Poems

We used to sing this poem at my primary school and it was the one which really helped me to love poetry with a passion.

Poems

31st March 2020. Day 13 of Pandemic Poems

44 Cargoes by John Masefield

64 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thursday 9th April 2020. Day 22 (not 20) of Pandemic Poems

69 The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Saturday 11th April 2020. Day 24 (not 22) of Pandemic Poems

73 Church Going by Philip Larkin

93 The Horses by Ted Hughes, read by Emma Fielding

100 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, read by Eddie Redmayne

Sunday 27th September 2020. Day 192 of Pandemic Poems

587 The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop, read by Jane Slavin

Monday 28th September 2020. Day 193 of Pandemic Poems

589 The Life that I Have by Leo Marks

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

Illustration by Marguerite Davis, from Tirra Lirra : Rhymes Old and New (1932)

592 Kindness To Animals by Laura E Richards

593 Ant And Elephant by Spike Milligan

Wednesday 30th September 2020. Day 195 of Pandemic Poems

594 Morfudd fel yr Haul (Morfudd like the Sun) by Dafydd Ap Gwilym, read by Ioan Gruffudd

595 Herbst (Autumn) by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Moritz Kiermeier and Mark Edel-Hunt

596 Den halvfärdiga himlen (The half-finished heaven) by Tomas Tranströmer, read by Michaela Caunter

Thursday 1st October September 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

598 I Have Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova, read by Tommy Millar and Jane Slavin

Thursday 1st October 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of Johnson and Alcock literary agency

599 Warning by Jenny Joseph, read by Katherine Parkinson

Actor and sometimes director. Searchable list of poems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCjGqAU4uz0dwo7X8e3MBnGorHOT0kYeUDYxLwEKeU4/htmlview#gid=0

44 Cargoes by John Masefield

Samuel West #PandemicPoems

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