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On March 18th 2020, I asked for requests on Twitter: if anyone wanted me to read a poem they liked, I'd record it for them.  

650-odd suggestions later, here we are. Several new recordings go up every day. Some lovely people are helping, and poets have been very kind and generous too. 

Hope you enjoy them. Sam x

The #PandemicPoems Poetry Jukebox I, read by Samuel West and friends. Poems 1 - 500

Emily.

Classic Poems & Poetry

in the bleak midwinter // 2023
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in the bleak midwinter

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

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'Because I Could Not Stop For Death' by E Dickinson read by Helena Bonham Carter(THE LOVE BOOK APP)

Poem as friend to Carole Moffat

'Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land'

“I discovered this poem in my late teens after visiting the Laing Gallery and seeing the pre-Raphaelite paintings. For me it’s not about death and grief but rather It’s acted as a force of resilience and survival.”

Carole brought this poem to The Poetry Exchange at Durham Book Festival. www.durhambookfestival.com 

The poem is read by Rebecca Manley and Fiona Lesley Bennett.

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Remember by Christina Rossetti
         
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

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Remember by Christina Rossetti

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare (female)

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In Flanders Fields

Merchandise 👕

01 The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

02 The Lion And Albert by Marriott Edgar

03 I Opened a Book by Julia Donaldson

04 The Good Morrow by John Donne

05 Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Thursday 2nd July. Day 106 of Pandemic Poems

334 After Great Pain A Formal Feeling Comes by Emily Dickinson, read by Emma Fielding

Sunday 16th August 2020. Day 151 of Pandemic Poems

463 Because I Could Not Stop For Death (479) by Emily Dickinson, read by Hattie Morahan

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463 Because I Could Not Stop For Death (479) by Emily Dickinson, read by Hattie Morahan

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