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Happy reading!


0:00 Poems that have haunted me over the years
0:10 Emily Dickinson 'Had this one Day not been'
02:21 Alfred, Lord Tennyson 'Tithonus'
04:20 W.B. Yeats 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'
07:35 Shelley 'Ode to the West Wind'
11:08 Robert Browning 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'
14:48 Keats 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'
17:30 Donne 'A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy's Day'
19:02 Shakespeare 'Sonnet 121'
20:33 Share your favourite poem with me

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