First released: 17th February 1998
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Disc 1
- 1.Opening0:58
- 2.Sir Patrick Spens (Anonymous)3:46
- 3.Edward, Edward (Anonymous)3:20
- 4.Western Wind (Anonymous)0:45
- 5.Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)1:21
- 6.They Flee From Me That Sometime Did Me Seek (Sir Thomas Wyatt)1:46
- 7.Sir Walter Ralegh (1554?-1618)1:30
- 8.The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (Sir Walter Ralegh)2:05
- 9.Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)1:37
- 10.With How Sad Steps, O Moon (Sir Philip Sidney)2:06
- 11.Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)1:38
- 12.The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (Christopher Marlowe)1:55
- 13.William Shakespeare (1564-1593)1:49
- 14.Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (William Shakespeare)1:53
- 15.When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought (William Shakespeare)2:04
- 16.Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (William Shakespeare)1:11
- 17.Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (William Shakespeare)2:05
- 18.The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame (William Shakespeare)1:41
- 19.That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold (William Shakespeare)2:36
- 20.When Icicles Hang by the Wall (William Shakespeare)1:12
- 21.John Donne (1572-1631)1:45
- 22.Death, Be Not Proud (John Donne)2:17
- 23.Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God (John Donne)2:22
- 24.At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (John Donne)1:36
- 25.The Good Morrow (John Donne)2:13
- 26.The Sun Rising (John Donne)2:34
- 27.A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / John Donne3:09
- 28.Go and Catch a Falling Star (John Donne)2:23
- 29.Ben Jonson (1572-1637)1:45
- 30.On My First Son (Ben Jonson)1:42
- 31.Song: To Celia (Ben Jonson)1:09
- 32.Still to be Neat (Ben Jonson)1:02
- 33.Robert Herrick 1591-16741:23
- 34.To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick)1:23
- 35.Upon Julia's Clothes (Robert Herrick)0:53
- 36.Delight in Disorder (Robert Herrick)1:20
- 37.George Herbert 1593-16331:00
- 38.Love III (George Herbert)1:51
- 39.The Pulley (George Herbert)2:15
- 40.Virture (George Herbert)1:38
- 41.Thomas Carrey 1595-16390:44
Disc 2
- 1.Ask Me No More Where Love Bestows (Thomas Carew)1:47
- 2.Edmund Waller (1606-1687)1:20
- 3.Go, Lovely Rose / Edmund Waller1:38
- 4.John Milton (1608-1674)1:34
- 5.Lycidas (John Milton)14:58
- 6.Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)1:04
- 7.Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Sir John Suckling)1:41
- 8.Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)1:05
- 9.To Lucasta, Going to the Wars (Richard Lovelace)1:35
- 10.To Althea, from Prison (Richard Lovelace)2:33
- 11.Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)1:14
- 12.To his coy mistress - Andrew Marvell3:35
- 13.The Garden (Andrew Marvell)4:20
- 14.Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)0:59
- 15.The Retreat (Henry Vaughan)2:51
- 16.Thomas Gray (1716-1771)1:03
- 17.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray)8:36
- 18.Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat (Thomas Gray)2:54
- 19.William Blake (1757-1827)1:15
- 20.The Tyger (William Blake)1:55
- 21.London (William Blake)2:17
- 22.And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time (William Blake)1:58
- 23.The Lamb (William Blake)2:05
- 24.Auguries of Innocence - William Blake7:49
- 25.Robert Burns (1759-1796)1:43
Disc 3
- 1.A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)1:44
- 2.William Wordsworth (1770-1850)1:12
- 3.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (William Wordsworth)1:52
- 4.The World is Too Much With Us (William Wordsworth)2:36
- 5.The Solitary Reaper (William Wordsworth)2:57
- 6.Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (William Wordsworth)2:12
- 7.A Slumber did my Spirit Seal (William Wordsworth)0:49
- 8.Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)2:57
- 9.Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge5:40
- 10.George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)2:22
- 11.So, We'll Go No More A-Roving - Byron1:04
- 12.She Walks in Beauty (Byron)1:22
- 13.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)1:27
- 14.Ode to the West Wind (Percy Bysshe Shelley)6:21
- 15.Ozymandias (Percy Bysshe Shelley)2:06
- 16.To a Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley)5:45
- 17.John Keats (1795-1821)1:38
- 18.To Autumn (John Keats)3:32
- 19.La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats4:44
- 20.On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (John Keats)2:36
- 21.Ode to a Nightingale (John Keats)7:43
- 22.Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)1:54
- 23.How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)1:41
- 24.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)2:27
- 25.To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe)2:08
- 26.Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)3:28
Disc 4
- 1.Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)1:47
- 2.Break, Break, Break (Tennyson)1:32
- 3.The eagle (Tennyson)0:51
- 4.Ulysses (Tennyson)7:39
- 5.Robert Browning (1812-1889)2:02
- 6.My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)6:16
- 7.Meeting at Night (Robert Browning)2:06
- 8.Home Thoughts from Abroad (Robert Browning)1:47
- 9.Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)1:10
- 10.The Latest Decalogue (Arthur Hugh Clough)1:45
- 11.Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)1:22
- 12.The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe2:54
- 13.Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)1:00
- 14.Dover Beach (Matther Arnold)3:58
- 15.Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)1:57
- 16.Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)2:00
- 17.I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died (Emily Dickinson)2:00
- 18.A Narrow Fellow in the Grass (Emily Dickinson)1:29
- 19.Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)1:51
- 20.Jabbberwocky (Lewis Carroll)3:11
- 21.'Thomas Hardy 1840-1928...'2:06
- 22.The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy)3:51
- 23.Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)3:01
- 24.Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)2:17
- 25.Spring and Fall (Gerard Manley Hopkins)1:54
- 26.Windhover (Gerard Manley Hopkins)3:23
- 27.W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)1:08
- 28.The Second Coming (W.B. Yeats)2:41
- 29.The Lake of Innisfree (W.B. Yeats)1:41
Disc 5
- 1.Leda and the Swan (W.B. Yeats)2:44
- 2.Sailing to Byzantium (W.B. Yeats)3:46
- 3.Ernest Dawson (1867-1900)1:11
- 4.Non Sum Qualis Eram Banae Sub Regno Cynarae (Ernest Dawson)3:02
- 5.Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)1:14
- 6.Miniver Cheevy (Edwin Arlington Robinson)2:39
- 7.Mr. Flood's Party (Edwin Arlington Robinson)4:14
- 8.Walter Da la Mare (1873-1956)1:20
- 9.The Listeners (Walter De la Mare)2:27
- 10.Robert Frost (1874-1963)1:36
- 11.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost2:55
- 12.Mending Wall (Robert Frost)4:23
- 13.T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)1:59
- 14.The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T. S. Eliot9:35
- 15.Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)1:24
- 16.Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen)3:51
- 17.W.H. Auden (1907-1973)1:16
- 18.Musee des Beaux Arts - W. H. Auden2:43
- 19.Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)1:39
- 20.My Papa's Waltz (Theodore Roethke)1:35
- 21.Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)0:46
- 22.The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (Randall Jarrell)1:18
- 23.Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)1:23
- 24.Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas1:53
- 25.Fern Hill (Dylan Thomas)4:30
- 26.A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London (Dylan Thomas)3:35