Master recordings in English literature: Lyric Poetry

BOOK 1. Death the leveller / Shirley -- Jerusalem ; The Tiger / Blake -- The Reverie of poor Susan ; The Solitary Reaper ; She dwelt among the untrodden ways / Wordsworth -- Kubla Khan / Coleridge -- The War song of Dinas Vawr / Peacock -- La Belle dame sans merci ; Meg Merrilies / Keats -- The Splendour falls on castle walls / Tennyson -- The Three wise men of Gotham / Peacock -- Inscription for a bed at Kelmscott Manor / Morris -- Weathers / Hardy -- Pied beauty / Hopkins -- The Shepherdess / Meynell -- Loveliest of trees the cherry now / Housman -- Gypsy girl / Hodgson -- The Kingfisher ; Early morn / Davies -- All that's past ; Song of enchantment / de la Mare -- If I should ever by chance grow rich / Thomas -- The County Mayo ; The Fifteen acres / Stephens -- Romance / Turner -- Forefathers / Blunden. BOOK 2. Lyke Wake dirge / Traditional -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day / Shakespeare -- My sweetest Lesbia / Campion -- To Apollo / Herrick -- On his blindness / Milton -- My love is like a red, red rose / Burns -- The world is too much with us / Wordsworth -- Summer evening / Clare -- Ode on a grecian urn ; On first looking into Chapman's Homer / Keats -- The Darkling thrush ; At a lunar eclipse / Hardy -- Wenlock edge ; When lads were home from labour ; Tell me not here / Housman -- Tam i' the kirk / Jacob -- Mad as the mist and snow ; Imitated from the Japanese / Yeats -- It freezes, all across a soundless sky / Belloc -- Another spring ; The Railway junction / de la Mare -- Tree at my window ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Fire and ice ; The Road not taken / Frost -- Words ; Lights out / Thomas -- Snake / Lawrence.