Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 21mins)

Featuring poems by James Joyce, John Keats, John Ruskin, Sara Teasdale & others.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

In this compilation - 

1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Death - An Introduction

2 - Death Be Not Proud by John Donne

3 - Death by Rainer Maria Rilke

4 - Elegy Before Death by Edna St Vincent Millay

5 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu

6 - After Death by Fanny Parnell

7 - Death by John Clare

8 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson

9 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson

10 - Such Such Is Death by Charles Sorley

11 - I Would Fain Die a Dry Death by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

12 - A Death Bed by Rudyard Kipling

13 - The Death of the First Born by Paul Laurence Dunbar