Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 18mins)

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 - Fathers - An Introduction

2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth

3 - Any Father to Any Son by F B Money-Coutts

4 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work

5 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet

6 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling

7 - Portrait of My Father as a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke

8 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane

9 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

10 - The Father by Katharine Tynan

11 - Sonnet 37 - As a Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare

12 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce

13 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns