Read by Ghizela Rowe & Richard Mitchley (Unabridged: 17mins)

Featuring poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rudyard Kipling, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Smith & 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 - Spring - An Introduction

2 - Ode on the Spring by Thomas Gray

3 - Sonnet VIII - To Spring by Charlotte Smith

4 - Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

5 - I Have a Bird in Spring by Emily Dickinson

6 - Spring by Alfred Lord Tennyson

7 - Prairie Spring by Willa Cather

8 - In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling

9 - Spring in New Hampshire by Claude McKay

10 - Spring's Bedfellow by William Morris

11 - Spring Showers by James Thomson

12 - Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale

13 - These, I, Singing in Spring by Walt Whitman