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Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 19mins)
Featuring poems by Henry Alford, Laurence Binyon, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Hafiz & others.
The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.
Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.<p><p>Our classic poets, including Phyllis Wheatley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Jane Bronte, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sara Teasdale and a wealth of others, mirror these thoughts and desires in ways that express what the human condition really is; a landscape of feelings and emotions, of friendship and family, of love and an ever-changing world that we call our own.
In this compilation -
| 1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction | 
| 2 - Stanzas For the First of August by James Monroe Whitfield | 
| 3 - Hymn For the First of August by John Pierpoint | 
| 4 - An Hymn to the Morning by Phyllis Wheatley | 
| 5 - Sonnet XLII To GWC August 1st 1846 by Christopher Pearse Cranch | 
| 6 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive | 
| 7 - As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins | 
| 8 - The 4th of August by Laurence Binyon | 
| 9 - August Afternoon by Laurence Binyon | 
| 10 - To Mrs Jane Forster, on Her Birthday, August 4th 1724 by Henry Baker | 
| 11 - Composed Near Calais, August 7th 1802 by William Wordsworth | 
| 12 - Grant at Rest August 8th 1885 by James Whitcomb Riley | 
| 13 - I H B Died August 11th 1898 by William Winter | 
| 14 - August 1865 by Carolyn Clive | 
| 15 - August 19th 1830 by Henry Alford | 
| 16 - August 1914 by Isaac Rosenberg | 
| 17 - August the 22nd 1830 by Henry Alford | 
| 18 - Calais August 1802 by William Wordsworth | 
| 19 - Memorials of a Tour in Scotland August 1803 by William Wordsworth | 
| 20 - Lines Written in August by Thomas Babbington Macaulay | 
| 21 - The Winds Tidings in August 1870 by Augusta Davies Webster | 
| 22 - Love and Death by Ernest Radford | 
| 23 - August by Algernon Charles Swinburne | 
| 24 - At Sundown by Daniel Sheehan | 
| 25 - August by James Whitcomb Riley | 
| 26 - After Sunset by William Allingham | 
| 27 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew | 
| 28 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar | 
| 29 - A Summer Evening Churchyard by Percy Bsysshe Shelley | 
| 30 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale | 
| 31 - An August Night by Radclyffe Hall | 
| 32 - Moonlight Summer Moonlight by Emily Jane Bronte | 
| 33 - From Piccadilly In August by John Freeman | 
| 34 - An August Midnight by Thomas Hardy | 
| 35 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau | 
| 36 - Snake by D H Lawrence | 
| 37 - Sonnet LIII, August by Christopher Pearse Cranch | 
| 38 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield | 
| 39 - Seashore by Tagore | 
| 40 - The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune | 
| 41 - Indian Summer by Henry Van Dyke | 
| 42 - Indian Summer by Sara Teasdale | 
| 43 - An Indian Summer Day on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay | 
| 44 - Summer Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox | 
| 45 - A Draught of Sunshine by John Keats | 
| 46 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz | 
| 47 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne | 
| 48 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore | 
| 49 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti | 
| 50 - Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will and Testament by Thomas Nashe | 
| 51 - L' Envoi (An Extract) by Rudyard Kipling |