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Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 28mins)
Featuring poems by Wilfred Owen, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lewis Carroll, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare & others.
Our own lives are possible because of fathers. It may be as limited as a procreational act and we never see them again. But more hopefully these are kind, caring and protective relationships that are central to our lives helping us to explore and achieve the people we want to be. From the childhood dependency of early years to sometimes troublesome teens to independence thereafter they help guide, advise, cajole and share their lives with those they most love.
Our classic poets who range in stature from William Blake to William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anne Bradstreet fill their verse with their own unique take on just what a father is. What he should be and what he can be. These poems give us both an insight into the role of the father in previous generations and the mirror of how some things do not change.
Beyond the nurture and the genetics one fact remains a constant, these relationships go both ways; we need them and they need us. But for many that can remain unsaid. Those words can mean much and should be often thought and sometimes said.
In this compilation -
1 - Fifty Shades of Fathers - An Introduction |
2 - Anecdote for Fathers by William Wordsworth |
3 - Laus - Infantium by William Canton |
4 - Etude Realiste by Algernon Charles Swinburne |
5 - To An Infant by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
6 - A Prayer for My Daughter by William Butler Yeats |
7 - My Serious Son by W S Landor |
8 - Sonnet 3 - Look in Thy Glass and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare |
9 - I Am Your Father by Daniel Sheehan |
10 - When Mandy Combs Her Head by Katherine Chapman Tillman |
11 - To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet |
12 - My Hearts Leaps Up by William Wordsworth |
13 - To My Father on His Birthday by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
14 - Any Father To Any Son by F B Money-Coutts |
15 - The Sins of the Fathers by Stephen Crane |
16 - Portrait of My Father As a Young Man by Rainer Maria Rilke |
17 - My Father's Chair by Rudyard Kipling |
18 - Inscription by Eugene Field |
19 - If by Rudyard Kipling |
20 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce |
21 - Our Fathers of Old by Rudyard Kipling |
22 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato |
23 - Your Are Old (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll |
24 - Sonnet 37 - As A Decrepit Father Takes Delight by William Shakespeare |
25 - God Gave to Me a Child in Part by Robert Louis Stevenson |
26 - Sonnet 13 - O That You Were Yourself; But, Love You Are by William Shakespeare |
27 - A Little Boy Lost by William Blake |
28 - Alec Yeaten's Son by Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
29 - Lord Ullin's Daughter by Thomas Campbell |
30 - Come Home Father by Henry Clay Work |
31 - Come Up from the Fields Father by Walt Whitman |
32 - Faith and Dispondency by Emily Jane Bronte |
33 - Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson |
34 - To The Memory of My Dear and Honoured Father by Anne Bradstreet |
35 - Lament by Edna St Vincent Millay |
36 - That Endless Loop by Daniel Sheehan |
37 - Epitaph on My Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns |
38 - The Father by Katharine Tynan |
39 - The Childless Father by William Wordsworth |
40 - Any Soldier To His Son by Anonymous |
41 - O Lord Our Father by Mark Twain |
42 - The Parable of the Old Man by Wilfred Owen |
43 - On My First Son by Ben Jonson |
44 - Of His Dear Son Gervase by Sir John Beaumont |
45 - Epitaph Upon a Child That Died by Robert Herrick |
46 - Lines Written October the 23rd 1836, A Few Hours After the Birth of My First Child Henry Alford |
47 - Little Brown Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
48 - On My First Daughter by Ben Jonson |
49 - Epistle From a Father to a Child in Her Grave by Patrick Branwell Bronte |
50 - To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God by Tom Kettle |
51 - Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling |