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Read by Richard Mitchley, Nigel Planer & Ghizela Rowe (Unabridged: 1hr 26mins)
Featuring poems by Tagore, Lord Byron, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Laurence Dunbar & others.
Our senses revel in the incomparable majesty of the work of Mother Nature. The structure of the landscape, the multi-coloured mantle of trees and fauna, the myriad animals that wander and inhabit this glorious Earth. Nature conducts symphonies of sound as her world goes from day into the inky embrace of night.
Our ears and eyes are constantly bathed in the wonder of her ways; the soft drizzle of rain from soft grey clouds, a wave caressing the shore and the ravenous colours of a departing sunset.
Her invisible heartbeat is everywhere and for everyone. Indeed, whenever we look and listen to the vastness of Nature’s beauty she can placate our anger and soothe our pain, despite our knowledge of her destructive forces that create myriad tragedies. Still her vistas can energise us, feed our hearts and souls and prompt us to muse on the mysteries of life and death.
Our sense of wonder is sometimes hard to describe, our feelings can overwhelm us or even leave us mute in astonishment. However, help is at hand. Our classic poets including the likes of Wordsworth, Whitman, Clare, and Dickinson use words in wondrous way to open our eyes and ears to the bounty and the plenty of Nature in fifty timeless classic.
In this compilation -
1 - Fifty Shades of Nature - An Introduction |
2 - from Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman |
3 - Nature's Hymn to the Deity by John Clare |
4 - On a Lane in Spring by John Clare |
5 - Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth |
6 - An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
7 - An April Afternoon by Alexander Anderson |
8 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge |
9 - In May by William Henry Davies |
10 - The Darkling Thrush By Thomas Hardy |
11 - The Thrush's Nest by John Clare |
12 - To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
13 - Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats |
14 - Sonnet LVII - Summit of Skiddaw, July 7th 1838 by Henry Alford |
15 - Nature, The Gentlest Mother by Emily Dickinson |
16 - A July Afternoon by the Pond by Walt Whitman |
17 - An August Evening, 1865 by Carolyn Clive |
18 - The Summer Rain by Henry David Thoreau |
19 - August Moonrise by Sara Teasdale |
20 - In Autumn Moonlight by Robert Seymour Bridges |
21 - Daylight and Moonlight by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
22 - At the Sunrise, 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
23 - After Sunset by William Allingham |
24 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield |
25 - In the Fields by Charlotte Mew |
26 - Evening by Paul Laurence Dunbar |
27 - I Have Heard the Sunset Song of the Birches by Stephen Crane |
28 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer |
29 - Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
30 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth |
31 - Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins |
32 - Nature's Lady by George Eliot |
33 - Seashore by Tagore |
34 - The Dark Blue Sea by Byron |
35 - By the Sea by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
36 - The Little Waves of Breffney by Eva Gore-Booth |
37 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield |
38 - The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W B Yeats |
39 - The Cloud on the Mountain by Alama Iqbal |
40 - Sonnet 33 - Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen by William Shakespeare |
41 - Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying by A E Housman |
42 - The Autumn by Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
43 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey |
44 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan |
45 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
46 - The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
47 - from The Happy Farmer by Iolo Morganwg |
48 - The Calf by Thomas Hardy |
49 - To A Mouse by Robert Burns |
50 - Snake by D H Lawrence |
51 - The Tyger by William Blake |