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I intended this part of the website to be a collection of some favorite poems, with sound clips of readings by me.  I have started putting some other sound clips on here, though, so there is no telling where this will lead.  It is still mainly clips of me reading poems, though.  If I'm not going to recite poems here, I'll be doing it in my car, and here is safer.

Should you feel so moved by any of the readings as to want to pay me for my time and trouble, I have no problem with that whatsoever.  If you have a PayPal account, you can send me twenty bucks via the button on my Fire from the Sun page.  Or you can mail me a check in care of National Review (215 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016).  I repeat:  I have absolutely no problem with this. 

— John Derbyshire

Date of reading Title Author Reader/Performer
Feb. 3, 2007 Villanelle:  "It is the pain..." William Empson JD
Feb. 3, 2007 Winter William Shakespeare JD
Jan. 2, 2007 I Remember, I Remember Thomas Hood JD
Oct. 26, 2006 Night Mooring at Maple Bridge Zhang Ji JD
Sept. 28, 2006 I Am John Clare JD
Sept. 11, 2006 New Approach Needed Kingsley Amis JD
(2001?) A Song of Valediction: Dreaming I Roamed on TianMu Mountain Li Bai Sun DaoLin
July 27, 2006 Late-Flowering Lust John Betjeman JD
July 25, 2006 Ode to a Nightingale John Keats JD
July 25, 2006 The Sergeant's Weddin' Rudyard Kipling JD
July 24, 2006 Canterbury Tales (lines 1-18 of the Prologue) Geoffrey Chaucer JD
July 12, 2006 The Three Fishers Charles Kingsley JD
(Not known) Terence, This is Stupid Stuff Alfred Edward Housman James Mason
July 12, 2006 A Birthday Christina Georgina Rossetti JD
July 12, 2006 Norfolk John Betjeman JD
July 12, 2006 Leda and the Swan William Butler Yeats JD
July 12, 2006 To the Matterhorn Thomas Hardy JD
May 22, 2006 La route est dure (Unknown) Georgia Brown
May 1, 2006 Tao Te Ching, Stanza 21 Lao Tzu JD
May 1, 2006 Paradise Regained (extract from Book III) John Milton JD
May 1, 2006 Felix Randal Gerard Manley Hopkins JD
Apr. 18, 2006 Imagination Dead Imagine Samuel Beckett JD
Feb. 17, 2006 This Be The Verse Philip Larkin JD
Feb. 15, 2006 Drake's Drum Sir Henry Newbolt JD
Feb. 9, 2006 The Song from Cymbeline William Shakespeare JD
Feb. 3, 2006 Go, Lovely Rose Edmund Waller JD
Feb. 3, 2006 The Gods of the Copybook Headings Rudyard Kipling JD
Dec. 23, 2005 Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns Peter Dawson
Dec. 22, 2005 On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet Samuel Johnson JD
Dec. 20, 2005 In the Workhouse: Christmas Day George R. Sims JD
Dec. 2, 2005 Eternal Father, Strong to Save William Whiting Peter Dawson
Dec. 1, 2005 Route Marchin' Rudyard Kipling Peter Dawson
Nov. 30, 2005 When the Sergeant-Major's on Parade Ernest Longstaffe Peter Dawson
Nov. 30, 2005 The Aeneid Virgil JD
Nov. 25, 2005 Magna est Veritas Coventry Patmore JD
Nov. 25, 2005 Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn Robert Burns JD
Nov. 25, 2005 Heraclitus William Cory JD
Nov. 25, 2005 Danny Deever Rudyard Kipling JD
Nov. 24, 2005 Doctor Johnson's letter to Lord Chesterfield Samuel Johnson JD
Nov. 24, 2005 A Slice of Wedding Cake Robert Graves JD
Nov. 24, 2005 Lessons of the War Henry Reed JD
Nov. 23, 2005 The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna Charles Wolfe JD
Nov. 23, 2005 Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson JD

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