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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 |
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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 |
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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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