The Poetry Hour - Volume 19

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings.Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Robert Herrick and Herman Melville as well as themes on Westminster Memorials, December and more.All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes. Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores. This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that. Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey.The Poetry Hour – Volume 19Robert Herrick. An IntroductionAn Hymn to the Muses by Robert HerrickHis Farewell to Sack by Robert HerrickHis Return To London by Robert HerrickTo Electra by Robert HerrickTo Find God by Robert HerrickThe Lake Poets. An IntroductionFrost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inchcape Rock by Robert SoutheyI Travell’d Amongst Unknown Men by William WordsworthIt Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William WordsworthDecemberCome, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWinter Stores by Charlotte BronteThe Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord TennysonDecember 27th 1879 by George MacDonaldHerman Melville. An IntroductionJohn Marr & Other Sailors by Herman MelvilleFather Mapples Hymn (from Moby Dick) by Herman MelvilleGettysburg by Herman MelvilleThe Berg, A Dream by Herman MelvilleDupont’s Round Fight, November 1851 by Herman MelvilleAurora Borealis by Herman MelvilleShelley’s Vision by Herman MelvilleThe March into Virginia by Herman MelvilleWestminster Memorials – An IntroductionFirst Love by John ClareTo an Infant by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Village by Oliver GoldsmithHis Meditation Upon Death by Robert HerrickVirtue by George HerbertWhen I Have Fears by John KeatsWilliam Shakespeare – A Tribute in VerseOn Shakespeare by John MiltonShakespeare by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Spirit of Shakespeare by George MeredithShakespeare by Matthew Arnold