SEVEN AGES - An Anthology of Poetry with Music

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As You Like It, Act II Scene VII: 'Seven Ages' (more info)
Ian McKellen, reader


1. As You Like It, Act II Scene VII: 'Seven Ages' - 2:08


Baby Song (more info)
Catherine McCormack, reader
Thomas Gunn,


2. Baby Song - 0:57


The Victory (more info)
Glenda Jackson, reader
Anne Stevenson,


3. The Victory - 1:05


Surgeons (more info)
Gayle Hunnicutt, reader
Emily Dickinson,


4. Surgeons - 0:20


The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2: 'Fancy' (more info)
Mark Rylance, actor


5. The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2: 'Fancy' - 0:51


The Guppy (more info)
Prunella Scales, reader


6. The Guppy - 0:21


The Quangle Wangle's Hat (more info)
Edward Lear,
Connie Booth, reader


7. The Quangle Wangle's Hat - 2:30


I Remember, I Remember (more info)
Ralph Fiennes, reader
Thomas Hood,


8. I Remember, I Remember - 1:22


The Fairies (more info)
William Allingham,
Juliet Stevenson, reader


9. The Fairies - 1:55


A Parental Ode (more info)
Ralph Fiennes, reader
Thomas Hood,


10. A Parental Ode - 2:39


My Shadow (more info)
Stella Gonet, reader
Robert Louis Stevenson,


11. My Shadow - 1:26


The Owl and The Pussy Cat (more info)
John Cleese, reader
Edward Lear,


12. The Owl and The Pussy Cat - 1:26


Sneezles (more info)
Composed by: Alan Alexander Milne
Andrew Sachs, reader


13. Sneezles - 1:28


The Walrus and The Carpenter (more info)
Lewis Carroll,
Joss Ackland, reader


14. The Walrus and The Carpenter - 4:12


Jellyfish (more info)
Ted Hughes,
Leo Sayer, reader


15. Jellyfish - 0:29


The Donkey (more info)
G.K. Chesterton,
Emma Fielding, reader


16. The Donkey - 0:57


The Common Cormorant (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
Andrew Sachs, reader


17. The Common Cormorant - 0:28


Where Go The Boats (more info)
Stella Gonet, reader
Robert Louis Stevenson,


18. Where Go The Boats - 0:37


Crab (more info)
Leo Sayer, reader
Ted Hughes,


19. Crab - 0:33


The End (more info)
Composed by: Alan Alexander Milne
Catherine McCormack, reader


20. The End - 0:38


To Any Reader (more info)
Robert Louis Stevenson,
John Sessions, reader


21. To Any Reader - 1:03


Under Milk Wood (more info)
Ioan Gruffud, reader
Dylan Thomas,


22. Under Milk Wood - 3:07


The Collier (more info)
Ioan Gruffud, reader
Vernon Watkins,


23. The Collier - 2:18


Sick (more info)
Catherine McCormack, reader
Shel Silverstein,


24. Sick - 2:04


Boring (more info)
John Whitworth,
John Cleese, reader


25. Boring - 1:32


The Barefoot Boy (excerpt) (more info)
J. Whittier,
Jenny Agutter, reader


26. The Barefoot Boy (excerpt) - 1:27


The Tempest, Act I Scene 2: 'Full Fathom Five' (Ariel's Song) (more info)
Glenda Jackson, reader


27. The Tempest, Act I Scene 2: 'Full Fathom Five' (Ariel's Song) - 0:38


Rosa Mystica (more info)
Michael Williams, reader
Oscar Wilde,


28. Rosa Mystica - 1:04


A Smuggler's Song (more info)
Michael Caine, reader


29. A Smuggler's Song - 2:33


Walking Away (more info)
Timothy West, narrator
Cecil Day Lewis,


30. Walking Away - 1:29


Tarantella (more info)
Hilaire Belloc,
Terence Stamp, reader


31. Tarantella - 1:23


If (more info)
Michael Caine, reader


32. If - 1:57


This Above All (more info)
Michael Maloney, reader


33. This Above All - 1:31


The Arrow (more info)
Art Malik, reader
W.B. Yeats,


34. The Arrow - 0:44


The Arrow and The Song (more info)
HRH The Duchess of Kent, reader
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,


35. The Arrow and The Song - 0:53


The First Day (more info)
Felicity Kendal, reader
Christina Rossetti,


36. The First Day - 1:11


The Song of Torrismond (more info)
Janet Suzman, reader
Thomas Lovell Beddoes,


37. The Song of Torrismond - 0:52


Sonnet 43 (more info)
Hannah Gordon, reader
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,


38. Sonnet 43 - 1:24


The Virginity (more info)
Terence Stamp, reader


39. The Virginity - 1:36


We Have Known Treasure (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
Charles Dance, reader


40. We Have Known Treasure - 1:11


Sonnet 138 (more info)
Robert Lindsay, reader


41. Sonnet 138 - 1:01


Echo (more info)
Glenda Jackson, reader
Christina Rossetti,


42. Echo - 1:13


Sonnet 18 (more info)
Glenda Jackson, reader


43. Sonnet 18 - 1:10


When I Was One-And-Twenty (more info)
Pete Postlethwaite, reader
A. E. Housman,


44. When I Was One-And-Twenty - 0:41


The Mermaid (more info)
W.B. Yeats,
Juliet Stevenson, reader


45. The Mermaid - 0:24


Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast (more info)
Terence Stamp, reader
Robert Herrick,


46. Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast - 0:52


A Red, Red Rose (more info)
Robert Burns,
John Sessions, reader
Forbes Masson, reader


47. My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose - 0:57


Sonnet 116 (more info)
Robert Lindsay, reader


48. Sonnet 116 - 1:00


New Year's Eve (more info)
David Herbert Richards Lawrence,
Benjamin Soames, reader
Michael Maloney, reader


49. New Year's Eve - 1:22


Green (more info)
Michael Maloney, reader
David Herbert Richards Lawrence,


50. Green - 0:34

Henry V: Prologue (more info)
Mark Rylance, actor


1. Henry V: Prologue - 3:22


Into Battle (more info)
Juliet Stevenson, reader
Julian Grenfell,


2. Into Battle - 0:25


An Irish Airman Foresees His Death (more info)
William Houston, reader
W.B. Yeats,


3. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death - 1:13


Once to Every Man and Nation (more info)
Judi Dench, reader
James Russell Lowell,


4. Once to Every Man and Nation - 0:33


Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (more info)
William Houston, reader
Seamus Heaney,


5. Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - 5:49


In Flanders Field (more info)
John McCrea,
Robert Powell, reader


6. In Flanders Field - 0:55


Perhaps (more info)
Vera Brittain,
Judi Dench, reader


7. Perhaps - 1:29


Anthem for Doomed Youth (more info)
Wilfred Owen,
Robert Powell, reader


8. Anthem for Doomed Youth - 1:02


Dulce et Decorum Est (more info)
Lord Owen, reader
Wilfred Owen,


9. Dulce et Decorum Est - 1:46


Pluck (more info)
Felicity Kendal, reader
Eva Dobell,


10. Pluck - 1:16


In Memory of W. B. Yeats (excerpt) (more info)
Art Malik, reader


11. In Memory of W. B. Yeats (excerpt) - 1:01


At a War Grave (more info)
Michael Maloney, reader
John Jarmain,


12. At a War Grave - 0:48


El Alamein (more info)
Michael Maloney, reader
John Jarmain,


13. El Alamein - 2:08


Handbag (more info)
Prunella Scales, reader
Ruth Fainlight,


14. Handbag - 0:43


Salvage Song (more info)
Prunella Scales, reader
Elsie Cawser,
Michael Maloney, reader


15. Salvage Song - 0:40


England (more info)
Michael Caine, reader


16. England - 0:18


Dover Beach (more info)
Michael Williams, reader
Matthew Arnold,


17. Dover Beach - 2:21


Written with a Pencil in a Sealed Wagon (more info)
Janet Suzman, reader
Dan Pagis,


18. Written with a Pencil in a Sealed Wagon - 0:48


No Man Is An Island (more info)
Ed Bishop, reader
John Donne,


19. No Man Is An Island - 0:42


The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1: 'The Quality of Mercy' (more info)
Ralph Fiennes, reader


20. The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1: 'The Quality of Mercy' - 1:05


What is Good (more info)
John Boyle O'Reilly,
Judi Dench, reader


21. What is Good - 0:56


Leaves of Grass (more info)
Art Malik, reader
Walt Whitman,


22. Leaves of Grass - 0:56


Addendum to the Ten Commandments (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
Michael Caine, reader


23. Addendum to the Ten Commandments - 0:16


A Student (more info)
Geoffrey Chaucer,
Emma Fielding, reader


24. A Student - 1:31


Abou Ben Adhem (more info)
Robert Powell, reader
James Henry Leigh Hunt,


25. Abou Ben Adhem - 1:09


The Song of Hiawatha (excerpt) (more info)
Clark Peters, reader
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,


26. The Song of Hiawatha (excerpt) - 3:29


My Heart Leaps Up (more info)
Robert Hardy, reader
William Wordsworth,


27. My Heart Leaps Up - 0:34


Auguries of Innocence (more info)
William Blake,
Timothy West, narrator


28. Auguries of Innocence - 0:21


The Tyger (more info)
William Blake,
Timothy West, narrator


29. The Tyger - 1:18


Of All The Souls That Stand Create (more info)
Emily Dickinson,
Gayle Hunnicutt, reader


30. Of All The Souls That Stand Create - 0:48


Kubla Khan (more info)
Pete Postlethwaite, reader
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,


31. Kubla Khan - 2:32


A Man's a Man for a' That' (more info)
Robert Burns,
John Sessions, reader
Forbes Masson, reader


32. A Man's a Man for A' That - 1:46


The Road Not Taken (more info)
John Cleese, reader
Robert Frost,


33. The Road Not Taken - 1:09


The Bleed'n' Sparrer (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous
Michael Caine, reader


34. The Bleed'n' Sparrer - 1:03


Politics (more info)
Michael Caine, reader
W.B. Yeats,


35. Politics - 0:47


Peekaboo, I Almost See You (more info)
David Suchet, vocals


36. Peekaboo, I Almost See You - 1:39


Samson Agonistes (more info)
David Suchet, vocals


37. Samson Agonistes - 0:21


Sea Fever (more info)
Terence Stamp, reader
John Edward Masefield,


38. Sea Fever - 1:11


The Exultation (more info)
Emily Dickinson,
Gayle Hunnicutt, reader


39. The Exultation - 0:32


We Have Been Here Before (more info)
Charles Dance, reader
Morris Bishop,


40. We Have Been Here Before - 1:14


The Brook (excerpt) (more info)
Janet Suzman, reader
Alfred Tennyson,


41. The Brook (excerpt) - 2:11


Upon Westminister Bridge (more info)
Robert Hardy, reader
William Wordsworth,


42. Upon Westminister Bridge - 1:03


A Song of a Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover (more info)
Janet Suzman, reader
John Wilmot,


43. A Song of a Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover - 1:41


John Anderson, My Jo (more info)
Stella Gonet, reader
Robert Burns,


44. John Anderson, My Jo - 2:00


In Praise of Cocoa, Cupid's Nightcap (more info)
Stanley J. Sharples,
Emma Fielding, reader


45. In Praise of Cocoa, Cupid's Nightcap - 0:47


The Way Through the Woods (more info)
Art Malik, reader


46. The Way Through the Woods - 1:07


Uphill (excerpt) (more info)
HRH The Duchess of Kent, reader
Christina Rossetti,


47. Uphill (excerpt) - 0:59


Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (more info)
Ioan Gruffud, reader
Dylan Thomas,


48. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - 1:33


Song (more info)
Jenny Agutter, reader
Christina Rossetti,


49. Song - 1:01


Code Poem for the French Resistance (more info)
Ralph Fiennes, reader
Leo Marks,


50. Code Poem for the French Resistance - 0:41


This World is not Conclusion (more info)
Gayle Hunnicutt, reader
Emily Dickinson,


51. This World is not Conclusion - 1:16


Requiem (more info)
Robert Louis Stevenson,
John Sessions, reader


52. Requiem - 0:39


Sleeping at Last (more info)
Judi Dench, reader
Christina Rossetti,


53. Sleeping at Last - 1:13


Cymbeline, Act IV Scene 2: 'Fear No More' (more info)
Ian McKellen, reader


54. Cymbeline, Act IV Scene 2: 'Fear No More' - 1:40


Evolution (more info)
Mark Rylance, actor
John Banister Tabb,


55. Evolution - 1:36

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