Date of reading
or
performance |
Title |
Author |
Reader/Performer |
| August 22nd, 2023 |
To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train |
Frances Cornford |
JD |
| (Mid-1990s) |
The Whitsun Weddings |
Philip Larkin |
Richard Griffiths |
| April 25, 2023 |
Elegy in Three Parts |
Yuan Zhen |
JD |
| April 20, 2023 |
Two Poems about Wang Zhaojun |
Bai Juyi |
JD |
| July 26, 2022 |
Das Glück ist eine leichte Dirne |
Heinrich Heine |
JD |
| January 4, 2022 |
Working at Sunset |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
JD |
| December 30, 2021 |
Song of a Bitch |
Sergei Yesenin |
JD |
| 1998(?) |
To His Coy Mistress |
Andrew Marvell |
Richard Griffiths |
| July 22, 2020 |
Leaving Cambridge Again |
Xu Zhimo |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| June 11, 2020 |
The War-Song of Dinas Vawr |
Thomas Love Peacock |
JD |
| September 6, 2019 |
On Returning Home |
He Zhizhang |
JD |
| August 20, 2019 |
Looking At The Moon And Thinking Of One Far Away |
Zhang Jiuling |
JD |
| April 5, 2019 |
Pure Brightness Festival |
Du Mu |
JD |
| March 23, 2019 |
The Glories of Our Blood and State |
James Shirley |
JD |
| January 7, 2019 |
Chang E |
Li Shangyin |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| December 13, 2016 |
I Counsel You Beware |
A.E. Housman |
JD |
| November 30, 2016 |
Mr Shi eats lions |
(Anonymous) |
JD |
| November 19, 2016 |
Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam |
Ernest Dowson |
JD |
| November 26, 2015 |
A boat, beneath a sunny sky |
Lewis Carroll |
JD |
| 1997 |
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat |
Edward Lear |
Sir John Gielgud |
| November 19, 2014 |
The Secret People |
G.K. Chesterton |
JD |
| April 2, 2014 |
The Street Song from Lady Magnolia |
(Traditional) |
Yang Shurui |
| December 20, 2013 |
Dog-Walking in the Snow |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| December 20, 2013 |
Gazing at the Sea |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| December 16, 2013 |
The Season Turns |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| November 8, 2013 |
Savoring Autumn |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| November 8, 2013 |
Evening Walk With My Dog |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
Lynette Rose Derbyshire |
| January 23, 2013 |
A Father's Advice |
Mark Hanbury Beaufoy |
JD |
| December 18, 2012 |
Grief |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
JD |
| November 30, 2012 |
Remembrance |
Alexander Pushkin |
JD |
| August 26, 2012 |
Eugene Onegin (extract) |
Alexander Pushkin |
(Anonymous) |
| August 24, 2012 |
Songs from Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream (2) |
孫儀 |
Frances Yip |
| August 24, 2012 |
Songs from Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream (1) |
麗風 |
Frances Yip |
| May 7, 2012 |
Lovely |
Kingsley Amis |
JD |
| May 7, 2012 |
Shitty |
Kingsley Amis |
JD |
| May 2, 2012 |
Eenling is die mens gebore |
I.D du Plessis |
Elizabeth Nieman |
| January 6, 2012 |
To the Tune of Picking Mulberries |
Xin Qiji |
(Unknown) |
| November 11, 2011 |
The Waves (extract) |
Boris Pasternak |
(Anonymous) |
| July 30, 2011 |
Drinking Alone Under the Moon |
Li Bai |
JD |
| April 28, 2011 |
The Battle of Maldon |
(Anonymous) |
Prof. Michael D. C. Drout |
| April 7, 2011 |
He Fell among Thieves |
Sir Henry Newbolt |
JD |
| April 5, 2011 |
The Green Eye of the Yellow God |
J. Milton Hayes |
JD |
| April 4, 2011 |
Abou ben Adhem |
Leigh Hunt |
JD |
| 1932 |
Ain't It Grand To Be Bloomin' Well Dead |
(English traditional) |
Leslie Sarony |
| March 6, 2011 |
The elegy "Multas per Gentes" |
Gaius Valerius Catullus |
(Unknown) |
| November 7, 2010 |
Hortatory verse (3): If— |
Rudyard Kipling |
JD |
| November 7, 2010 |
Hortatory verse (2): Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth |
Arthur Hugh Clough |
JD |
| November 7, 2010 |
Hortatory verse (1): A Psalm of Life |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Jim Cooke and Patricia Busacker |
| 1997 |
To a Mouse |
Robert Burns |
Donald Douglas |
| November 7, 2010 |
The Highwayman |
Alfred Noyes |
JD |
| November 6, 2010 |
The Lion and Albert |
Marriott Edgar |
JD |
| June 10, 2010 |
Carminum III.xxvi "Vixi Puellis" |
Quintus Horatius Flaccus |
JD |
| June 10, 2010 |
Diffugere nives |
A.E. Housman |
JD |
| June 10, 2010 |
Carminum IV.vii "Diffugere nives" |
Quintus Horatius Flaccus |
JD |
| June 9, 2010 |
Carminum II.xiv "Eheu fugaces" |
Quintus Horatius Flaccus |
JD |
| May 9, 2010 |
The Bomb on 42nd Street |
Tom Morgan |
Tom Morgan |
| May 9, 2010 |
The Fun in My Head |
Tom Morgan |
Tom Morgan |
| May 9, 2010 |
A Marriage |
Tom Morgan |
Tom Morgan |
| May 8, 2010 |
Vitaï Lampada |
Sir Henry Newbolt |
JD |
| 1960 |
Non, je ne regrette rien |
Charles Dumont |
Edith Piaf |
| March 31, 2010 |
Madrigal: My Thoughts Hold Mortal Strife |
William Drummond of Hawthornden |
JD |
| March 13, 2010 |
The Land |
Rudyard Kipling |
JD |
| March 13, 2010 |
We'll Go No More A-Roving |
Lord Byron |
JD |
| January 22, 2010 |
When a Beau Goes In |
Gavin Ewart |
JD |
| January 15, 2010 |
Stars and Planets |
Norman MacCaig |
JD |
| November 3, 2009 |
Here Dead We Lie |
A.E. Housman |
JD |
| June 26, 2009 |
Die Beiden |
Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
JD |
| June 23, 2009 |
The Jolly Company |
Rupert Brooke |
JD |
| June 23, 2009 |
Slim Cunning Hands |
Walter de la Mare |
JD |
| May 31, 2009 |
A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning |
John Donne |
JD |
| May 16, 2009 |
The Lover in Winter
Plaineth for the Spring |
(Anonymous) |
JD |
| May 3, 2009 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes |
Samuel Johnson |
JD |
| Apr. 29, 2009 |
The Tenth Satire of Juvenal |
translated by John Dryden |
JD |
| Apr. 24, 2009 |
Satura X |
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis |
JD |
| Feb. 28, 2009 |
I Lost My Proud Poplar |
Mao Tse-tung |
JD |
| Feb. 23, 2009 |
The Twenty-Third Psalm |
King David |
JD |
| Feb. 21, 2009 |
Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard |
Thomas Gray |
JD |
| Feb. 12, 2009 |
At Night |
Frances Cornford |
JD |
| Dec. 13, 2008 |
To the Tune of Like a Dream |
Li Qingzhao |
Jie Fertig |
| Dec. 13, 2008 |
Every Note, Adagio |
Li Qingzhao |
Jie Fertig |
| Dec. 9, 2008 |
Dover Beach |
Matthew Arnold |
JD |
| Nov. 18, 2008 |
The Garden of the Golden Valley |
Du Mu |
JD |
| 1973 |
The Cunt Sketch |
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore |
| Nov. 17, 2008 |
Meditation on
Some Fixed-Point Theorems |
JD |
| Nov. 14, 2008 |
Opus 118 |
Anne Knish |
JD |
| 1998 |
The Odyssey |
Homer |
Peter Jones |
| Nov. 12, 2008 |
On Growing Old |
John Masefield |
JD |
| Nov. 11, 2008 |
O Valiant Hearts |
John Stanhope Arkwright |
The Chapel Choir
of the
Royal Hospital, Chelsea |
| Nov. 10, 2008 |
Julaften |
Sigbjørn Obstfelder |
Truls Ovrum |
| Nov. 8, 2008 |
Life Gets Teejus, Don't It? |
Carson Robison |
Carson Robison |
| Nov. 7, 2008 |
Sometimes in
the Middle Autumn Days |
George Orwell |
JD |
| Nov. 3, 2008 |
The Isles of Greece |
Lord Byron |
JD |
| Dec. 18, 2007 |
Night Mooring at Maple Bridge |
Zhang Ji |
JD |
| 2007(?) |
Hamlet |
Boris Pasternak |
(Not known) |
| 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 |
| Sept. 28, 2006 |
I Am |
John Clare |
JD |
| Sept. 11, 2006 |
New Approach Needed |
Kingsley Amis |
JD |
| 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 |
The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
JD |
| July 12, 2006 |
The Three Fishers |
Charles Kingsley |
JD |
| 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 1, 2006 |
Tao Te Ching, Stanza 21 |
Lao Tzu |
JD |
| May 1, 2006 |
Paradise Regained |
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 |
The Gods of the
Copybook Headings |
Rudyard Kipling |
JD |
| Feb. 3, 2006 |
Go, Lovely Rose |
Edmund Waller |
JD |
| 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 |
| 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 (1) |
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 |
| 2001(?) |
A Song of Valediction:
Dreaming I Roamed
on TianMu
Mountain |
Li Bai |
Sun Daolin |
| 1970(?) |
La Route est Dure |
Richard
Holmes (?) |
Georgia
Brown |
| 1930(?) |
Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff |
A.E. Housman |
James Mason |
| 1930(?) |
On the Road to Mandalay |
Rudyard Kipling |
Peter Dawson |
| 1930(?) |
Parted |
Frederick Weatherly(?) |
Peter Dawson |
| 1930(?) |
Eternal Father, Strong to Save |
William Whiting |
Peter Dawson |
| 1930(?) |
Route Marchin' |
Rudyard Kipling |
Peter Dawson |
| 1930(?) |
When the Sergeant-Major's
On Parade |
Ernest Longstaffe |
Peter Dawson |
| 1930(?) |
Auld Lang Syne |
Robert Burns |
Peter Dawson |
