Arimaspian Rose

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  • The world is too much with us

    The world is too much with us

    The poem “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth read by Graham Donald

    You can hear the reading here

    The world is too much with us
    The world is too much with us

    The world is too much with us; late and soon,

    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

    Little we see in Nature that is ours;

    We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

    This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

    The winds that will be howling at all hours,

    And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

    For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

    It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

    A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

    So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

    Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

    Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

    Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

  • Remember Me

    The poem “Remember Me” by Christina Rossetti read by Graham Donald

    You can hear the recording here

    Remember Me by Christina Rossetti
    Remember Me by Christina Rossetti

    Remember me when I am gone away, 

             Gone far away into the silent land; 

             When you can no more hold me by the hand, 

    Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. 

    Remember me when no more day by day 

             You tell me of our future that you plann’d: 

             Only remember me; you understand 

    It will be late to counsel then or pray. 

    Yet if you should forget me for a while 

             And afterwards remember, do not grieve: 

             For if the darkness and corruption leave 

             A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, 

    Better by far you should forget and smile 

             Than that you should remember and be sad.

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