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SEVEN AGES - An Anthology of Poetry with Music


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Category: Poetry
Author(s):
Allingham, William • Anonymous • Arnold, Matthew • Auden, Wystan Hugh • Beddoes, Thomas Lovell • Belloc, Hilaire • Bishop, Morris • Blake, William • Bridges, Robert Seymour • Brittain, Vera • Browning, Elizabeth Barrett • Burns, Robert • Carroll, Lewis • Cawser, Elsie • Chaucer, Geoffrey • Chesterton, G. K. • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor • Day Lewis, Cecil • Dickinson, Emily • Dobell, Eva • Donne, John • Eliot, Thomas Stearns • Fainlight, Ruth • Frost, Robert • Grenfell, Julian • Gunn, Thomas • Heaney, Seamus • Herrick, Robert • Hood, Thomas • Housman, A. E. • Hughes, Ted • Jarmain, John • Keats, John • Kipling, Rudyard • Lawrence, David Herbert Richards • Lear, Edward • Leigh Hunt, James Henry • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth • Lowell, James Russell • Marks, Leo • Masefield, John Edward • McCrea, John • Milne, Alan Alexander • Nash, Ogden • O'Reilly, John Boyle • Owen, Wilfred • Pagis, Dan • Rossetti, Christina • Shakespeare, William • Sharples, Stanley J. • Shelley, Percy Bysshe • Silverstein, Shel • Stevenson, Anne • Stevenson, Robert Louis • Tabb, John Banister • Tagore, Rabindranath • Tennyson, Alfred • Thomas, Dylan • Watkins, Vernon • Whitman, Walt • Whittier, J. • Whitworth, John • Wilde, Oscar • Wilmot, John • Wordsworth, William • Yeats, W.B.
Catalogue No.: NA218912
ISBN No.: 9789626341896
Total Playing Time: 02:33:39

Track Details

Disc 1

1 VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293, "Autumn": II. Adagio molto 00:01:35
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
2 As You Like It, Act II Scene VII: 'Seven Ages' 00:02:08

3 DOWLAND: A Fancy (beginning) 00:00:16

4 INFANT 00:00:17
Gunn, Thomas - author(s)
5 Baby Song 00:00:57
Stevenson, Anne - author(s)
6 The Victory 00:01:05
Dickinson, Emily - author(s)
7 Surgeons 00:00:20
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
8 The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2: 'Fancy' 00:00:51
Nash, Ogden - author(s)
9 The Guppy 00:00:21
Lear, Edward - author(s)
10 The Quangle Wangle's Hat 00:02:30
Hood, Thomas - author(s)
11 I Remember, I Remember 00:01:22
Allingham, William - author(s)
12 The Fairies 00:01:55
Hood, Thomas - author(s)
13 A Parental Ode 00:02:39
Stevenson, Robert Louis - author(s)
14 My Shadow 00:01:26
Lear, Edward - author(s)
15 The Owl and The Pussy Cat 00:01:26
Milne, Alan Alexander - author(s)
16 Sneezles 00:01:28
Carroll, Lewis - author(s)
17 The Walrus and The Carpenter 00:04:12
Hughes, Ted - author(s)
18 Jellyfish 00:00:29
Chesterton, G. K. - author(s)
19 The Donkey 00:00:57
Anonymous - author(s)
20 The Common Cormorant 00:00:28
Stevenson, Robert Louis - author(s)
21 Where Go The Boats 00:00:37
Hughes, Ted - author(s)
22 Crab 00:00:33
Milne, Alan Alexander - author(s)
23 The End 00:00:38

24 MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Uphill Down Dale (excerpt) 00:00:34

25 SCHOOL 00:00:14
Stevenson, Robert Louis - author(s)
26 To Any Reader 00:01:03
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
27 Under Milk Wood 00:03:07
Watkins, Vernon - author(s)
28 The Collier 00:02:18
Silverstein, Shel - author(s)
29 Sick 00:02:04
Whitworth, John - author(s)
30 Boring 00:01:32
Whittier, J. - author(s)
31 The Barefoot Boy (excerpt) 00:01:27
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
32 The Tempest, Act I Scene 2: 'Full Fathom Five' (Ariel's Song) 00:00:38
Wilde, Oscar - author(s)
33 Rosa Mystica 00:01:04
Kipling, Rudyard - author(s)
34 A Smuggler's Song 00:02:33
Day Lewis, Cecil - author(s)
35 Walking Away 00:01:29
Belloc, Hilaire - author(s)
36 Tarantella 00:01:23
Eliot, Thomas Stearns - author(s)
37 Macavity 00:03:09
Kipling, Rudyard - author(s)
38 If 00:01:57
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
39 This Above All 00:01:31

40 DOWLAND: M. George Whitehead his Almand (excerpt) 00:00:31

41 LOVER 00:00:12
Yeats, W.B. - author(s)
42 The Arrow 00:00:44
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - author(s)
43 The Arrow and The Song 00:00:53
Tagore, Rabindranath - author(s)
44 They Who Are Near To Me 00:00:31
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
45 The First Day 00:01:11
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell - author(s)
46 The Song of Torrismond 00:00:52
Bridges, Robert Seymour - author(s)
47 My Delight and Thy Delight 00:01:07
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - author(s)
48 Sonnet 43 00:01:24
Kipling, Rudyard - author(s)
49 The Virginity 00:01:36
Shelley, Percy Bysshe - author(s)
50 The Longest Journey 00:00:51
Anonymous - author(s)
51 We Have Known Treasure 00:01:11
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
52 Sonnet 138 00:01:01
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
53 Echo 00:01:13
Tagore, Rabindranath - author(s)
54 Delusions I Did Cherish 00:00:42
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
55 Sonnet 18 00:01:10
Housman, A. E. - author(s)
56 When I Was One-And-Twenty 00:00:41
Yeats, W.B. - author(s)
57 The Mermaid 00:00:24
Herrick, Robert - author(s)
58 Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast 00:00:52
Burns, Robert - author(s)
59 My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose 00:00:57
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
60 Sonnet 116 00:01:00
Lawrence, David Herbert Richards - author(s)
61 New Year's Eve 00:01:22
Lawrence, David Herbert Richards - author(s)
62 Green 00:00:34
Keats, John - author(s)
63 A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever 00:01:04

Disc 2

1 STRAVINSKY: The Soldier's Tale (excerpt) 00:00:52

2 SOLDIER 00:00:18
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
3 Henry V: Prologue 00:03:22
Grenfell, Julian - author(s)
4 Into Battle 00:00:25
Yeats, W.B. - author(s)
5 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death 00:01:13
Lowell, James Russell - author(s)
6 Once to Every Man and Nation 00:00:33
Heaney, Seamus - author(s)
7 Whatever You Say, Say Nothing 00:05:49
McCrea, John - author(s)
8 In Flanders Field 00:00:55
Brittain, Vera - author(s)
9 Perhaps 00:01:29
Owen, Wilfred - author(s)
10 Anthem for Doomed Youth 00:01:02
Owen, Wilfred - author(s)
11 Dulce et Decorum Est 00:01:46
Dobell, Eva - author(s)
12 Pluck 00:01:16
Auden, Wystan Hugh - author(s)
13 In Memory of W. B. Yeats (excerpt) 00:01:01
Jarmain, John - author(s)
14 At a War Grave 00:00:48
Jarmain, John - author(s)
15 El Alamein 00:02:08
Fainlight, Ruth - author(s)
16 Handbag 00:00:43
Cawser, Elsie - author(s)
17 Salvage Song 00:00:40
Kipling, Rudyard - author(s)
18 England 00:00:18
Arnold, Matthew - author(s)
19 Dover Beach 00:02:21
Pagis, Dan - author(s)
20 Written with a Pencil in a Sealed Wagon 00:00:48
Donne, John - author(s)
21 No Man Is An Island 00:00:42

22 LUIS DE NARVAEZ: Fantasia (excerpt) 00:00:57

23 WISDOM 00:00:22
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
24 The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene 1: 'The Quality of Mercy' 00:01:05
O'Reilly, John Boyle - author(s)
25 What is Good 00:00:56
Whitman, Walt - author(s)
26 Leaves of Grass 00:00:56
Anonymous - author(s)
27 Addendum to the Ten Commandments 00:00:16
Chaucer, Geoffrey - author(s)
28 A Student 00:01:31
Leigh Hunt, James Henry - author(s)
29 Abou Ben Adhem 00:01:09
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - author(s)
30 The Song of Hiawatha (excerpt) 00:03:29
Wordsworth, William - author(s)
31 My Heart Leaps Up 00:00:34
Blake, William - author(s)
32 Auguries of Innocence 00:00:21
Blake, William - author(s)
33 The Tyger 00:01:18
Dickinson, Emily - author(s)
34 Of All The Souls That Stand Create 00:00:48
Shelley, Percy Bysshe - author(s)
35 Chorus of Spirits 00:01:40
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - author(s)
36 Kubla Khan 00:02:32
Burns, Robert - author(s)
37 A Man's a Man for A' That 00:01:46
Frost, Robert - author(s)
38 The Road Not Taken 00:01:09
Anonymous - author(s)
39 The Bleed'n' Sparrer 00:01:03

40 DOWLAND: The King of Denmark's Galiard (excerpt) 00:00:38

41 SIXTH AGE 00:00:29
Yeats, W.B. - author(s)
42 Politics 00:00:47
Nash, Ogden - author(s)
43 Peekaboo, I Almost See You 00:01:39
Nash, Ogden - author(s)
44 Samson Agonistes 00:00:21
Masefield, John Edward - author(s)
45 Sea Fever 00:01:11
Dickinson, Emily - author(s)
46 The Exultation 00:00:32
Bishop, Morris - author(s)
47 We Have Been Here Before 00:01:14
Tennyson, Alfred - author(s)
48 The Brook (excerpt) 00:02:11
Wordsworth, William - author(s)
49 Upon Westminister Bridge 00:01:03
Wilmot, John - author(s)
50 A Song of a Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover 00:01:41
Burns, Robert - author(s)
51 John Anderson, My Jo 00:02:00
Sharples, Stanley J. - author(s)
52 In Praise of Cocoa, Cupid's Nightcap 00:00:47
Kipling, Rudyard - author(s)
53 The Way Through the Woods 00:01:07
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
54 Uphill (excerpt) 00:00:59

55 LAST SCENE 00:00:24
Thomas, Dylan - author(s)
56 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 00:01:33
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
57 Song 00:01:01
Marks, Leo - author(s)
58 Code Poem for the French Resistance 00:00:41
Dickinson, Emily - author(s)
59 This World is not Conclusion 00:01:16
Stevenson, Robert Louis - author(s)
60 Requiem 00:00:39
Rossetti, Christina - author(s)
61 Sleeping at Last 00:01:13
Shakespeare, William - author(s)
62 Cymbeline, Act IV Scene 2: 'Fear No More' 00:01:40
Tabb, John Banister - author(s)
63 Evolution 00:01:36