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Acting Poetry

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

Justin Spencer, an actor born in the Pacific Northwest and trained at the world-renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, performs his favorite poems and speeches through audio.

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Episodes

Reluctance by Robert Frost

July 24, 2021 23:00 - 1 minute - 883 KB

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53085/reluctance

Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins

July 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 minute - 1.23 MB

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44392/carrion-comfort

Preludes by T.S. Eliot

July 21, 2021 23:00 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MB

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44214/preludes-56d22338dc954

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth

July 20, 2021 19:00 - 11 minutes - 8 MB

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45536/ode-intimations-of-immortality-from-recollections-of-early-childhood

The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert W. Service

July 19, 2021 16:00 - 6 minutes - 4.32 MB

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou. When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare, There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear. He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength ...

The Flower by George Herbert

July 18, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MB

How fresh, oh Lord, how sweet and clean Are thy returns! even as the flowers in spring;          To which, besides their own demean, The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.                       Grief melts away                       Like snow in May,          As if there were no such cold thing.          Who would have thought my shriveled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone          Quite underground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they ha...

The Hollow Crown from Richard II by William Shakespeare

July 17, 2021 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MB

Richard II has just returned to his beloved England and learned that all his power is gone. He is, for all intents, no longer king. No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills: And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the ground? Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's, And nothing can we call o...

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats

July 16, 2021 18:00 - 37 seconds - 466 KB

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.