The music you are hearing is Pavana Lachrymae and Galiarda (Musica Britannica 54 & 55), by William Byrd, the foremost composer of Elizabethan England.  The work is played here by John Sankey, celebrated international harpsichordist, used with the permission of Mr. Sankey.

Published weekly by 0600 GMT Thursdays in seven-week cycles, starting May 1, 2002 (seven or more new recordings each week).

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Archive of First, Second and Third Seven-Week Cycles

• Week ending October   2, 2002 last week of Cycle Three

• Week ending September 25. 2002

• Week ending September 18, 2002

• Week ending September 11, 2002

• Week ending September   4, 2002

• Week ending August 28, 2002

• Week ending August 22, 2002 first week of Cycle Three

• Week ending August 15, 2002

• Week ending August   7, 2002

• Week ending July 31, 2002

• Week ending July 24, 2002

• Week ending July 16, 2002

• Week ending July   8, 2002

• Week ending June 30, 2002 First Week of Cycle Two

• Week ending June 22, 2002 

• Week ending June 14, 2002

• Week ending June   7, 2002

• Week ending May 31, 2002

• Week ending May 23. 2002

• Week ending May 15, 2002

• Week ending May   7, 2002 First Week of Cycle One

Third Seven-Week Cycle

Program for Week Seven of Cycle Three: September 26, 2002 to October 2, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 26.IX.2002 at 1200 GMT

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• Ben Jonson: The Hour Glass [0:30] [1572-1637]

• Amy Lowell:Patterns [4:16] [1874-1925]

• Christopher Marlowe: Helen [1:06] [1564-1593]

• [anon.][English renaissance]:I Saw My Lady Weep [0:59] [16th Century]

•             I Sighed and Owned My Love [0:50]

• William Stevenson: Jolly Good Ale and Old [2:11] [1530?-1575]

• Wallace Stevens: Peter Quince at the Clavier [2:30] [1879-1955]

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Program for Week Six of Cycle Three: September 19, 2002 to September 25, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 19.IX.2002 at 1040 GMT

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• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Be Near Me [0:53]

• Emily Bronte: Often Rebuked [1:10]

• Thomas Hardy: The Going [1:46]

• Nicholas Breton: An Assurance [0:54]

• William Cory: Heraclitus [0:42]

• D. H. Lawrence: Quite Forsaken [0:43]

• Wilfred Owen: Wild with All Regrets [2:21]

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnet - How do I love thee? - Let me count the ways [0:52]

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Program for Week Five of Cycle Three: September 12, 2002 to September 18, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 13.IX.2002 at 1142 GMT

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• Henry Vaughan: They Are All Gone into the World of Light [0:59]

• Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard [6:56]

• William Oldys: The Fly [0:31]

• Isaac Watts: Horace Paraphrased [0:44]

• James Thomson [1700-1748]: Verses Occasioned by the Death of Dr. Aikman [0:38]

• [anon.][English renaissance]: Hierusalem [1:49

• Robert Browning: Memorabilia [0:43]

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Program for Week Four of Cycle Three: September 5, 2002 to September 11, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 5.IX.2002 at 0330 GMT

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• William Drummond of Hawthornden: For the Baptist [0:59]

• Thomas Dekker: Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes [0:38]

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: On Refusal of Aid Between Nations [0:55]

• Sir Charles Sedley: Not, Celia, That I Juster Am [0:43]

• James Stephens: In Waste Places [1:07]

• Robert Louis Stevenson: Requiem [0:28]

• Robert Browning: Pippa's Song [0:19]

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Program for Week Three of Cycle Three: August 29, 2002 to September 4, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 29.VIII.02 at 0530 GMT

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• Christina Rossetti: A Birthday [0:46]

•                               Nursery Rhyme [0:20]      

•                               A Life's Parallels [0:39]

•                               Sonnet 11 from A Sonnet of Sonnets [0:50]

•                               Sonnet 14 (final) from A Sonnet of Sonnets [0:52]

•                               When I Am Dead My Dearest [0:40]

•                               After Death [0:50]

•                               Sleeping at Last [0:44]

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Program for Week Two of Cycle Three: August 22, 2002 to August 28, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 22.VIII.02 at 0530 GMT

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• John Fletcher: Melancholy [0:52]

• Robert Frost: Mending Wall [2:17]

• Leigh Hunt: Jenny Kissed Me [0:23]

• John Lyly: Cupid and Compaspe [0:43]

• George Meredith: Kinship with the Stars [2:24]

• Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth [0:54]

• Ezra Pound: Envoi [1:04]

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Program for Week One of Cycle Three: August 16, 2002 to August 22, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 9.VIII.02 at 1530 GMT

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• W. H. Auden: Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love [1:37]

• Emily Dickinson: I Never Saw a Moor [0:20]

•                          The Soul Selects Her Own Society [0:30]

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Brahma [0:50]

• Stephen Crane: A Ball of Gold [0:29]

• John Donne (not a poem): Meditation XVII (. . .for whom the bell tolls. . .) [4:14]

• T. S. Eliot:  Journey of the Magi [2:16]

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Second Seven-Week Cycle

Program for Week Seven of Cycle Two: August 8, 2002 to August 15, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 9.VIII.02 at 1530 GMT

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• Carl Sandburg: At a Window [0:45]

• Robert Herrick: To Dianeme [0:32]

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal [0:51]

• William Butler Yeats: The Song of Wandering Aemus [1:03]

•                                  Where My Books Go [0:26]

• Theodore Roethke: My Papa's Waltz [0:37]

• A. E. Housman: When I Was One and Twenty [0:37]

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Program for Week Six of Cycle Two: August 1, 2002 to August 7, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web 6.VIII.02 at 0507 GMT

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• Robert Frost: Fire and Ice [0:25]

•                      Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening [0:43]

• A. E. Housman: With Rue My Heart Is Laden [0:23)

• Wm. Shakespeare: A Sea Dirge (Full fathom five thy father lies. . .) [0:25]

• Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush [1:17]

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Flower in the Crannied Wall [0:25]

• Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill [2:44]

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Program for Week Five of Cycle Two: July 25, 2002 to July 31, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web Jul 28 2, 2002 at 2005 GMT

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• Conrad Aiken: Music I Heard [0:42]

• R. P. Blackmur: Mirage [0:44]

• John Donne: Go and Catch a Falling Star [1:09)

• John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn [2:46]

• Edna St. Vincent Millay: Recuerdo [1:09]

• Christina Rosetti: When I Am Dead [0:40]

• Wm. Butler Yeats: Lapis Lazuli [2:35]

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Program for Week Four of Cycle Two: July 17, 2002 to July 24, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web Jul 19 2, 2002 at 2244 GMT

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• Thomas Carew: The True Beauty [0:33]

• Ben Jonson: To Celia [0:38]

• Wm. Shakespeare: Fidele [0:53)

•                                Fidele (antiphonal / choric version) [0:53]

•                                Our Revels Now Are Ended [0:40]

•                                Sonnet - 'Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth. . .' [0:50]

• Edmund Waller: Go, Lovely Rose [0:46]

• Sir Thomas Wyatt: The Lover's Appeal [0:50]

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Program for Week Three of Cycle Two: July 9, 2002 to July 16, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web July 2, 2002 at 2244 GMT

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• Wm. Blake: Auguries of Innocence [1:01]

•                    From Jerusalem [0:45]

•                    Night [1:41]

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Peace [0:52]

•                                        That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire. . . [2:02]

•                                        The Caged Skylark [1:05]

• Wm. Shakespeare: Sonnet No. 58 - That god forbid that made me first your slave [0:46]

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Program for Week Two of Cycle Two: July 1, 2002 to July 8, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web July 1, 2002 at 0530 GMT

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• Wm. Blake: The Echoing Green [0:55]

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: At the Wedding March [0:35]

•                                        Carrion Comfort [1:16]

•                                        The Windhover [1:03]

• John Keats: On Leaving Some Friends [0:49]

•                   To My Brothers [0:47]

• Wm. Shakespeare: Sonnet No. 57 - Being your slave, what shall I do? [0:46]

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Program for Week One of Cycle Two: June 23, 2002 to June 30, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web June 24, 2002 at 1457 GMT

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• Robert Herrick: Eternitie [0:27]

• George Herbert: The Pulley [0:53]

• Wm. Blake: Introduction to Songs of Innocence [0:52]

•                    A Poison Tree [0:42]

•                    Jerusalem [0:44]

•                    Infant Sorrow [0:27]

•                    Nurse's Song [0:44]

•                    The Garden of Love [0:32]

•                    The Human Abstract [0:59]

•                    The Lamb [0:54]

•                    The Sick Rose [0:17]

•                    The Tiger [0:59]

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First Seven-Week Cycle

Program for Week Seven of Cycle One: June 15, 2002 to June 22, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web June 5, 2002 at 1930 GMT

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• Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death [0:47]
• Edna St. Vincent Millay: Elegy Before Death [0:56]
•                                        Love Is Not All [0:52]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Love's Philosophy [0:37]
• Dylan Thomas: A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London [1:05]
•                         Should Lanterns Shine [1:00]
• Wm. Wordsworth: The Lost Love [0:30]

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Program for Week Six of Cycle One: June 7, 2002 to June 14, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web June 5, 2002 at 1930 GMT

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• Richard Lovelace: To Althea from Prison [1:16]
•                               To Lucasta on Going Beyond the Seas [0:49]
• Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress [1:58]
• Alexander Pope: The Quiet Life [0:54]
• John Webster: All the Flowers of the Spring [0:43]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias of Egypt [0:56]
• Wm. Wordsworth: To the Cuckoo [1:17]

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Program for Week Five of Cycle One: June 1, 2002 to June 7, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web May 28, 2002 at 0151 GMT

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• Ben Jonson: The Noble Nature [0:29]
• John Milton: On His Blindness (sonnet) [0:51]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark [3:45]
• Henry Vaughan: The Retreat [1:18]
• John Webster: A Land Dirge [0:31]
• Theodore Roethke: Elegy for Jane [1:20]
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Spring and Fall, To a Young Child [0:45]
•                                        Felix Randal [1:12]
• Wm. Butler Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium [1:33]

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Program for Week Four of Cycle One: May 24, 2002 to May 31, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web May 28, 2002 at 0151 GMT

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• Emily Dickinson: Parting [0:22]
• Ezra Pound: An Immortality [0:23]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Music When Soft Voices Die [0:26]
• Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No Dominion [1:24]
•                         Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night [1:12]
•                         In My Craft or Sullen Art [0:44]
• Walt Whitman: A Noiseless Patient Spider [0:46]
• Wm. Butler Yeats: Politics [0:27]
•                              When You are Old [0:44]
• Edna St. Vincent Millay: Never May The Fruit Be Plucked [0:40]

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Program for Week Three of Cycle One: May 16, 2002 to May 23, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web May 28, 2002 at 0151 GMT

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• W. H. Auden: In Memory of W. B. Yeats [3:27]
•                       Musee des Beaux Arts [1:14]
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan [2:32]
• A. E. Housman: Loveliest of Trees [0:37]
• Wm. Blake: Ah! Sunflower! [0:29]
• Wm. Shakespeare: Sonnet No. 2 - When forty winters. . . [0:50]
• Theodore Roethke: I Knew A Woman Lovely in Her Bones [1:36]
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord [0:59]
• Charles Kingsley: Young and Old [0:35]

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Program for Week Two of Cycle One: May 8, 2002 to May 15, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web May 15, 2002 at 0400 GMT

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• John Donne: Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God [0:53]
• John Dryden: Song for Saint Cecilia's Day [2:33]
• John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer [0:55]
• Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love [1:15]
• Wm. Shakespeare: Sonnet - Let me not to the marriage of true minds . . . [0:46]
•                                Sonnet - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? [0:48]
•                                Sonnet - Since brass nor stone. . . [0:51
•                                Sonnet - When in the chronicle of wasted time. . . [0:45]
•                                Sonnet - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . . [0:48]
• A. E. Housman: To an Athlete Dying Young [1:16]

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Program for Week One of Cycle One: May 1, 2002 to May 7, 2002

Published to the World Wide Web May 1, 2002 at 0830 GMT

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• Alfred Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar [0:44]

• Wm. Ernest Henley: Invictus [0:41]

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty [0:44]

•                                        God's Grandeur [0:51]

•                                        I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark [1:03]

• John Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci [1:57]

• Wm. Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innesfree [0:48]

• Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach [1:44]

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Other Poetry Readings by Walter Rufus Eagles:

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