Listen to Poetry

Click on a poem below to listen and read the verse. With each poem, you have two options:

1. Listen Click "Listen" to hear the poem (almost) immediately. The recording will stream to your computer in MP3 format.
2. Download Click "Download" to save the poem in MP3 format to your hard disk. You can then replay it as you wish.

I expect to pass through this world but once

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride

Move him into the sun

Monday's child is fair of face

I met a traveller from an antique land

When I was a child

What a piece of work is a man!

I wish I loved the Human Race

At Tara today in this fateful hour

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?