The Antidote-Classic Poetry for Modern Life

 

A boy with wings, a magic veil, a purifying cathedral smell: a single lick of smoke is many things.

A Reading of ‘Smoke’ by Thoreau

Nov 10, 2009, 1:00 am

A boy with wings, a magic veil, a purifying cathedral smell: a single lick of smoke is many things.

An Extract from The Divine Comedy by Dante

Oct 13, 2009, 12:00 am

When a crisis strikes, the path of our life turns crooked.

A Reading of 'To Sleep' by William Wordsworth

Sep 21, 2009, 3:00 am

It’s three o’clock and you can’t sleep.

A reading of “Each New Hour’s passage” by Alfred Douglas

Sep 20, 2009, 1:00 am

Time passes and threatens to overturn all we have struggled to achieve.

An Extract from 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare

Aug 2, 2009, 12:00 am

What is the nature of despair?

A Reading of “Civilization Spurns the Leopard” by Emily Dickinson

Jun 28, 2009, 11:00 pm

The first line of Dickinson’s poem leaps off the page like a wild cat about to strike.

A Reading From 'Dr Faustus' by Christopher Marlowe

Jun 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Romantic love inspires our finest and perhaps our most ridiculous emotions.

A Reading of 'Upon Julia’s Voice' by Robert Herrick

Jun 1, 2009, 8:00 am

Do not underestimate the power of the human voice. It can hurt, it can heal, it can delight and it can destroy.

A Reading of 'The Arrow and the Song' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May 18, 2009, 5:00 pm

We can never predict the power of our actions. The word said, the deed done, disappear into the past, but often, years later, we can be astounded to learn of their impact.

A Reading of 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth

May 4, 2009, 5:00 am

“I wandered lonely as a cloud.” After reading such a line, comment seems superfluous. Time appears to stop.

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