Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition. Poems can evoke within us an individual response that takes us by surprise; that opens our ears and eyes to very personal feelings. Forget the idea of classic poetry being somehow dull and boring and best kept to children’s textbooks. It still has life, vibrancy and relevance to our lives today. Where to start? How to do that? Poetry can be difficult. We’ve put together some very eclectic Poetry Hours, with a broad range of poets and themes, to entice you and seduce you with all manner of temptations. In this hour we introduce poets of the quality and breadth of Ben Jonson and Jalalludin Rumi as well as themes on The Female Poet, Hell, Victorian Poetry and more. All of them are from Portable Poetry, a dedicated poetry publisher. We believe that poetry should be a part of our everyday lives, uplifting the soul & reaching the parts that other arts can’t. Our range of audiobooks and ebooks cover volumes on some of our greatest poets to anthologies of seasons, months, places and a wide range of themes. Portable Poetry can found at iTunes, Audible, the digital music section on Amazon and most other digital stores. This audio book is also duplicated in print as an ebook. Same title. Same words. Perhaps a different experience. But with Amazon’s whispersync you can pick up and put down on any device – start on audio, continue in print and any which way after that. Portable poetry – Let us join you for the journey. The Poetry Hour – Volume 19 Robert Herrick. An Introduction An Hymn to the Muses by Robert Herrick His Farewell to Sack by Robert Herrick His Return To London by Robert Herrick To Electra by Robert Herrick To Find God by Robert Herrick The Lake Poets. An Introduction Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Inchcape Rock by Robert Southey I Travell’d Amongst Unknown Men by William Wordsworth It Was An April Morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth December Come, Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte The Death of the Old Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson December 27th 1879 by George MacDonald Herman Melville. An Introduction John Marr & Other Sailors by Herman Melville Father Mapples Hymn (from Moby Dick) by Herman Melville Gettysburg by Herman Melville The Berg, A Dream by Herman Melville Dupont’s Round Fight, November 1851 by Herman Melville Aurora Borealis by Herman Melville Shelley’s Vision by Herman Melville The March into Virginia by Herman Melville Westminster Memorials – An Introduction First Love by John Clare To an Infant by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Village by Oliver Goldsmith His Meditation Upon Death by Robert Herrick Virtue by George Herbert When I Have Fears by John Keats William Shakespeare – A Tribute in Verse On Shakespeare by John Milton Shakespeare by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Spirit of Shakespeare by George Meredith Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold