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Classic Love Poems
For anyone who's in love - or hopes to be - what greater celebration could there be than to hear the world's greatest love poetry read lovingly by Richard Armitage? With 15 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day.
Included in this collection
• "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
• "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "To Be One with Each Other" by George Eliot
• "Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
• "Bright Star" by John Keats
• "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
• "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
• "The Dream" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
• "I carry your heart" by e. e. cummings
• "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
• "Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
22 mins / Public Domain (P)2015 Audible Inc.
Included in this collection
• "How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
• "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
• "To Be One with Each Other" by George Eliot
• "Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
• "Bright Star" by John Keats
• "Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
• "Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
• "The Dream" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
• "I carry your heart" by e. e. cummings
• "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
• "Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
22 mins / Public Domain (P)2015 Audible Inc.
1 pages, Audible Audio
First published February 9, 2015
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Richard Armitage
92 books755 followersBritish actor and audio-book narrator.
Richard Armitage was born in 1971, the second son of Margaret, a secretary, and John, an engineer. He grew up in a village outside the city. Some of his favourite childhood stories included The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
At the age of fourteen he transferred from a local state middle school, Brockington College, to Pattison’s Dancing Academy in Coventry (now Pattison College), an independent boarding school specialising in Performing Arts. The school arranged regular theatre visits, and it was here, watching a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, that he discovered an interest in acting: “I remember having that moment of finally understanding what was going on. They were having such a good time and the audience was having such a good time and I just thought that was where I wanted to be. I remember thinking they were doing something they loved and they were getting paid for it”. [2]
Pattison’s introduced him to the demands and obligations of an acting career: "It... instilled me with a discipline that has stood me in good stead - never to be late, to know your lines and to be professional." It gave its pupils opportunities to appear in local amateur and professional productions, and by the time Richard left school at 17, he had already appeared in Showboat, Half a Sixpence, as Bacchus in Orpheus and the Underworld and in The Hobbit at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. [3]
After leaving school, Richard joined The Second Generation, a physical theatre group, working for eight weeks in a show called Allow London at the Nachtcircus in Budapest. Here he “threw hoola hoops to a skateboarding Russian and held ladders for [a] juggling act…did guide roping for the trapeze, and…a weird kind of UV glow-in-the-dark mime illusion thing”. [4] Though he later described “sleeping next to the elephants” as “a low point in show business”, it was sufficient to gain him his Equity card, a pre-requisite at the time for entry to the profession. [1]
Returning to the UK, he embarked on a career in musical theatre, working as assistant choreographer to Kenn Oldfield and appearing in the West End and on tour in a series of musicals including 42nd Street, My One and Only, Nine, Mr Wonderful, Annie Get your Gun and Cats.
By 1995, inspired in part by seeing Adrian Noble’s classic 1994 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Stratford, he was laying the foundations of an acting career, appearing at the Actors’ Centre’s Tristram Bates Theatre as Macliesh in Willis Hall’s The Long and the Short and the Tall, and at the Old School Manchester as Henry in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, Flan in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation and Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. He was also studying for a Society of British Fight Directors qualification.
This was the year that Richard enrolled on a three-year Acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Here he appeared in student productions including Pericles as Antiochus the Great, David Copperfield as Uriah Heep, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart as Felix, and as Buscher in Manfred Karge’s metaphorical drama of unemployment The Conquest of the South Pole.
In his final year at LAMDA, an advert on the college notice board for film extras led to his first experience of acting in a feature film: a one-line role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It was a humble, though interesting, entry into film: “I felt very nervous saying my line - I had practised it for three weeks… I actually ended up as a computer graphic in the film, I think”. [4] Despite being unidentifiable on screen, he found himself besieged by Star Wars fans when touring Japan with the RSC two years later.
Graduating in the summer of 1998, he immediately joined the cast of Hamlet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, having already appeared at the Edinburgh Festival
Richard Armitage was born in 1971, the second son of Margaret, a secretary, and John, an engineer. He grew up in a village outside the city. Some of his favourite childhood stories included The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
At the age of fourteen he transferred from a local state middle school, Brockington College, to Pattison’s Dancing Academy in Coventry (now Pattison College), an independent boarding school specialising in Performing Arts. The school arranged regular theatre visits, and it was here, watching a performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, that he discovered an interest in acting: “I remember having that moment of finally understanding what was going on. They were having such a good time and the audience was having such a good time and I just thought that was where I wanted to be. I remember thinking they were doing something they loved and they were getting paid for it”. [2]
Pattison’s introduced him to the demands and obligations of an acting career: "It... instilled me with a discipline that has stood me in good stead - never to be late, to know your lines and to be professional." It gave its pupils opportunities to appear in local amateur and professional productions, and by the time Richard left school at 17, he had already appeared in Showboat, Half a Sixpence, as Bacchus in Orpheus and the Underworld and in The Hobbit at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham. [3]
After leaving school, Richard joined The Second Generation, a physical theatre group, working for eight weeks in a show called Allow London at the Nachtcircus in Budapest. Here he “threw hoola hoops to a skateboarding Russian and held ladders for [a] juggling act…did guide roping for the trapeze, and…a weird kind of UV glow-in-the-dark mime illusion thing”. [4] Though he later described “sleeping next to the elephants” as “a low point in show business”, it was sufficient to gain him his Equity card, a pre-requisite at the time for entry to the profession. [1]
Returning to the UK, he embarked on a career in musical theatre, working as assistant choreographer to Kenn Oldfield and appearing in the West End and on tour in a series of musicals including 42nd Street, My One and Only, Nine, Mr Wonderful, Annie Get your Gun and Cats.
By 1995, inspired in part by seeing Adrian Noble’s classic 1994 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Stratford, he was laying the foundations of an acting career, appearing at the Actors’ Centre’s Tristram Bates Theatre as Macliesh in Willis Hall’s The Long and the Short and the Tall, and at the Old School Manchester as Henry in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, Flan in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation and Biff in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. He was also studying for a Society of British Fight Directors qualification.
This was the year that Richard enrolled on a three-year Acting course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Here he appeared in student productions including Pericles as Antiochus the Great, David Copperfield as Uriah Heep, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart as Felix, and as Buscher in Manfred Karge’s metaphorical drama of unemployment The Conquest of the South Pole.
In his final year at LAMDA, an advert on the college notice board for film extras led to his first experience of acting in a feature film: a one-line role in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It was a humble, though interesting, entry into film: “I felt very nervous saying my line - I had practised it for three weeks… I actually ended up as a computer graphic in the film, I think”. [4] Despite being unidentifiable on screen, he found himself besieged by Star Wars fans when touring Japan with the RSC two years later.
Graduating in the summer of 1998, he immediately joined the cast of Hamlet at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, having already appeared at the Edinburgh Festival
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February 10, 2015
Richard Armitage could read me the phone book and I'd be okay with it.
April 14, 2021
I'm already honouring my resolution to read more poetry this year.
& what better way than to listen to the silken voiced Richard Armitage turn a 3★ poem like Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson into a 5★ experience. Armitage captures all the passionate yearning in this poem that I have previously missed.
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. Played twice to get the full impact of this beautiful sonnet, read by this beautiful voice. 5★
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Sampled as this poem is mentioned in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. But even Richard (may I call you Richard? ♥) can't lift this maudlin bit of dreck! I'm now "reading" these poems on You Tube, so this book may feature a different recording, but the title and the first couple of lines weren't that clear for me. 3★
So now we are into February. & what better way to start the month than to hear Richard read one of my favourite love poems, How do I love thee?by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The reading was over all too quickly. 5★
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron. On You Tube it was nearly as much of a pleasure to watch Richard reading as it was to listen to his beautiful voice. You could see he felt every word. Such a passionate poem! I'm going to re-listen. 5★
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This man was created to read love poetry! So passionate.5★
March
I carry your heart by e. e. cummings. This may not be the best poem in the collection but I think this is Richard's best reading. Wow! I'm all a tingle! 5★
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning. Determined cheapskate that I am, I have found Richard reading this on You Tube as well! So beautiful. 5★
Bright Star by John Keats. I had to leave You Tube & listen on Soundcloud for this poem. Richard's voice changes from silk to velvet for this one. It really is a wonderful poem! 5★
April
I'm having to dig even deeper to find Richard reading these poems for free! I found this one on someone's Twitter page.
Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Richard's Voice sounded deeper than usual - almost raspy. Not my favourite of the selected poems. 4.5★
& I am back to You Tube!
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 As soon as I heard it I remembered it. Not a love poem but some beautiful writing, beautifully read! 5★
Sadly I haven't been to find all Richard's readings online. But I have been able to read the poems. I'm going to rate them individually, but include the ratings in my overall review of this book - because who can compare to Richard? ♥
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem... Narrator: Unknown.
The reading is average other than he does convey Marvell's impatience. This is a wonderful poem about frustration and longing & I would love to read more about Marvell who (to put it mildly) had a most interesting life. A 5★ poem, a 3.5★ reading.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, read by the one & only Richard Burton. Discovered on You Tube & as a bonus, Burton also reads The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Ralegh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=...
Was the first poem sped up? Burton appears to be rushing which is contrast to his reading of the Ralegh poem. Both poems were wonderful 5★ for the poems & Burtons reading of the Ralegh, 4★ for his reading of the Marlowe. Even rushed Burton still has a wonderful voice made for reading poetry.
The Dream I've just been listening to Edna St Vincent Millay reading her own poems on You Tube. So wonderful, considering Millay died in 1950. I recommend you do the same, but so far I can't find Ms Millay reading this one! On Sound Cloud Xe Sand with her lovely, almost ethereal voice does a very fine job, but this isn't my favourite Millay poem. 5★ reading 4★ poem.
I'm going to ignore Annabel Lee and give the Armitage readings 5★ I can't decide if I prefer to listen to Armitage or Burton - & I really don't need to. Both were quite fabulous!
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& what better way than to listen to the silken voiced Richard Armitage turn a 3★ poem like Maud by Alfred, Lord Tennyson into a 5★ experience. Armitage captures all the passionate yearning in this poem that I have previously missed.
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. Played twice to get the full impact of this beautiful sonnet, read by this beautiful voice. 5★
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe. Sampled as this poem is mentioned in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. But even Richard (may I call you Richard? ♥) can't lift this maudlin bit of dreck! I'm now "reading" these poems on You Tube, so this book may feature a different recording, but the title and the first couple of lines weren't that clear for me. 3★
So now we are into February. & what better way to start the month than to hear Richard read one of my favourite love poems, How do I love thee?by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The reading was over all too quickly. 5★
She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron. On You Tube it was nearly as much of a pleasure to watch Richard reading as it was to listen to his beautiful voice. You could see he felt every word. Such a passionate poem! I'm going to re-listen. 5★
Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This man was created to read love poetry! So passionate.5★
March
I carry your heart by e. e. cummings. This may not be the best poem in the collection but I think this is Richard's best reading. Wow! I'm all a tingle! 5★
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning. Determined cheapskate that I am, I have found Richard reading this on You Tube as well! So beautiful. 5★
Bright Star by John Keats. I had to leave You Tube & listen on Soundcloud for this poem. Richard's voice changes from silk to velvet for this one. It really is a wonderful poem! 5★
April
I'm having to dig even deeper to find Richard reading these poems for free! I found this one on someone's Twitter page.
Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Richard's Voice sounded deeper than usual - almost raspy. Not my favourite of the selected poems. 4.5★
& I am back to You Tube!
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 As soon as I heard it I remembered it. Not a love poem but some beautiful writing, beautifully read! 5★
Sadly I haven't been to find all Richard's readings online. But I have been able to read the poems. I'm going to rate them individually, but include the ratings in my overall review of this book - because who can compare to Richard? ♥
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem... Narrator: Unknown.
The reading is average other than he does convey Marvell's impatience. This is a wonderful poem about frustration and longing & I would love to read more about Marvell who (to put it mildly) had a most interesting life. A 5★ poem, a 3.5★ reading.
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe, read by the one & only Richard Burton. Discovered on You Tube & as a bonus, Burton also reads The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Ralegh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=...
Was the first poem sped up? Burton appears to be rushing which is contrast to his reading of the Ralegh poem. Both poems were wonderful 5★ for the poems & Burtons reading of the Ralegh, 4★ for his reading of the Marlowe. Even rushed Burton still has a wonderful voice made for reading poetry.
The Dream I've just been listening to Edna St Vincent Millay reading her own poems on You Tube. So wonderful, considering Millay died in 1950. I recommend you do the same, but so far I can't find Ms Millay reading this one! On Sound Cloud Xe Sand with her lovely, almost ethereal voice does a very fine job, but this isn't my favourite Millay poem. 5★ reading 4★ poem.
I'm going to ignore Annabel Lee and give the Armitage readings 5★ I can't decide if I prefer to listen to Armitage or Burton - & I really don't need to. Both were quite fabulous!
https://wordpress.com/view/carolshess...
February 14, 2016
Classic Love Poems
This audiobook was a freebie Audible gave its members last year but I never listened to it before.
I should mentioned that when it comes to Poetry, I am pretty much a total illiterate, but I remain a romantic at heart and very much enjoyed these lovely selection.
Here are a few of my favorites ones, but believe me listening to Richard Armitage read them to you is WAY better. Seriously, the guy can make the writing on a cereal box sound romantic!
Happy Valentine's Day everybody!
This audiobook was a freebie Audible gave its members last year but I never listened to it before.
I should mentioned that when it comes to Poetry, I am pretty much a total illiterate, but I remain a romantic at heart and very much enjoyed these lovely selection.
Here are a few of my favorites ones, but believe me listening to Richard Armitage read them to you is WAY better. Seriously, the guy can make the writing on a cereal box sound romantic!
I Carry Your Heart With Me- By E. E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
The Dream- By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love, if I weep it will not matter,
And if you laugh I shall not care;
Foolish am I to think about it,
But it is good to feel you there.
Love, in my sleep I dreamed of waking,
White and awful the moonlight reached
Over the floor, and somewhere, somewhere,
There was a shutter loose, it screeched!
Swung in the wind, and no wind blowing!
I was afraid, and turned to you,
Put out my hand to you for comfort,
And you were gone! Cold, cold as dew,
Under my hand the moonlight lay!
Love, if you laugh I shall not care,
But if I weep it will not matter,
Ah, it is good to feel you there!
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love- By Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dale and field,
And all the craggy mountains yield.
There will we sit upon the rocks
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
There will I make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
A belt of straw and ivy buds
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my Love.
Thy silver dishes for thy meat
As precious as the gods do eat,
Shall on an ivory table be
Prepared each day for thee and me.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my Love.
Happy Valentine's Day everybody!
January 13, 2024
Beautiful compilation of poems. Annabelle Lee has always been and, I guess, will always be my favorite.
August 29, 2017
Love poems read by the lovely Richard Armitage... Need I say more?
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February 14, 2015Audible Freebie for Valentines Day, Classic Love Poems is FREE until 3/9/15.!! http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/FR...
For anyone who's in love - or hopes to be - what greater celebration could there be than to hear the world's greatest love poetry read lovingly by Richard Armitage? With 15 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day.
Included in this collection are:
"How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
"To Be One with Each Other" by George Eliot
"Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
"Bright Star" by John Keats
"Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
"The Dream" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
"I carry your heart" by e. e. cummings
"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
"Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the Performer
Richard Armitage is known to movie audiences around the world as "Thorin Oakenshield" in the trilogy of films based on The Hobbit. Born in Leicester, England, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Armitage has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and created memorable roles on Robin Hood, North & South, and other British TV series.
Public Domain (P)2015 Audible Inc.
For anyone who's in love - or hopes to be - what greater celebration could there be than to hear the world's greatest love poetry read lovingly by Richard Armitage? With 15 poems by William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and more, Classic Love Poems is a listening treat for Valentine's Day - or any day.
Included in this collection are:
"How do I love thee?" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
"To Be One with Each Other" by George Eliot
"Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
"Bright Star" by John Keats
"Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
"The Dream" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe
"I carry your heart" by e. e. cummings
"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
"Give All to Love" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
About the Performer
Richard Armitage is known to movie audiences around the world as "Thorin Oakenshield" in the trilogy of films based on The Hobbit. Born in Leicester, England, and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Armitage has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and created memorable roles on Robin Hood, North & South, and other British TV series.
Public Domain (P)2015 Audible Inc.
December 9, 2018
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
And the voice of: Richard Armitage
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806 - 1861
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
And the voice of: Richard Armitage
June 5, 2023
Beautiful read by my fave, Richard Armitage.
Unexpected was the passage from the Bible… a reading from the Corinthians we chose when we got married many moons ago. Love is patient, love is kind..
I wish I read more poetry when I was younger. Collections like these make me appreciate it.
Unexpected was the passage from the Bible… a reading from the Corinthians we chose when we got married many moons ago. Love is patient, love is kind..
I wish I read more poetry when I was younger. Collections like these make me appreciate it.
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March 2, 2018I mean, it was Richard Armitage reading LOVE POETRY. 19 minutes of pure swoon. Particular highlights include dark, brooding Richard reading "Anabel Lee" in a very Thorin Oakenshield kind of angst, the gorgeous "Maud" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and a Christopher Marlowe poem that I read and loved in high school and had forgotten existed. All the stars to Richard Armitage's voice. Mmmmmmmmmm. *heart eyes*
May 20, 2020
Ah, Richard Armitage reading love poetry, what more do you want? Well, keep your x-rated comments to yourself.
Nice collection. Bonus points for including work from the Bible that was not Song of Songs. Good definition of love.
Nice collection. Bonus points for including work from the Bible that was not Song of Songs. Good definition of love.
February 26, 2015
Yeah, why not. It's almost Valentines'/ Singles Awareness Day anyway. Not really a big fan of poetry.... But, who am I kidding, it's Richard Armitage who's reading the poems. Of course I have to listen to this! Haha. Plus, it's free at Audible. Only, too bad they don't let you download the file in mp3 formats. But, I guess, it's okay. I've downloaded their app on my phone and I've been listening to this since this morning.
To Richard, "Come live with me and be my love." Teehee.
To Richard, "Come live with me and be my love." Teehee.
January 2, 2021
Richard Armitage could read, well, anything.
I can't think properly to rate this fairly, so take all this with a grain of salt. I mean, the poems are mostly well-known and they are all lovely. Since someone else has chosen this short collection, it is as wonderful as it can be.
Add his voice and the way he pronounces the words into the mix and one can't think properly.
Really liked it.
I can't think properly to rate this fairly, so take all this with a grain of salt. I mean, the poems are mostly well-known and they are all lovely. Since someone else has chosen this short collection, it is as wonderful as it can be.
Add his voice and the way he pronounces the words into the mix and one can't think properly.
Really liked it.
October 17, 2022
There is something about Richard Armitage's voice that just makes me want to fall in love...
I had to see how much justice he could do to some of my favorites like Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and Corinthians 13. It was exactly what I was hoping it would be I just wish there were more poems than the few that were included in this collection.
I had to see how much justice he could do to some of my favorites like Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and Corinthians 13. It was exactly what I was hoping it would be I just wish there were more poems than the few that were included in this collection.
April 16, 2022
Jā, dzeja nudien nav mans lauciņš. Bet, ja man nepatiktu klasiska mīlas dzeja, kas klusi skan ausīs viena no maniem mīļākajiem aktieriem samtainajā balsī, nez vai es varētu sevi identificēt par sievieti. Šis nudien bija izcils atradums, kas iekļauts Audible abonementā.
January 23, 2019
Great reading...but I still just don't really like poetry, as most of these either annoyed or bored me. A couple were okay. All I could think of during the much-beloved 'She Walks in Beauty' was what douchecanoes Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were.
I don’t totally hate this collection, though, and if you like poetry, I think you will love this reading.
I don’t totally hate this collection, though, and if you like poetry, I think you will love this reading.
July 12, 2019
Featuring 15 poems written by what we know consider to be some of the best writers and poets, such as Yeats, Browning, Shakespeare, Eliot and Poe to name a few, this collection runs about 19 minutes long at the 1.0 speed and it was just fantastic to hear them read by Richard Armitage especially when he reads Christopher Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'.
I fell in love again with a lot of these because of Armitage's voice and his cadence as he read these... this was too short-lived, clocking in at barely 20 minutes at the 1.0 speed so I've been re-listening to it on and off since yesterday just because I can.
You don't have to be a fan of the actor to hear the depth of emotion in those few lines and feel that this man feels that emotion. He read it as a man besotted with whomever these words are for and that's what I want to hear in a narrator reading romance; THE ROMANCE! I always tell people that he could read the phone book to me, and I would be as equally as besotted as long as he keeps reading/ talking.
2.5 for the poetry included and another 1.5 for the narration.
I fell in love again with a lot of these because of Armitage's voice and his cadence as he read these... this was too short-lived, clocking in at barely 20 minutes at the 1.0 speed so I've been re-listening to it on and off since yesterday just because I can.
You don't have to be a fan of the actor to hear the depth of emotion in those few lines and feel that this man feels that emotion. He read it as a man besotted with whomever these words are for and that's what I want to hear in a narrator reading romance; THE ROMANCE! I always tell people that he could read the phone book to me, and I would be as equally as besotted as long as he keeps reading/ talking.
2.5 for the poetry included and another 1.5 for the narration.
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February 2, 2021The audiobook is performed by the utterly fabulous Richard Armitage. Love poems and Armitage are a perfect match, believe me. He gets a five. Overall, the book gets a four since I wasn't enthralled by every poem, classic or not. This is such a short read, but well worth it. I will listen again some day.
February 14, 2015
Beautifully narrated!
January 3, 2020
Narration - 5+++++ stars. It's Richard "John Thornton" Armitage reading love poems *swoon*
Poetry - 3 stars. It's a good sampler of love poems if you're in the mood, but it's a pretty mixed bag. There wasn't anything I was desperate to re-listen to, but there also wasn't anything that was awful. For me the real draw was the narrator, so take my two cents for what it's worth.
Poetry - 3 stars. It's a good sampler of love poems if you're in the mood, but it's a pretty mixed bag. There wasn't anything I was desperate to re-listen to, but there also wasn't anything that was awful. For me the real draw was the narrator, so take my two cents for what it's worth.
May 17, 2018
A beautiful reading of classic love poems by Richard Armitage. My eyes filled with tears.
August 30, 2018
Richard Armitage and classic love poems. How can this not be 5-Stars? I need Richard Armitage to be my GPS voice.
December 25, 2016
This collection of poems is a beautiful pinctada maxima keeping inside 15 pearls which once touched by your sight will change their heart contouring shapes into invisible powerful waves that will instantaneously take you in the middle of the eye of a cyclone swirling around you breath taking mesmerizing images showing an impressive display of the never changing world of what poets define to be love. All the poems are hauntingly beautiful, but I think
Sonnet 116 by W. Shakespeare and 'I carry your heart' by e.e. cummings have something special.
I found on youtube 2 wonderful readings of these poems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBJ3-...
The following link might be useful to those not familiar with Shakespeare's poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnOE...
'I carry your heart' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5H7...)
'i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)'
Sonnet 116
'Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd'
Sonnet 116 by W. Shakespeare and 'I carry your heart' by e.e. cummings have something special.
I found on youtube 2 wonderful readings of these poems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBJ3-...
The following link might be useful to those not familiar with Shakespeare's poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnOE...
'I carry your heart' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF5H7...)
'i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)'
Sonnet 116
'Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd'
August 2, 2015
Just when the 'North and South' withdrawal symptoms were worsening, I found this little gem. A classic never feels outdated and I will begrudgingly acknowledge that there is good reason for it in the case of this collection. Given the narrator, there is no question that all the poems would be performed superbly.
Standouts: "Maud" by Alfred Tennyson, "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "I carry your heart" by E.E. Cummings.
Standouts: "Maud" by Alfred Tennyson, "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "I carry your heart" by E.E. Cummings.
June 13, 2016
This made my month. Having a bad day? Listen to Thorin Oakenshield read you some lovely love poems!
March 20, 2019
Richard Armitage narrating love poems should be considered a crime against ovaries.
April 12, 2017
Beautifully read, Audible freebie that will be a treat to revisit from time to time.
April 20, 2017
Excellent collection and narration. All of these are such beautiful love poems. I can see myself listening to this frequently.
December 2, 2018
Beautifully read by Richard Armitage!!
November 21, 2021
Richard Armitage + love poems=be still my heart!
This audiobook is 19 minutes long. As soon as it finished, I hit play again! Since listening to it for the first time, I've relistened at least twice more. <3 I'm hoping that another volume will come out, but since this was released in 2015, I'm guessing that's probably not going to happen.
This audiobook is 19 minutes long. As soon as it finished, I hit play again! Since listening to it for the first time, I've relistened at least twice more. <3 I'm hoping that another volume will come out, but since this was released in 2015, I'm guessing that's probably not going to happen.
June 6, 2022
Like Elizabeth Bennet, I am not one for poetry. However, when Richard armitage is narrating it makes the endeavor significantly more enticing.
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