Welcome to Buddy's World of Favourite Classic Love poems ....read by Bill Charlton


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spoken poetry, poetry of the heart, tragic love poems, epic love poems, lovers poems, the nature of love, the power of love, Christian love and spirituality, the deep emotions of life and death, love poems and poetic prose about lovers, partners, children, parents, pets; spiritual poetry about life and death, missing and caring; heaven. ......NEXT

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THE LIGHT IN YOUR EYES MY LOVE

good old love poem.

THE HIGHWAYMAN by Alfred Noyes

A reading of a favourite love poem. First of a classic collection.I listened spellbound to this as a child at my grandfathers knee.

LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER by Thomas Campbell

A reading of a favourite Scottish love poem.

OTOCEC by Bill Charlton

A personal tale of bloody war in the Balkans

THE HOUND OF HEAVEN by Francis Thompson

A reading of a favourite Christian love poem.

BETH GELERT by William Robert Spencer

A reading of a favourite Welsh legend about the love of a dog.

CODE POEM FOR THE FRENCH RESISTANCE by Leo Marx

Code poem to compose secret messages used by Odette and other hero's and heroines of the war in France.

THE GREEN EYE OF THE LITTLE YELLOW GOD by J. Milton Hayes

Tragic love poem set in India.

MORTE D'ARTHUR by Alfred Tennyson

Death of a King and the end of a Golden Age.

THE DAFFODILS by William Wordsworth

Every childs favourite poem?.

HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN by W.B. Yeats

Treading on a carpet of dreams.

KUBLA KHAN by Samual Taylor Coleridge

Paradise at Xanadu.

DESIDERATA by Max Ehrmann

A reading of a famous recipe for happiness.

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER DAY by William Shakespeare

A reading of a favourite love poem by the Master Poet Himself.

FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE by Rudyard Kipling

War poetry. The Anglo/American beating heart. Life and Love depend upon freedom. This sustained my grandfather through two World Wars.

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD by Thomas Gray

My all-time favourite. Reflections on Life and Fate and Destiny.


ABIDE WITH ME by Henry Francis Lyte

A Great Cry of Christian love and faith written as he lay dying.

IN FLANDERS FIELDS by John McCrae

The Soldiers tale in the Heat of Battle passing the Torch of Freedom to us.

THE SOLDIER by Rupert Brooke

Second poem of the Love of Freedom told by a soldier in the Heat of Battle.

AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION by Dylan Thomas

Hope and faith and determination in the language of the Valleys. My friend since schooldays.

IF by Rudyard Kipling

The Measure of a Man.

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT by Dylan Thomas

Evocative lilt and passion in the language of the Welsh Valleys. The years roll up in an instant as I read and I am back in the land of my childhood.

ECHO by Christina Rossetti

Death has no dominion. Love lives on and is eternal.

DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP

An Ancient anonymous reassurance that our loved ones live on with us.

TO ALL PARENTS by Edgar Guest

Peaceful and comforting reflections when mourning the death of a child.

ON CHANGE OF WEATHERS by Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

Life is Bittersweet. Wisdom from 4 centuries ago.

A RED, RED ROSE by Robert Burns

The classic expression of Love par excellence.

A PSALM OF LIFE by Henry Longfellow

Footprints on the Sands of Time. What do we leave behind for others to see of our lives?

BAMBOO by Eric Hague

New Lives for Old.

CELTIC BENEDICTION

An Ancient Blessing JUST FOR YOU.

THE DAY IS DONE by H. W. Longfellow

Peace at the end of the day.


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