The Metaphysical Poets

00:51

Sir Robert Ayton - To His Forsaken Mistress

01:10

Anne Bradstreet - Verses Upon the Burning of Our House July 18th 1666

02:43

Anne Bradstreet - Autumn

03:14

Thomas Carew - Lips and Eyes

00:47

Thomas Carew - The Spring

01:23

Thomas Carew - Celia Singing

00:44

John Cleveland - The Rebel Scot

06:07

Abraham Cowley - A Supplication

01:30

Abraham Cowley - The Given Heart

00:59

William Davenant - To a Mistress Dying

00:53

William Davenant - Ladies in Arms

00:56

William Davenant - Praise and Prayer

00:46

John Donne - The Expiration

00:51

John Donne - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning

01:54

John Donne - The Relic

01:38

John Donne - For Whom the Bell Tolls

04:28

John Donne - Death Be Not Proud

00:58

John Donne - Nativity

00:56

John Donne - The Storm

Gideon Wagner

05:02

Sidney Godolphin - Wishes.To His Supposed Mistress

04:13

Sidney Godolphin - No More Unto My Thoughts Appear

00:58

George Herbert - Church Monuments

01:24

George Herbert - Discipline

00:52

George Herbert - Virtue

Glyn Houston

00:56

George Herbert - Faith

02:08

Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury - Sonnet of Black Beauty

00:48

Thomas Heyrick - On a Sunbeam

02:22

Henry King - Renunciation

01:48

Richard Lovelace - Sonnet

00:45

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

David Shaw-Parker

02:38

Andrew Marvell - A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body

02:06

John Milton - How Soon Hath Time

01:01

John Milton - Paradise Lost (An Extract)

07:55

John Milton - On the Morning of Christs Nativity

01:42

John Milton - On Shakespeare

Eleanor Bron

01:00

Katherine Phillips - Against Love

00:53

Katherine Phillips - To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage

00:47

F Quarles - Bowls

02:41

Robert Southwell - New Prince New Pomp

01:18

Robert Southwell - The Burning Babe

01:23

Thomas Stanley - Celia, Sleeping or Singing

01:10

Sir John Suckling - Upon Christ His Birth

00:38

Thomas Traherne - In Making Bodies Love Could Not Express

01:42

Henry Vaughan - Friends Departed

01:51

Henry Vaughan - The Waterfall

Angharad Rees

02:14

Edmund Waller - Go Lovely Rose

Alex Jennings

00:58

Lord John Wilmot - Absent of Thee I Languish Still