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It was not Death, for I stood up

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By Emily Dickinson

It’s all I have to bring today

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 214

By Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is divinest Sense

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By Emily Dickinson

Of Bronze—and Blaze—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 54

By Emily Dickinson

Tell all the truth but tell it slant

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By Emily Dickinson

The Grass so little has to do

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 215

By Emily Dickinson

The Heart asks Pleasure first

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 13

By Emily Dickinson

There’s a certain Slant of light

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 96

By Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the World

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Emily Dickinson

This World is not Conclusion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 216

By Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 16

By Emily Dickinson

We grow accustomed to the Dark—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 82

By Emily Dickinson

You cannot put a Fire out—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 123

By Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 78

By Emily Dickinson

Read by Juliet Stevenson

A Dialogue Between Sir Henry Wotton and Mr. Donne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 59

By John Donne

A Fever

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 100

By John Donne

A Hymn to God the Father

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By John Donne

Read by Simon Russell Beale

A Jet Ring Sent

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 05

By John Donne

A Lecture upon the Shadow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 52

By John Donne

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 65

By John Donne

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By John Donne

A Valediction of My Name, in the Window

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 38

By John Donne

A Valediction of Weeping

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 35

By John Donne

Air and Angels

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 95

By John Donne

Break of Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 195

By John Donne

Community

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 01

By John Donne

Confined Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 67

By John Donne

Farewell to Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 50

By John Donne

Lovers’ Infiniteness

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 41

By John Donne

Love’s Alchemy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 18

By John Donne

Love’s Deity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 39

By John Donne

Love’s Diet

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 102

By John Donne

Love’s Exchange

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 11

By John Donne

Love’s Growth

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 29

By John Donne

Love’s Usury

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 28

By John Donne

Negative Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 20

By John Donne

Self-love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 169

By John Donne

Song: Go and catch a falling star

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 14

By John Donne

Song: Soul’s joy, now I am gone

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By John Donne

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