Poetry Cafe 166: Poetic Spring

Poetic Spring:  ‘Spring in the Air‘? ‘Spring through Poetry!’

Playlist: texts read and music played
1. Vaughan Williams – ‘The Lark Ascending’
2. ‘The rain in Spain…’ (from ‘My Fair Lady’)
3. W.H. Davies: ‘Leisure’
4. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’
5. R. McGough: ‘The Fight of the Year’
6. K. Grahame: from ‘The Wind in the Willows’ (Ch. 1)
7. Vivaldi: Spring (from ‘The Four Seasons’): 1. Allegro
8. W. Wordsworth: ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ (‘Daffodils’)
9. C. Mew: ‘I so Liked Spring’
10. W.C. Williams: ‘This is Just to Say’
11. E. Morgan: ‘Strawberries’
12. R. Burns: ‘My love is like a red, red rose’
13. R. McGough: ‘Comeclose and Sleepnow’
14. R. McGough: ‘Once upon a love…’
15. R. McGough: ’40-Love’
16. J. Lennon & P. McCartney: ‘Help!’
17. W. Cope: ‘Bloody Men’
18. Vivaldi: Spring (from ‘The Four Seasons’): 3. Allegro