A Game of Chess
read in the voice of T. S. Eliot
Audio recitations — Storgy
Poems readaloud.
152 poems from the public-domain canon, recited and engineered for clean listening. Stream every reading free — Storgy plan members can save the branded MP3 to their device.
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Reciter 01
Alfred, Lord Tennyson2 recordings · 2m total
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Algernon Charles Swinburne1 recording · 0m total
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Andrew Marvell1 recording · 1m total
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Archibald Lampman3 recordings · 0m total
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Ben Jonson1 recording · 0m total
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Christina Rossetti2 recordings · 1m total
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D. H. Lawrence2 recordings · 0m total
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Edgar Allan Poe4 recordings · 3m total
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Edward Lear1 recording · 1m total
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning2 recordings · 1m total
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Emily Dickinson14 recordings · 6m total
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A Bird, came down the Walk
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A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers
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I Died for Beauty
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I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
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I like a look of Agony
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I’m Nobody! Who are you?
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I never saw a Moor
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I started Early Took my Dog
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I taste a liquor never brewed
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Much Madness is Divinest Sense
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The Brain is Wider than the Sky
0:31 - 33
Wild Nights Wild Nights
0:17
Reciter 12
Emma Lazarus2 recordings · 1m total
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Eugene Field2 recordings · 1m total
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George Eliot1 recording · 0m total
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George Gordon Byron2 recordings · 1m total
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow42 recordings · 26m total
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A Fragment
0:21 - 42
Aglaia
0:15 - 43
Angels Ministrant
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An Old Jew
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A Psalm of Life
1:25 - 46
Atropos
0:20 - 47
By Christoph August Tiedge
0:19 - 48
By Gil Vicente
0:19 - 49
Canzone
0:17 - 50
Captains
0:16 - 51
Cardinal Marcello
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Chorus of Birds
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Chorus of Dryades
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Chorus of Reeds
0:15 - 55
Delia
0:19 - 56
Endicott
0:18 - 57
Euphrosyne
0:16 - 58
Forester
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Friar John
0:14 - 60
Gaspar
0:19 - 61
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
0:14 - 62
Julia
0:20 - 63
Julius
0:19 - 64
Lachesis
0:18 - 65
Melchior
0:16 - 66
My Lost Youth
3:24 - 67
Old Age
0:42 - 68
Orifel
0:17 - 69
Rain in Summer
3:03 - 70
Rhymes
0:16 - 71
Samaritan Woman
0:18 - 72
Songo River
1:35 - 73
The Bridegroom
0:17 - 74
The Builders
1:17 - 75
The City and the Sea
0:36 - 76
THE CONTRACT was considered almost as binding as a marriage. Remember
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The Harvest Moon
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The Musicians
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The Singers
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The Wreck of the Hesperus
3:22 - 81
Thomas
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Titian
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Reciter 17
James Russell Lowell17 recordings · 11m total
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Build out its piers: The beams of light are like the piers or
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Elder than the Day: Elder than the first Day. "And God called
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For a Memorial Window to Sir Walter Raleigh, Set up in St. Margaret's,
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Freedom
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It must not be forgotten that this old Sir Launfal is only in the
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Love
2:36 - 89
Monna Lisa
0:18 - 90
New-Year's Eve, 1850
0:48 - 91
Simond's hill: In the essay _Cambridge Thirty Years Ago_ Lowell
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The all-sustaining Beauty: The all-pervading spirit of God that
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The Broken Tryst
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The cowslip startles: Surprises the eye with its bright patches
0:16 - 95
Upon receiving the news that the war was ended, Lowell wrote to
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Visionary tints: The term Indian summer is given to almost any
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When Moses sent men to "spy out" the Promised Land, they reported
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Without avail: Was Sir Launfal's long quest entirely without
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With this passage read the last two stanzas of _Mr. Hosea Biglow
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John Donne2 recordings · 2m total
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John Keats3 recordings · 4m total
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John Milton1 recording · 0m total
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Lewis Carroll1 recording · 1m total
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Matthew Arnold1 recording · 1m total
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Paul Laurence Dunbar1 recording · 1m total
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Percy Bysshe Shelley8 recordings · 11m total
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Robert Burns3 recordings · 3m total
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Robert Frost3 recordings · 1m total
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Robert Herrick2 recordings · 1m total
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Rudyard Kipling1 recording · 1m total
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge2 recordings · 3m total
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T. S. Eliot2 recordings · 5m total
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Walt Whitman4 recordings · 1m total
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W. B. Yeats3 recordings · 2m total
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Wilfred Owen1 recording · 0m total
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William Blake6 recordings · 3m total
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William Ernest Henley1 recording · 0m total
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William Shakespeare6 recordings · 4m total
Reciter 37
William Wordsworth2 recordings · 1m total
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