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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Philip Larkin, To The Sea.
"Everything crowds under the low horizon:
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Mark Jarman, Reminder.
"You're here and God's in heaven..."
From the …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Thom Gunn, The Hug.
"I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug..."
…
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Laurence Binyon, For The Fallen.
"At the going down of the sun and …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Ezra Pound, The Ballad of the Goodly Fere.
"No capon priest was the …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by AE Housman.
"Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a sonnet by William Shakespeare.
"From you have I been absent in the spring,
…
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Jorge Luis Borges, in a translation by Alastair Reid, The Just.
"A …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by John Clare, The Skylark.
"Up from their hurry, see, the skylark …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
"Come live …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Mary Oliver, The Summer Day.
"Who made the world?
Who made the swan, …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Thomas Campion, Now Winter Nights Enlarge.
"Now winter nights enlarge
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, Evening, in a translation by Stephen Mitchell.
"…
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day.
"And so the Shortest Day came and …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush.
"I leant upon a coppice gate
When …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Sara Teesdale, A Winter Blue Jay.
"Crisply the bright snow whispered,
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rowan Williams, Advent Calendar.
"He will come like last leaf’s fall.
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Wislawa Symborska, Children of Our Age.
"All day long, all through …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Mary Oliver, Wild Geese.
"You do not have to be good.
You do not …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, The Way Through The Woods.
"They shut the road …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Christian Wiman, All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs.
"All my …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
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With a poem by Thomas Hardy, The Ruined Maid.
"O 'Melia, my dear, this does …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem …
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With a poem …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in East London, as the capital starts to wake up. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Louis MacNeice, an extract from Autumn Journal.
"September has come, …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Rudyard …
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With a poem by Edward …
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With a poem by RS …
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With an extract from Virgil's Georgics.
"So all things are fated
to slide towards the worst, …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Adam Zagajewski, Try to Praise the Mutilated World.
"Remember the moments …
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With a poem by AE Housman, an extract from Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff.
"And malt does …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Vagabond.
"Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor …
Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com
With a poem by RS Thomas, Raptor.
"You have made God small,
setting him astride
a pipette or …
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With a poem by CP …
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With a poem by Dale Wimbrow, The Guy in the Glass.
"When you get what you want in your …
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With a poem by Robert Frost, Mowing.
"There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And …
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With a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bright is the Ring of Words.
"Bright is the ring of …
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With a poem by Hilaire Belloc, Tarantella.
"Do you remember an inn, Miranda?
Do you remember …
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With a poem by Stephen Spender, The Pylons.
"The secret of these hills was stone, and …
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With a poem by Ben …
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With a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, an extract from Maud.
"Ah God, for a man with heart, …
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With a poem by Felix Dennis, An English Light.
"9:45 on a fine June night,
I watch from the …
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With a poem by Thomas Hardy, Drummer Hodge.
"They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest
Uncoffined …
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With a poem by William …
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With a poem by Philip Larkin, an extract from The Whitsun Weddings.
"All afternoon, through …
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With a poem by TS …
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With a poem by Christian Wiman, Prague.
"When I was learning words
…
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With a poem by ee cummings, i thank You, God.
"i thank You God for most this amazing
day: …
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With a poem by GK …
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With a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, A Walk.
"My eyes already touch the sunny hill.
going far …
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With a poem by Alcuin,
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With an extract from Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats.
"I cannot see what flowers are at …
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With a sonnet by William Shakespeare.
"When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all …
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by …
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by …
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by …
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by …
Hello from Suffolk, England.
Sit back and enjoy five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by Lord …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Take five minutes for a dose of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by Charles …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Take five minutes for a dose of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With the opening of …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm recorded in the peace of the English countryside. With a poem by RS Thomas, …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm. With a poem by William Wordsworth, Nuns Fret Not.
"Nuns fret not at their …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm. With a poem, The Quiet Life by Alexander Pope.
"Happy the man whose wish and care
…
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With an extract from Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Theo Dorgan, The Promised Garden.
"There …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Siegfried Sassoon, Everyone Sang.
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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Percy Shelley, Ozymandias.
"I met a …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by T.S. Eliot, Portrait of a Lady.
"Now that …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Happy St George's Day. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Norman MacCaig, Summer Farm.
"Straws like …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Shakespeare, John of Gaunt's …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by a 9th-century Irish monk, Pangur Ban.
"I …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, the opening of his …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Rudyard Kipling, Norman and Saxon.
"My …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Robert Frost, The Tuft of Flowers.
"I went …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Alfred Joyce Kilmer, Trees.
"I think that …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by George Herbert, Love, iii.
"Love bade me …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Edward Thomas, Adlestrop.
"Yes. I remember …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Blake, The Tyger.
"Tyger Tyger, …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Christina Rossetti, The Lambs of Grasmere.
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Emily Dickinson, 'Hope' is the thing with …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Robert Browning, Home Thoughts, From Abroad
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Philip Larkin, The Trees.
"The trees are …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by William Wordsworth, Upon Westminster Bridge
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by John Donne, The Sun Rising.
"Busy old …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here’s five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a moment from Wind in the Willows and Spring by …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here’s five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With some weekend Wodehouse and John Clare's On a Lane in …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here’s five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With John Milton's On His Blindness.
"They also serve who …
Happy new year from Suffolk, England. It’s Lady Day and here’s five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With an extract from Sir …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by John Betjeman, Seaside Golf.
"How straight …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by Brother Richard Hendrick, OFM, Lockdown.
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Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm to start your day right. With a poem by RS Thomas, The Bright Field.
"I have seen …
Hello from Suffolk, England. Here's five minutes of civilised calm from the English countryside to start your day right. With a poem about Alcuin of …
However you start your day, add a bite-sized serving of civilised calm from Suffolk, England. With a poem by John Masefield: “Epilogue”.
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