Carrion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins read by Charles Bryant Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me...

This is the sixty-fifth poem from the Cavafy canon. If you wish to see the whole series you can find it on my You Tube site http://uk.youtube.com/user/cavafyinenglish 65.IN THE EVENING Experience...

This is my 'treatment' (NOT an exact translation!) of the poem 'Becher am boden' from the volume 'Algabal' by the German poet Stefan George (1868-1933). The accompanying picture is 'The Roses...

This is a recent poem, written just before Christmas on a very cold December day. It speaks of parting and of the sense of the presence of the distant beloved, the haunting theme of the ferne...

Constantine Cavafy 69. GAZING All the beauty I ever saw before - yes, all of it; none of it abandoned - has turned into an archetypal image lost in the creeping foliage of my brain among thick...

This beautiful poem by Yeats is really one of his very best. And his best is made of gold and bronze. I dedicate this reading of the poem to The Lady Anne, Maras Veil, whose own beautiful poem...

This poem owes a great deal to the first sections of the translation of the Orphic Hymns published by Thomas Taylor in London in 1792 which is available on the Net. The pictures are mostly from...

John Gielgud in Prospero's Books

A Poem by Charles Bryant


Music and text both admirable,
concept intriguing, performance beyond reproach;
for...

The Wanderer

Translated by W. R Sims

Recited by Charles Bryant

Anglo-Saxon poetry can often be fairly maudlin. I have taken on when reading 'The...