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Ririro.com - Poetry
Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of classic poetry with Ririro.com - Poetry. This podcast offers a curated selection of works from literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and countless other masters. Each episode features carefully chosen poems brought to life through thoughtful narration, allowing you to experience the evocative language, profound themes, and enduring power of poetry in a new and engaging way. Whether you're a seasoned poetry enthusiast or a curious…
Episodes
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Auld Lang Syne
"Auld Lang Syne" by Robert Burns is a lyric poem about the enduring power of old friendships and the bittersweet pull of memory. Two old companions raise a cup…
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Autumn
"Autumn" by John Clare paints a blazing, almost paradoxical season — not of cool decay but of scorching heat and shimmering gold. Thistledown drifts on…
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The World Is Too Much With Us
The World Is Too Much With Us is a sonnet in which a restless speaker stands before a moonlit sea and confesses a deep unease with modern life. Consumed by…
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Ode To Autumn
"Ode To Autumn" by John Keats opens with a lush celebration of the season as a living presence — conspiring with the sun to ripen fruit, swell gourds, and fill…
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Autumn Day
"Autumn Day" by Rainer Maria Rilke opens with a direct address to God, urging the last warmth of summer to ripen the final fruits and press sweetness into the…
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Fall Leaves Fall
"Fall Leaves Fall" by Emily Brontë is a short lyric poem that finds fierce joy in autumn's decline and winter's approach. Where others might mourn falling…
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Mending Wall
"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost opens each spring with two neighbors walking their shared property line, restacking the stones that winter has tumbled down. As…
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" opens with a solitary speaker drifting aimlessly across valleys and hills until he stumbles upon a vast, shimmering field of…
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" is a short poem that follows a barefoot boy through summer fields, where something slips through the grass like a parted comb…
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A cap of lead across the sky
"A Cap of Lead Across the Sky" is a short poem that turns an oncoming thunderstorm into something close to dread. A heavy, leaden lid of cloud presses down…
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A Burdock—clawed my Gown
"A Burdock—clawed my Gown" is a short poem in which a snagged dress becomes a lesson in blame. The speaker admits she wandered too near the Burdock's den, then…
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A Bee his burnished Carriage
"A Bee his burnished Carriage" is a short poem that stages a bee's arrival at a rose as a grand, golden-wheeled visit. The bee drives boldly in, and the rose…
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Real
"Real" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that looks hard at the face of suffering and asks what cannot be faked. The speaker admires a look of agony precisely…
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The Hemlock
"The Hemlock" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a single evergreen into a portrait of stubborn endurance. The speaker pictures the tree standing at…
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Beclouded
Beclouded is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that captures a gloomy winter sky in just eight lines. A single travelling snowflake hesitates over a barn and a…
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Psalm of the Day
Psalm of the Day is a short poem in which a speaker follows a mysterious "something" through a summer's morning, noon and night. The feeling is hushed and…
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A little road not made of man
"A little road not made of man" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that invites you down a path no wheel or foot can travel. Only the eye can follow it, while a…
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The Grass
In "The Grass," a short poem to read online, Emily Dickinson looks at a green meadow with playful envy. The grass has little to do but host butterflies…
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Summer’s Armies
Summer's Armies is a short Emily Dickinson poem that turns the arrival of warm weather into a shimmering military parade. Dreamy butterflies stir, sleepy pools…
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The pedigree of honey
The Pedigree of Honey is a four-line poem that turns a bee's simple errand into a quiet lesson in perspective. While the world fusses over lineage and rank…
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New feet within my garden go
"New feet within my garden go" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that watches spring return to a quiet garden. Fresh footsteps and stirring fingers disturb…
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Apotheosis
Apotheosis is a short Emily Dickinson poem that opens with a hushed invitation: "Come slowly, Eden!" A bashful speaker, lips unused to such sweetness, sips…
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The Outlet
The Outlet is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a river speaks directly to the sea, begging to be welcomed. Across four tiny stanzas, the river's voice…
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Transplanted
Transplanted by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that follows a small Arctic flower as it wanders down the latitudes, away from the polar hem. Puzzled, it…
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Alter? When the hills do
"Alter? When the hills do" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that answers a lover's doubt with a vow of constancy. The speaker measures her devotion against…
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I taste a liquor never brewed
"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker gets drunk on nature itself. Dew, air and endless summer days replace…
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I never lost as much but twice
In "I never lost as much but twice," Emily Dickinson turns personal loss into a startling, compact confession. A speaker twice stands as a beggar before the…
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I shall know why when time is over
"I shall know why, when time is over" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a private ache into a vision of heavenly instruction. The speaker imagines…
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Death is a dialogue between
Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust in this compact Emily Dickinson poem, staged as a quiet argument. Death commands the spirit to dissolve…
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I reason, earth is short
"I reason, earth is short" is a compact Emily Dickinson poem that tests the comfort of logic against the weight of mortality. Across three brief stanzas, the…
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The Funeral
In "The Funeral," Emily Dickinson turns a sharp, sardonic eye on the bustle that surrounds a death. This short poem describes the brief stir each of us can…
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Two Worlds
Two Worlds is a short poem that sets the steady rhythm of nature beside the weight of human suffering. Emily Dickinson watches mornings bloom into noon…
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So bashful when I spied her
"So bashful when I spied her" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that follows a speaker who discovers a shy, blushing creature hidden among her leaflets. Tension…
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The bee is not afraid of me
"The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me" is a short poem in which a speaker walks through a summer wood and is welcomed by everything in it. The bee, the butterfly and…
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A Service of Song
A Service of Song is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker skips the church pew and keeps the Sabbath at home. A bobolink leads the choir, an…
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Why?
"Why?" is a short poem in which a speaker tries to explain the inexplicable pull of nature. A humming bee, a red glow on the hillside and the first light of…
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Renunciation
Renunciation is a short Emily Dickinson poem about a single summer day that arrives like a revelation. Two people share a silence so complete that words feel…
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The brain within its groove
"The Brain Within Its Groove" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that pictures the mind running smoothly along a familiar track. Then a single splinter swerves…
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Unreturning
"Unreturning" is a short Emily Dickinson poem about a little boat that toddles out across the bay, drawn away by a gallant, beckoning sea. In just eight lines…
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I had no time to hate, because
In "I had no time to hate, because," Emily Dickinson weighs love against enmity in just eight lines. The speaker looks at life's brevity and the grave waiting…
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A Book
"A Book" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that follows a reader who devours words as if they were food and drink. Poor and bound to a frail body, he finds…
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The Secret
The Secret, a short poem by Emily Dickinson, sets three quiet stanzas side by side: things that fly, things that stay, and things that rise while resting…
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Sleep is supposed to be
"Sleep is supposed to be" is a short poem that questions what we think we know about sleep and morning. Emily Dickinson begins with the everyday idea of sleep…
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If I shouldn’t be alive
"If I shouldn't be alive" is a short poem in which a speaker imagines their own death and leaves one tender request: when the robins return, give the one in…
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Emancipation
Emancipation is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that asks whether a person can truly be imprisoned. In four compact stanzas, a bold voice insists that no rack…
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To know just how he suffered
"To know just how he suffered" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that circles one aching question: what was it like to die? The speaker imagines a stranger's…
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From the Chrysalis
"From the Chrysalis" is a short poem that places you inside a tightening cocoon, where a restless speaker feels for air and senses a dim capacity for wings…
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Safe in their alabaster chambers
"Safe in their alabaster chambers" is a short poem that looks into a tomb where the faithful sleep, shut away from morning and noon. Above them, the breeze…
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Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower
In "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower," Emily Dickinson turns a simple shop counter into a spring riddle. A speaker offers blooms that can never be sold, only…
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Apocalypse
"Apocalypse" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker declares herself a wife and looks back at the girl she used to be. Her tone is clipped and…
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Resurrection
In "Resurrection," a short poem by Emily Dickinson, two lovers meet again after a long parting, standing before the judgment-seat of God. Stripped of flesh yet…
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Love’s Baptism
In Love's Baptism, a poem by Emily Dickinson, a young woman declares that the name given to her at a country church font no longer belongs to her. She sets it…
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In Vain
In Vain by Emily Dickinson is a short poem of impossible love, where a speaker insists she cannot live, die or rise to heaven beside the one she adores. Each…
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With a Flower
"With a Flower" is a short poem in which a speaker hides inside a bloom, hoping to be worn close to a loved one's heart. In two quiet stanzas, a secret…
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If you were coming in the fall
In "If you were coming in the fall," Emily Dickinson turns the ache of waiting into a poem of five quiet stanzas. A speaker imagines brushing summer aside like…
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Surrender
In "Surrender," Emily Dickinson gives voice to a woman who has already offered everything to her beloved and still hears his doubt. She pleads with him to…
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Suspense
Suspense by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that turns the nearest room into a place of high stakes. Across two compact stanzas, a waiting soul listens for an…
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Mine
"Mine" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker declares possession with escalating, almost defiant force. Each line stakes a claim through images…
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The Mystery of Pain
The Mystery of Pain is a short Emily Dickinson poem that gives suffering a strange, almost abstract face. In just two stanzas, it describes pain as a blank…
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The Book of Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that invites the reader to open a book of brave lives and draw strength from them. Each stanza turns on…