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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…
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To fight aloud is very brave
"To fight aloud is very brave" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that honors the battles no one witnesses. Instead of banners and cheering crowds, it turns to…
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The Lonely House
In The Lonely House, Emily Dickinson's short poem, a narrator eyes isolated houses that a robber would love. Two burglars creep toward a portico, one holding…
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Along the Potomac
Along the Potomac is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that begins with a childhood memory of a woman's death. Years later, her only son goes up from the…
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It was too late for man
"It was too late for man" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that you can read online in about a minute. In two compact stanzas, a speaker faces a moment when…
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Presentiment is that long shadow
"Presentiment is that long shadow" is a four-line poem by Emily Dickinson that turns an ordinary evening into a quiet warning. A shadow stretches across the…
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The Wife
In "The Wife," a short poem by Emily Dickinson, a young woman sets aside the playthings of her girlhood to take up the "honorable work" of being a wife. The…
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Proof
"Proof" is a short poem in which a lover answers a doubting heart with three quiet, daring claims. The speaker insists that love only began to be real once it…
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Bequest
Bequest, a short poem by Emily Dickinson, turns a loved one's death into an inheritance of two strange gifts. The speaker is left a love so immense that even a…
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Belshazzar had a letter
"Belshazzar had a letter" is a compact poem that turns the biblical feast of King Belshazzar into a riddle about conscience. In just eight lines, a king…
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Whether my bark went down at sea
"Whether my bark went down at sea" is a short poem in which a speaker watches the bay for a vessel that may be lost. Was it wrecked by gales, or carried to…
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Dawn
"Dawn" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that captures the quiet moment when night gives way to sunrise. As the sky brightens close enough to touch, the…
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The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487)
"The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman" is a short poem in which Emily Dickinson imagines Christ's journey to Earth on a bitterly cold day. The speaker…
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A brief, but patient illness –
"A brief, but patient illness" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a death into a small woodland funeral. A swift illness passes, and by morning a…
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A charm invests a face
"A charm invests a face" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson about a veiled lady who hesitates at the edge of a meeting. A glimpse through her mesh gives her an…
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A chilly Peace infests the Grass
"A chilly Peace infests the Grass" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a quiet patch of ground into something unsettling. A cold stillness settles…
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A clock stopped—not the mantel’s
"A clock stopped—not the mantel's" is an Emily Dickinson poem that watches a life end through the image of a failing timepiece. A puppet-like figure freezes…
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A Cloud withdrew from the Sky
"A Cloud withdrew from the Sky" is a short poem in which a speaker watches a glorious cloud and its attendants vanish for good. Regret hangs over every line…
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A Coffin — is a small Domain,
"A Coffin — is a small Domain" is a short poem that sets the smallest of spaces against the largest of ideas. In three compact stanzas, Emily Dickinson's…
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A Counterfeit — a Plated Person —
"A Counterfeit — a Plated Person —" is a short poem in which Emily Dickinson refuses to live as a fake, whatever flaws may lie beneath her nature. In just a…
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A curious Cloud surprised the Sky,
"A curious Cloud surprised the Sky" is a short poem that turns an ordinary sky into a small drama. A strange, antlered cloud drifts in against a sheet of blue…
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Above Oblivion’s Tide there is a Pier
"Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier" is a compact poem that imagines a lone refuge rising over the waters of forgetting. Only an unnamed "Few" reach it, and…
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Abraham to kill him—
"Abraham to kill him—" is a short poem that retells the biblical sacrifice of Isaac with dry, startling wit. An aged Abraham is told to kill his son, the boy…
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Absence disembodies—so does Death
"Absence disembodies—so does Death" is a compact Emily Dickinson poem that weighs two kinds of vanishing against each other. A loved one's absence and the…
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Absent Place—an April Day
"Absent Place—an April Day" is a brief Emily Dickinson poem that sets blooming daffodils against the ache of those who cannot see them. In just two stanzas…
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A darting fear—a pomp—a tear
"A darting fear—a pomp—a tear" is a four-line poem that compresses a whole emotional arc into a single breath. Fear flickers, ceremony passes, a tear falls…
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A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!
"A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!" is a short poem that turns an ordinary morning into a battlefield. The speaker cries out for help, then asks a passer-by for…
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A Death blow is a Life blow to Some
"A Death blow is a Life blow to Some" is a short poem that turns a familiar idea on its head in just four lines. Emily Dickinson imagines people who never…
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A Deed knocks first at Thought
"A Deed knocks first at Thought" is a short poem that traces how an action takes shape inside the mind. Emily Dickinson pictures a deed knocking at the door of…
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A Dew sufficed itself—
"A Dew sufficed itself—" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that follows a single dewdrop on a leaf at dawn. Content and quietly proud, the Dew feels the…
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A Diamond on the Hand
A Diamond on the Hand is a compact Emily Dickinson poem that turns a familiar jewel into a quiet study of desire. Once a gem sits on a hand, custom dulls its…
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A Dimple in the Tomb
"A Dimple in the Tomb" is a poem by Emily Dickinson that fits an entire meditation on death into just nine words. A single small, tender mark, a dimple, enters…
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A Door just opened on a street
"A Door just opened on a street" is a short Emily Dickinson poem about a lost passerby who glimpses warmth, wealth and company for a single instant. A door…
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A doubt if it be Us
"A Doubt If It Be Us" is a poem by Emily Dickinson that follows the mind in the first shock of anguish. In just eight lines, a staggering speaker finds that…
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Adrift! A little boat adrift!
"Adrift! A little boat adrift!" is a short poem that follows a small vessel lost on the water as night falls. Emily Dickinson sets a cry for guidance against…
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A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork
"A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork" is a short poem that turns a simple January fly into a spark of intoxicating memory. A speaker is sent reeling by Jamaicas of…
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Advance is Life’s condition
"Advance is Life's condition" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that treats death as a relay rather than a final stop. In two compact stanzas, the speaker…
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A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink
"A Dying Tiger—moaned for Drink" is a short poem in which a speaker crosses the desert sand to find water for a dying tiger. The speaker catches a few drops…
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A face devoid of love or grace
"A face devoid of love or grace" is a six-line poem in which Emily Dickinson sketches a portrait in stark, chilling strokes. The speaker studies a hateful…
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A faded Boy—in sallow Clothes
"A faded Boy—in sallow Clothes" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that follows a pale, threadbare cowherd driving his lonesome cow toward the pastures of…
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A feather from the Whippoorwill
A Feather from the Whippoorwill is a compact poem that turns a single bird's song into a riddle of sunrise galleries and spring operas. Emily Dickinson piles…
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A Field of Stubble, lying sere
"A Field of Stubble, lying sere" is a short poem that pictures a harvested New England field under a second sun, its crop already gathered and its stubble left…
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A first Mute Coming
"A first Mute Coming" is a compact Emily Dickinson poem that moves between silence and celebration. A stranger's house receives a quiet arrival, a fair…
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A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot
"A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot" is a poem by Emily Dickinson that fits a whole world into four short lines. It looks at a delicate…
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After a hundred years
"After a hundred years" is a short poem about a place where agony once played out and is now forgotten. Emily Dickinson pictures a still, overgrown spot where…
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After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside—
In "After all Birds have been investigated and laid aside," Emily Dickinson turns to the little bluebird as nature's most faithful voice. This short poem…
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes" is a short poem that captures the strange stillness after devastating loss. Nerves sit like tombs, the stiff heart…
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After the Sun comes out
"After the Sun Comes Out" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that captures the moment morning rewrites the world. Wagons hurry about like messengers, and…
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A full fed Rose on meals of Tint
"A full fed Rose on meals of Tint" is a poem in which a rose, nourished on color and sunlight, becomes a dinner for a passing bee. In just a few lines, Emily…
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Again—his voice is at the door
"Again—his voice is at the door" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that captures the hush of a long-awaited visit. A woman hears a beloved voice, picks a flower…
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A great Hope fell
"A great Hope fell" is a short poem in which Emily Dickinson describes a collapse so silent that no one hears it. The ruin happens within, a cunning wreck that…
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A happy lip—breaks sudden
"A happy lip—breaks sudden" is a short poem that sets two kinds of smiles side by side. One breaks open without warning, quick and unplanned. The other is worn…
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Ah, Moon—and Star!
"Ah, Moon—and Star!" is a short poem in which a speaker gazes at the distant night sky and boldly declares that no firmament could stop her. She imagines…
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Ah, Necromancy Sweet!
In "Ah, Necromancy Sweet!", a speaker calls out to an learned wizard and begs to be taught his dark art. The request is strange and unsettling: the speaker…
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A House upon the Height
"A House upon the Height" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a lonely hilltop house into a riddle. No wagon ever reached it, no peddler approached…
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Ah, Teneriffe!
"Ah, Teneriffe!" is a short poem in which Emily Dickinson turns a distant mountain into a silent monarch at the close of day. Sunset reviews her sapphire…
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Air has no Residence, no Neighbor
"Air has no Residence, no Neighbor" is a short poem in which Emily Dickinson addresses the air itself, a presence with no home, no door and no fear of anyone…
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The Power of the Dog
"The Power of the Dog" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling that questions why humans willingly open themselves to the grief that comes from loving a dog. With…
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Mother to Son
"Mother to Son" is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a mother speaks directly to her son about the harsh, unvarnished reality of her life — a staircase…
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a poem by Robert Frost that captures the fleeting beauty of nature's earliest moments — the brief instant when a leaf is still a…
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The Road Not Taken
"The Road Not Taken" opens with a solitary traveler pausing at a fork in an autumn wood, unable to follow both paths at once. Frost captures the quiet tension…