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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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Christmas on the Off-Trail
"Christmas on the Off-Trail" is a poem about vagabonds far from home at Christmas, haunted by memories of mothers, hearths, and the lives they left behind. The…
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Christmas Day — 1868
"Christmas Day — 1868" by Charles Kingsley opens by asking how the coming Christmas will dawn across the globe — for sailors at sea, explorers in the desert…
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The Antipodes: Christmas at the Cape
"The Antipodes: Christmas at the Cape" by John Runcie paints a sun-drenched South African Christmas set against the familiar holly-and-snow backdrop of the…
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Under the Holly Bough
"Under the Holly Bough" by Charles Mackay is a Christmas poem that calls together the estranged, the grieving, and the loving alike. Across three stanzas…
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Christmas Evergreens
"Christmas Evergreens" is a Victorian poem that captures the warmth of Christmas gatherings as winter nights grow long and cold winds blow outside. Around a…
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A Christmas Antiphone
"A Christmas Antiphone" by Algernon Charles Swinburne unfolds as a solemn, hymn-like address directly to Christ, moving through the mystery of the Nativity…
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Bryngynge in the Bore’s Head
"Bryngynge in the Bore's Head" is one of the oldest known English Christmas carols, capturing the ceremonial procession of a boar's head into a great hall…
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Peace on Earth
"Peace on Earth" opens with the speaker hearing Christmas bells ring out their ancient carol across Christendom — until cannon fire from the Civil War drowns…
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A Meditation for Christmas Day
"A Meditation for Christmas Day" is a devotional poem that calls the soul to pause and reflect on the full weight of Christmas morning. Through four resonant…
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The Christmas Box
"The Christmas Box" is a short comic poem following a boy who eagerly winds through town on Christmas, rattling a collection box as he solicits coins from his…
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Two Christmas Saints
"Two Christmas Saints" is a short Christmas poem in which the speaker recalls the breathless childhood vigil of waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve —…
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Wassail! Wassail!
"Wassail! Wassail!" is a lively celebratory poem evoking the rowdy, ale-filled revelry of medieval England, where knights, monks, and yeomen alike cast off…
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Wassailer’s Song
Wassailer's Song is a boisterous Christmas wassailing poem that captures the spirit of the old English tradition of going door to door singing for drink and…
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At the Sign of the Jolly Jack
"At the Sign of the Jolly Jack" is a Christmas poem that brings to life a rowdy inn on a winter's night, where landlord, guests, and a young man dancing with…
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Within and Without
"Within and Without" by James Russell Lowell sets a blazing Christmas hall against the frozen night outside. While firelight, ivy, and laughter fill the great…
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The True Christmas
"The True Christmas" is a short poem by Henry Vaughan that challenges readers to look past holiday feasting, decoration, and spectacle to find the deeper…
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Get Ivy and Holly
"Get Ivy and Holly" by Thomas Tusser is a brisk, cheerful Tudor poem urging readers to deck their homes with greenery, prepare a festive feast, and honour the…
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The Farmer’s Invitation
"The Farmer's Invitation" is a spirited Christmas poem written in the Dorset dialect, where a farmer urges a friend to bring his fiddle and come celebrate the…
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Alone — With One Fair Star
"Alone — With One Fair Star" is a poem by Mathilde Blind that opens on a solitary figure pacing a darkening winter shore, accompanied only by a single…
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Come Home, My Sailor
"Come Home, My Sailor" is a short poem in which a speaker implores the winter wind to carry a message across the seas to a beloved sailor. Through howling…
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Winter
"Winter" by Robert Southey challenges the familiar image of Old Winter as a hunched, frost-bitten figure trudging alone through sleet and snow. Instead…
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The Coming of Christmas
"The Coming of Christmas" by Lady Lindsay sets the warmth of the Christmas season — wassail, music, feasting, and the greeting of old friends — against a…
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King Arthur’s Waes-Hael
"King Arthur's Waes-Hael" weaves the ancient Anglo-Saxon wassail toast into a devotional Christmas ceremony, where the drinking bowl — shaped like a woman's…
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A Christmas Letter from Australia
"A Christmas Letter from Australia" is a poem that captures the bittersweet ache of spending Christmas under a blazing Southern sun while loved ones gather…
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Christmas
"Christmas" by Rose Terry Cooke unfolds in four lyrical stanzas, each honouring a different face of the season. Father Christmas arrives amid fife and drums to…
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Old Christmas Returned
"Old Christmas Returned" is a jubilant old English poem celebrating the triumphant comeback of the Christmas spirit after years of joyless, miserly neglect…
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Christmas Day
"Christmas Day" by Hartley Coleridge opens with a searching question: was Christ truly born in the depths of winter, when the natural world lay bare and…
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The First Christmas in New England
"The First Christmas in New England" by Hezekiah Butterworth captures the Pilgrims' first Christmas on American shores — a gray, cold December day stripped of…
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Christmas Time
"Christmas Time" by John Clare paints a richly sensory portrait of Christmas in an English rural village, where every cottage hearth glows with welcome and old…
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The Christmas Silence
"The Christmas Silence" is a nativity poem that draws readers into the breathless hush of the stable on Christmas night. Pigeons settle on dusty rafters, oxen…
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The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
"The Cowboys' Christmas Ball" gallops through a raucous Christmas dance held on the Texas frontier, where ranch hands ride into Anson City and the fiddle and…
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The Knighting of the Sirloin
"The Knighting of the Sirloin" retells the popular legend of King Charles II of England, who — after an exhausting Christmas hunt through the snowy Chingford…
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Bells Across the Snows
"Bells Across the Snows" is a Christmas poem that holds joy and sorrow in the same breath, evoking a starlit winter night where the sound of distant bells…
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Minstrels and Maids
"Minstrels and Maids" is a Christmas carol poem by William Morris in which a group of wandering outlanders arrives bearing wine and wondrous news. Against a…
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Church Decking at Christmas
"Church Decking at Christmas" is a Christmas poem by William Wordsworth that mourns the loss of rich religious customs stripped away by overly austere…
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So, Now Is Come Our Joyfulst Feast
"So, Now Is Come Our Joyfulst Feast" is a Christmas poem brimming with the sights and sounds of holiday celebration — ivy-decked rooms, smoking chimneys…
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The Christmas Carol
"The Christmas Carol" by William Wordsworth captures a winter night when minstrels play beneath a moonlit cottage, their music cutting through the freezing air…
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A Christmas Song
"A Christmas Song" by William Cox Bennett is a brief, wind-swept poem in which a speaker pleads with the winter wind to carry a message home to a sailor at…
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The End of the Play
"The End of the Play" by William Makepeace Thackeray opens like a curtain call — an actor removing his mask to reveal a face far from joyful. Written as a…
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Mark Well My Heavy Doleful Tale
"Mark Well My Heavy Doleful Tale" is a comic farewell poem lamenting the close of Christmas on Twelfth Night, when the feasting must end. The speaker mourns…
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A Ballade of Old Loves
"A Ballade of Old Loves" by Carolyn Wells conjures three fleeting visions of women from Christmases past — a laughing maid on a staircase, a costumed reveller…
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Ballade of Christmas Ghosts
"Ballade of Christmas Ghosts" by Andrew Lang conjures the quiet hauntings of Christmas — not supernatural terrors, but the bittersweet ghosts of memory that…
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The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols
"The Newest Thing in Christmas Carols" is a comedic poem that turns a beloved carol on its head, cataloguing the real tribulations of Christmas rather than its…
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Eddi’s Service
"Eddi's Service" is a short poem by Rudyard Kipling in which Eddi, a Saxon priest, rings the bell for a midnight Christmas service — and no one comes. The…
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Lines to Christmas
"Lines to Christmas" is a self-aware, humorous poem that skewers the annual ritual of producing obligatory Christmas verse. Monte Sohn's narrator wryly…
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The Seven Sets of Presents
"The Seven Sets of Presents" is a clever poem that reimagines Shakespeare's "All the World's a Stage" as a comedy of gift-giving, following a man from infancy…
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A Christmas Memory
"A Christmas Memory" by James Whitcomb Riley captures Christmas through the eyes of a small child staying at his aunt's house while his mother is gravely ill…
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A Feel In The Chris’mas-Air
"A Feel In The Chris'mas-Air" captures the bittersweet sensation that creeps in every Christmas season — a nameless ache that sits alongside appetite, energy…
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Das Krist Kindel
"Das Krist Kindel" opens on a solitary December evening, a narrator dozing by a crackling fire while winter prowls outside. Through curling cigar smoke, a…
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Chrismus On The Plantation
"Chrismus On The Plantation" is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar set on a gloomy Christmas Eve when a struggling plantation master tells his formerly enslaved…
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Christmas
"Christmas" by Paul Laurence Dunbar crackles with the energy of a holiday gathering in full swing — fiddles playing, fires roaring, and a table heavy with…
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Chrismus Is A-comin’
"Chrismus Is A-comin'" captures the infectious excitement of Christmas building through winter frost and cold nights. Dunbar's speaker — a mother watching her…
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A Christmas Folksong
"A Christmas Folksong" by Paul Laurence Dunbar opens on a mild, snowless Christmas Eve thick with damp air and foreboding. The speaker watches others dance…
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Daddy’s Lost the Job He Had
"Daddy's Lost the Job He Had" is a poem told in the voice of a child just shy of eight years old, whose father has lost his driving job and now earns fifty…
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About the Tide of Christmas
"About the Tide of Christmas" is a romantic poem in which a lovestruck speaker urges his own heart to take courage through the cold and quiet of the Christmas…
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A Pathetic Christmas Poem
"A Pathetic Christmas Poem" delivers a sharp comic twist on the classic Christmas redemption story. A burglar breaks into a grand banker's mansion on a snowy…
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A Rhyme For Christmas
"A Rhyme For Christmas" is a playful poem built around one delightfully impossible challenge: finding a true rhyme for the word "Christmas." The speaker…
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To An Old Fogey
"To An Old Fogey" is a playful comic poem addressed to a balding, portly curmudgeon who insists that Christmas has grown tiresome and outdated. Seaman…
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A Song For Christmas
"A Song For Christmas" by George MacDonald sets death and renewal against each other in six tightly wound stanzas, where bells toll for the buried and larks…
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Christmas, 1884
"Christmas, 1884" is a short Christmas poem in which the speaker confesses a heart empty of seasonal cheer — no joy, no song, loved ones scattered and absent…