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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, 1873
"Christmas, 1873" is a short Christmas poem by George MacDonald that meditates on the tension between childlike wonder and the cold cynicism of adulthood. As…
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A Christmas Carol For 1862
"A Christmas Carol For 1862" is a poem that frames the Christmas story as a desperate plea for salvation in a world gripped by hunger, war, and despair…
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Christmas Prayer
"Christmas Prayer" is a devotional poem in which a speaker lays bare a heart described as cold, poor, and low — humble as a stable carved in rock. The poem's…
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Christmas Meditation
"Christmas Meditation" is a brief devotional poem in which George MacDonald reflects on the paradox of Christ's coming at Christmas and His continuous…
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Christmas Song Of The Old Children
"Christmas Song Of The Old Children" is a Christmas poem in which the aged address the Christ child as "Childhood of Eternity," humbly offering themselves as…
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Christmas-day, 1878
"Christmas-day, 1878" is a meditative poem in which a weary speaker wrestles with the risk of growing numb to Christmas, a day that returns with relentless…
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A Christmas Prayer
"A Christmas Prayer" by George MacDonald opens in the nativity stable, where a cow and an ass gaze with quiet wonder at the Christ child lying in the hay. From…
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Master And Boy
"Master And Boy" is a short poem by George MacDonald in which Father Time discovers a weeping child at his garden gate, shivering alone in the cold. The child…
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Music on Christmas Morning
"Music on Christmas Morning" is a devotional Christmas poem in which the speaker describes how the sound of carol music on a winter's morning lifts her from…
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The Nativity
"The Nativity" by C.S. Lewis is a quiet, devotional poem set in the stable at Bethlehem, where the speaker places himself among the ox, the ass, and the sheep…
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Christmas, 1880
"Christmas, 1880" is a devotional Christmas poem in which George MacDonald meditates on the figure of Christ as the eternal Son who truly knows the human…
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Christmas Day, 1850
"Christmas Day, 1850" is a sonnet in which the speaker wrestles with how to honour a radiant winter day worthy of a great story. He searches through images of…
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I saw a stable, low and very bare
"I Saw a Stable, low and very bare" is a six-line nativity poem that captures the startling mystery of Christ's birth in a single, compressed vision. A lone…
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A Botanical Error
"A Botanical Error" is a playful poem in which Peggy, a young woman skilled in botany, wears a sprig of mistletoe in her hair on Christmas Eve — claiming she…
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A Christmas Carol (Poem)
"A Christmas Carol (Poem)" by Charles Dickens moves through the four seasons, dismissing spring as fickle, summer as fierce, and autumn as grief-laden, before…
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The Gift I Didn’t Get
"The Gift I Didn't Get" is a charming Christmas poem in which the speaker reflects on a pile of holiday gifts from family and friends — yet can't stop thinking…
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A Peripatetic Christmas Gift
"A Peripatetic Christmas Gift" is a humorous Christmas poem about a gift the speaker receives but has no use for. Rather than discard it, she tucks it away and…
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Christmas Eve
"Christmas Eve" by Chester Firkins distills an entire year — and a lifetime — into a single sacred night. The speaker moves through seasons as living emblems…
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Noel: A Ballade for Christmas
"Noel: A Ballade for Christmas" by Carolyn Wells rings in the season with the sound of church bells, children's carols, and the crack of a blazing Yule log…
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Christmas in Cactus Center
"Christmas in Cactus Center" is a humorous poem set in a rough Western frontier town where a pretty schoolteacher has every man thoroughly smitten. When the…
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The House of Hospitalities
"The House of Hospitalities" revisits a place once alive with Christmas carolling, warm fires, and gathered friends — now silent, cobwebbed, and eaten by rust…
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The Seven Ages of the Christmas Turkey
"The Seven Ages of the Christmas Turkey" is a humorous parody poem that reimagines Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech with a festive culinary…
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The Prince of Peace
"The Prince of Peace" is a short devotional poem celebrating the birth of hope and light not as a single event but as a daily renewal found in love, patience…
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Christmas Eve
"Christmas Eve" by Ella Higginson paints a fleeting winter sunset in jewel-bright colours — crimson, purple, opal — as the sun sinks into the sea. The poem's…
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A Christmas Carol (Poem)
"A Christmas Carol" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge opens with the shepherds arriving at the stable, where Mary holds her newborn and sings. As they share their…
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Wartime Christmas
"Wartime Christmas" by Joyce Kilmer finds Christmas meaning not in celebration but in quiet, defiant hope during wartime. The poem opens with kings and…
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A Nativity
"A Nativity" by Rudyard Kipling weaves the milestones of the Christian story — the manger, the Star, the Crucifixion, Easter morning — against the raw grief of…
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Christmas at Sea
"Christmas at Sea" puts readers aboard a storm-battered ship fighting desperately to avoid a rocky coastline on Christmas morning. As the crew tacks all day…
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Christmas Comes Again
"Christmas Comes Again" is a Christmas poem that holds celebration and grief in tense balance. The speaker rallies for festive cheer — clinking glasses…
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Out of Debt
"Out of Debt" by Claude McKay celebrates the quiet joy of a family that has survived a modest Christmas without falling into debt. Told in warm Jamaican…
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Phantasus
"Phantasus" by Arno Holz conjures a tiny, fantastical Christmas world where a gingerbread house twinkles on a sugar-candy mountain, a Christmas tree glows in a…
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The Mystic’s Christmas
"The Mystic's Christmas" is a short poem in which a silent elder monk sits apart while his brothers celebrate Christmas with bells, lights, and song. Puzzled…
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Christmas at Melrose
"Christmas at Melrose" is a Christmas poem by Leslie Pinckney Hill that extends a heartfelt invitation into a warm family home during the holiday season. Stone…
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A Christmas Doll
"A Christmas Doll" is a poem that sets a smiling, rosy doll against the grim reality of the child laborers who made her. A happy child imagines her doll born…
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Speakin’ O’ Christmas
"Speakin' O' Christmas" is a nostalgic poem that conjures the sensory richness of Christmases past — frosty air, tinsel-dressed store windows, cedar wreaths…
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In the Holy Nativity of our Lord
"In the Holy Nativity of our Lord" is a devotional poem in which shepherds call one another to witness a light that outshines the sun itself — the infant…
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Christmastide
"Christmastide" is a short Christmas poem by H. P. Lovecraft that captures the warm glow of a cottage hearth, flickering candles, and starlight shimmering over…
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Christmas in India
"Christmas in India" traces a full Christmas Day through five stark vignettes, from saffron dawn to black night, framed by the ever-present tamarisks. Kipling…
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Christ’s Nativity
"Christ's Nativity" by Henry Vaughan is a devotional poem that opens with a joyful call to waken and celebrate the birth of a King — yet quickly turns inward…
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The Mistletoe Bough
"The Mistletoe Bough" is a haunting poem set in a candlelit castle on Christmas night, where a young bride named Lovell's bride playfully hides during the…
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Christmas Morn
"Christmas Morn" is a jubilant Christmas poem that sweeps across mountains, seas, and snow-covered plains to celebrate the dawn of Christ's birth. Each stanza…
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The Christmas Holly
"The Christmas Holly" is a celebratory Victorian poem by Eliza Cook that sings the praises of the holly plant as a symbol of enduring life and communal joy…
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Ipswich
"Ipswich" by Eugene Field draws readers into a coastal New England town where cool nights carry the mournful refrain of things forever past. Witches weave…
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The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree
"The Ballad of the Fairy Thorn-Tree" is a haunting Irish poem in which a desperate young woman ventures to a fairy thorn-tree on Hallow Eve, calling upon dark…
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Haunted Houses
"Haunted Houses" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that explores how every home where people have lived and died remains inhabited by invisible…
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Antigonish
Antigonish is a short poem by Hughes Mearns that lingers in the mind long after the final line. A speaker repeatedly encounters a man upon the stair — a man…
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The Witch
"The Witch" by C.S. Lewis follows a solitary sorceress hunted through ancient woodland for seven months before her capture and condemnation to the stake. Lewis…
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Goblin Feet
"Goblin Feet" is a short poem by J.R.R. Tolkien that pulls readers down a moonlit fairy lane alive with glowing lanterns, whirring beetles, and the padded feet…
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Hallowe'en in a Suburb
"Hallowe'en in a Suburb" is a poem by H. P. Lovecraft in which a moonlit village transforms into a landscape of creeping cosmic dread. Vampires drift past…
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Song of The Witches
"Song of the Witches," drawn from Shakespeare's Macbeth, is a poem that pulls readers into a midnight ritual as three witches circle a cauldron, hurling…
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As children bid the guest good-night
"As Children Bid the Guest Good-Night" by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that draws a tender parallel between the nightly closing and morning opening of…
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The Bee
"The Bee" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that transforms an ordinary bee into a jewelled, armoured warrior moving through a world of flowers. With…
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May-Flower
"May-Flower" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that captures the delicate arrival of the trailing arbutus, a small wildflower heralding the turn from April's…
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Noel: Christmas Eve 1913
"Noel: Christmas Eve 1913" is a short poem by Robert Bridges in which a solitary speaker walks out on a frosty Christmas Eve and hears distant church bells…
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The Christmas Wreath
"The Christmas Wreath" is a short poem by Anna de Brémont in which a speaker gazes at a holiday wreath and is swept into bittersweet remembrance. The ivy's…
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A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson is a short devotional poem that moves through the hours of Christmas Day — from the joy of morning to the quiet of…
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Ceremonies For Christmas
"Ceremonies For Christmas" by Robert Herrick is a short poem brimming with the sights, sounds, and smells of a traditional Christmas celebration. The household…
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The Wassail Song
The Wassail Song is a traditional English carol you can read free online, tracing the age-old custom of wassailing — groups of neighbours and children…
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It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" is a beloved Christmas poem that opens with angels descending through the night sky, their golden harps carrying a message of…
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O Christmas Tree
"O Christmas Tree" is a classic Christmas poem that celebrates the evergreen tree as a symbol of constancy and joy. Through five lyrical verses, the poem…