England's Favourite Poems Author:William Wordsworth, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, and many more England's Favourite Poems Read by Margaret Howard An anthology of England's favourite poems chosen and read by broadcaster Margaret Howard, with Bernard Palmer and David Bellan. The programme include classic and well-known works interspersed with appropriate piano music. 1 The Listeners Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) 2 Upon Westminster Bridge Wil... more »liam Wordsworth (1770-1850) 3 Ode to Autumn John Keats (1795-1821) 4 Music: Nocturne in E flat major Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) 5 I remember I remember Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 6 How do I love thee? Elisabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 7 Music: Dreaming Robert Schumann (1810-1856) 8 Blow, bugle, blow Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 9 Home thoughts from abroad Robert Browning (1812-1889) 10 Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 11 Pied beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) 12 Music: Butterflies Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) 13 When you are old 14 Sea Fever John Masefield (1878-1967) 15 Do not go gentle Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) 16 The way through the woods Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 17 Music: Little bird Edvard Grieg 18 If Rudyard Kipling 19 Music: Presto agitato Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) from 'Moonlight' Sonata 20 The old vicarage Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) 21 Gus the theatre cat TS Eliot (1888-1965) 22 Music: 'Kitty' waltz Gabriel Fauré 23 Welsh incident Robert Graves (1895-1985) 24 Not waving but drowning Stevie Smith (1902-1971) 25 When I am old Jenny Joseph (b. 1932) 26 What is this life William Henry Davies (1871-1940) 27 I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth 28 Remember me Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-94) 29 Stop all the clocks WH Auden (1907-1973) 30 Adelstrop Edward Thomas (1878-1917) Readers Margaret Howard, Bernard Palmer, David Bellan Music played by Martin Souter« less