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Today’s poem:
The Listeners by Walter De La Mare
‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the Traveller’s head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller’s call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:—
‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
Episode 215: E. M. Forster’s “Howards End”, Ch. 35-End
Episode 214: E. M. Forster’s “Howards End,” Ch. 26-34
Episode 213: E. M. Forster’s “Howards End,” Ch. 17-25
Episode 212: E. M. Forster’s “Howards End”, Ch. 8-16
Episode 211: E. M. Forster’s “Howards End”, Introduction and Ch. 1-7
Episode 210: Reading “Beyond Mere Motherhood” with Cindy Rollins
Episode 209: “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Emily Raible, Ep. 56
Episode 208: “Best of” Series – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acts IV & V, Ep. 121
Episode 207: “Best of” Series – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Ep. 120
Episode 206: “Best of” Series – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Acts I & II, Ep. 119
Episode 205: The “Best of” Series – Intro to Shakespeare and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Ep. 118
Episode 204: A Preview of The Literary Life Season 6
Episode 203: Our Literary Lives of 2023
Episode 202: The Literary Life of Jenn Rogers
Episode 201: “The Mind of the Maker” by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 9-End
Episode 200: The Literary Life LIVE 2024 Reading Challenge
Episode 199: The “Best of” Series – In Search of the Austen Adaptation: Sense and Sensibility, Ep. 138
Episode 198: “The Mind of the Maker” by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 6-8
Episode 197: “The Mind of the Maker” by Dorothy L. Sayers, Ch. 3-5
Episode 196: “The Mind of the Maker” by Dorothy L. Sayers, Intro and Ch. 1-2
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