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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 192: “The First Men In the Moon” by H. G. Wells, An Introduction to Sci-Fi
Episode 191: The “Best of” Series – “Leaf by Niggle” Part 2, Ep. 59
Episode 190: The “Best of” Series – “Leaf by Niggle” by J.R.R. Tolkien, Ep. 58
Episode 189: The “Best of” Series – On Fairy Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien, Ep. 57
Episode 188: Why Translation Matters with Dr. Anne Phillips
Episode 187: “The Man Who Was Thursday” by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. 11-End
Episode 186: “The Man Who Was Thursday” by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. 5-10
Episode 185: "The Man Who Was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton, Intro and Ch. 1-4
Episode 184: The “Best of” Series – In Search of the Austen Adaptation – Pride and Prejudice, Ep. 115
Episode 183: The “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Caitlin Beauchamp, Ep. 30
Episode 182: The Literary Life of Addison and Ella Hornstra
Episode 181: “Kidnapped”, Ch. 19-End
Episode 180: “Kidnapped,” Ch. 7-18
Episode 179: “Kidnapped,” Intro to Robert Louis Stevenson and Ch. 1-6
Episode 178: The “Best of” Series- The Great Divorce, Ch. 11-End, Ep. 50
Episode 177: The “Best of” Series – The Great Divorce, Ch. 7-10, Ep. 49
Episode 176: The “Best of” Series – The Great Divorce, Ch. 2-6, Ep. 48
Episode 175: The “Best of” Series – The Great Divorce, Preface and Ch. 1, Ep. 47
Episode 174: The “Best of” Series – The Importance of Detective Fiction, Ep. 3
Episode 173: The “Best of” Series – Why Pastors Should Read Fiction, Ep. 137
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