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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.
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Episode 171: “Code of the Woosters,” Part 3, Ch. 10-14
Episode 170: “Code of the Woosters”, Part 2, Ch. 5-9
Episode 169: Intro to P. G. Wodehouse, “Code of the Woosters,” Ch. 1-4
Episode 168: The “Best of” Series – Witches, Wizards, and Magic, Oh My!!, Ep. 104
Episode 167: The “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Timilyn Downey, Ep. 122
Episode 166: Shakespeare’s “Othello,” Acts 4 & 5
Episode 165: Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Act 3
Episode 164: Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Acts 1 & 2
Episode 163: Introduction to Shakespeare’s “Othello”
Episode 162: "Ion" – On Socratic Dialogue and Reading Plato
Episode 161: The Literary Life of Lia Techand
Episode 160: Aristotle’s “Poetics” Part 2
Episode 159: Aristotle's "Poetics", Part 1
Episode 158: Introduction to Aristotle’s “Poetics”
Episode 157: The “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Thomas Banks, Ep. 78
Episode 156: The “Best of” Series – Why Read Fairy Tales, Ep. 70
Episode 155: The “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Wendi Capehart, Ep. 69
Episode 154: The “Best of” Series – What Is the Literary Life?, Ep. 1
Episode 153: Our Literary Lives of 2022
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