by Danny Ballan | Apr 12, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Poetry | Invictus Audio Poetry | Invictus Transcript So heavy is your burden, but so is mine, and so is everyone’s. What you kept telling yourself over the years blaming others for your misfortunes and your so-called failures does not concern me or anyone. All those...
by Danny Ballan | Apr 10, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Poetry | To Adonais Audio Poetry | To Adonais Transcript From to Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley -39-Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep-He hath awakened from the dream of life-‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keepWith phantoms an...
by Danny Ballan | Apr 8, 2020 | Literary Echoes
Hope Is The Thing with Feathers Audio Hope Is The Thing with Feathers Is hope what we need now? No, it’s not hope what we need; it’s not; we need to act and a walking cane as it may be or braces that help us move along, it works only when we stretch our legs and move....
by Danny Ballan | Jun 25, 2019 | Literary Echoes
In today’s Poem of the Day episode from Perfect English with Danny podcast, we will dive deep in the world of Rudyard Kipling and his famous poem ‘If’Support this podcast by becoming a patron on Patreon www.patreon.com/dannyballanPerfect English with...
by Danny Ballan | Jan 15, 2018 | Literary Echoes
If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don’t...
by Danny Ballan | Dec 11, 2017 | Literary Echoes
IntroductionRobert Frost (1874-1963), American poet, who drew his images from the New England countryside and his language from New England speech. Although Frost’s images and voice often seem familiar and old, his observations have an edge of skepticism and irony...
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