Best In Your Ear Shakespeare Podcasts (2025)

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256 Fear and Warning 53:42

28d ago53:42

53:42

Julius Caesar – Act I scene 3 Cassius finds inspiration in a violent storm, and another ally in the night.

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255 Beware 1:31:16

2M ago1:31:16

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Julius Caesar – Act I scene 2 Caesar is given a warning, Brutus has private thoughts, Cassius airs some grievances, and Casca tells us what happened.

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254 Cruel Men of Rome 39:32

3M ago39:32

39:32

Julius Caesar – Act I scene 1 A group of citizens are scolded for celebrating Caesar’s triumph.By Ehren Ziegler, William Shakespeare

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253 Lend Me Your Ears 1:01:00

4M ago1:01:00

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Julius Caesar – Introduction Brief history of Julius Caesar, events leading up to the beginning of the play, our ways and means of analyzing, and some ideas about why this play feels so weird.

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252 Much Ado About Conclusions 1:13:45

7M ago1:13:45

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act V scene 2, 3, 4 Benedick is boastful, Beatrice too witty, Hero too innocent, Claudio’s a fool, yet love finds a way to work it all out.

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251 Much Ado About Conviction 1:31:30

8M ago1:31:30

1:31:30

Much Ado About Nothing – Act V scene 1 Claudio and the Prince are confronted with opposition and catastrophe.

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250 Much Ado About Interrogation 39:24

9M ago39:24

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act IV scene 2 Dogberry goes about to examine the malefactors in the eftest way.

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249 Much Ado About Revenge 1:28:06

10M ago1:28:06

1:28:06

Much Ado About Nothing – Act IV scene 1 The worst wedding, two confessions of love, and a promise of death.

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248 Much Ado About Anticipation 39:27

11M ago39:27

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act III, scene 4, 5 Hero prepares for her wedding, Beatrice isn’t feeling so hot, Dogberry and Verges have it handled.

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247 Much Ado About Vigitance 59:32

12M ago59:32

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act III, scene 3 It’s the night before the wedding as the watch receive their instructions and try to keep the peace.

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246 Much Ado About Perception 53:19

1y ago53:19

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act III, scene 2 Benedick undergoes a transformation, and Don John sows doubt.

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245 Much Ado About Noting 49:31

1y ago49:31

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act III, scene 1 Beatrice hears some unexpected gossip.

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244 Much Ado About Deception 1:29:12

1y ago1:29:12

1:29:12

Much Ado About Nothing – Act II, scene 2, 3 Don John finds another way, while Benedick is made sport of.

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243 Much Ado About Masks 1:38:29

1+ y ago1:38:29

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act II, scene 1 In the midst of a clever dance we encounter witty word play, misconceptions, and a new challenge.

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Season Finale: New Year's Eve Message and 2024 Prayer 4:56

1+ y ago4:56

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Season Finale: New Year's Eve message and 2024 Prayer Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! Thank you for your time and attention. It's a blessing you've stopped to observe and listen. ADDITIONAL INFO: @thebaldheadedpoet | Linktree…

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Psalm 23 (ESV) 1:15

1+ y ago1:15

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Psalm 23 (ESV) The Lord Is My Shepherd A Psalm of David. 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. 3 He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for y…

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242 Much Ado About Plots 44:15

1+ y ago44:15

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act I, scene 2, 3 Leonato is misinformed by his brother, and Don John wants to bite.

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Still I Rise - Maya Angelou 2:15

1+ y ago2:15

2:15

Still I Rise, By Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just …

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? - William Shakespeare 1:13

1+ y ago1:13

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? By William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from…

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Christmas Series #3 Baby Jesus, Child Of Love - Marcia A. Newton 1:23

1+ y ago1:23

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Baby Jesus, Child Of Love, By Marcia A. Newton Baby Jesus, child of love, born of Mary, child of God, born this night to bring us light, God with us, Emmanuel. Bells ring out, a child is born. Angels sing out, "Christ the Lord!" All on Earth rejoice His birth, a Child of love, the Promised One. Hope was born this silent night, dark no more, eternal…

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Christmas Series #2 Matthew 2:1-12 The Magi Visit the Messiah (NIV) 2:04

1+ y ago2:04

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The Magi Visit the Messiah Matthew 2:1-12 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship Him.” 3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem wi…

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Christmas Series #1 Luke 2:1-20 - The Birth of Jesus Christ, The Shepherds and the Angels (ESV) 2:51

1+ y ago2:51

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Luke 2 - The Birth of Jesus Christ, The Shepherds and the Angels 1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazar…

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The Paradoxical Commandments - Kent M. Keith 1:37

1+ y ago1:37

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The Paradoxical Commandments, By Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyw…

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241 Much Ado About Arrivals 1:18:15

1+ y ago1:18:15

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Much Ado About Nothing – Act I, scene 1 Don Pedro, the Prince of Aragon, has come to visit the house of Leonato, governor of Messina. A cast of colorful characters is introduced.By William Shakespeare and Ehren Ziegler

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Black Friday Poem 2:41

1+ y ago2:41

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The day following Thanksgiving— commonly referred to as Black Friday— has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States. National chain stores traditionally offer limited money-saving specials on a wide variety of goods in an effort to lure shoppers into stores while offering similar deals online. (www.britannica.com) Poe…

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Christopher Marlowe 1:48

1+ y ago1:48

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, By: Christopher Marlowe Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I w…

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Thanksgiving Day - Thomas Frederick Young 1:33

1+ y ago1:33

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Thanksgiving Day, By Thomas Frederick Young God of the harvest, once again Our joyful tones we raise, For all Thy goodness, day by day, We give Thee thankful praise. With blessings rich, from fertile field, And gifts from fruitful tree, We wish, this day, our thanks to yield With earnest hearts, to Thee. We plough'd the ground, we sow'd the seed, B…

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Good Timber - Douglas Malloch 1:39

1+ y ago1:39

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Good Timber, By Douglas Malloch The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open plain And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scrubby thing. The man who never had to toil To gain and farm his patch of soil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light…

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Thanksgiving - Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2:21

1+ y ago2:21

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Thanksgiving, By, Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We rarely offer praises. We sigh for some supreme delight To crown our lives with splendor, And quite ignore our daily store Of pleasures sweet and tender. Our cares are bold and push their way Upon our thought and f…

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Prose and Cons Talk: Spank Your Kids 10:58

1+ y ago10:58

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For years, people have debated whether punishing children works, whether it corrects their behaviors without having any negative long-term consequences. Spanking is one such form of discipline. Does spanking children work? (www.psychologytoday.com) Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pin…

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The Full Serenity Prayer - Reinhold Niebuhr 0:59

1+ y ago0:59

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The Serenity Prayer, By Reinhold Niebuhr God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, Th…

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To Be In Love - Gwendolyn Brooks 1:28

1+ y ago1:28

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To Be In Love, By Gwendolyn Brooks To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. You look at things Through his eyes. A cardinal is red. A sky is blue. Suddenly you know he knows too. He is not there but You know you are tasting together The winter, or a light spring weather. His hand to take your hand is ove…

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240 Much Ado 38:59

1+ y ago38:59

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Much Ado About Nothing – Into An introduction to our series on Much Ado About Nothing where we talk history, structure, and the building blocks of comedy.By William Shakespeare and Ehren Ziegler

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Surviving - Amanda Gorman 1:16

1+ y ago1:16

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Surviving, By Amanda Gorman These words need not be red for our blood to run through them. When tragedy threatens to end us, we are flooded by what is felt; Our faces fluctuating, warped like an acre passing Seasons. Perhaps the years are plotted & planned Just like seeds in a fresh-plowed field. When we dream, we act only with instinct. We might n…

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Domestic Violence Awareness Month Message 4:36

1+ y ago4:36

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Domestic violence takes place in our nation every minute of every day, occurring just about every 15 seconds. Most Americans don’t realize just how real domestic violence is and how many lives are affected by it. Most of these cases are left behind closed doors. That’s why the Domestic Violence Awareness Month was introduced to not only educate and…

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Prose and Cons Talk: Hearts grown dull, lovers of the world. 8:47

1+ y ago8:47

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Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! Thank you for your time…

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When the Year Grows Old - Edna St. Vincent Millay 1:18

1+ y ago1:18

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When the Year Grows Old, By Edna St. Vincent Millay I cannot but remember When the year grows old— October—November— How she disliked the cold! She used to watch the swallows Go down across the sky, And turn from the window With a little sharp sigh. And often when the brown leaves Were brittle on the ground, And the wind in the chimney Made a melan…

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Revised Version of Do not go gentle into that good night - Dylan Thomas 1:40

1+ y ago1:40

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Revised Version of Do not go gentle into that good night. By: Dylan Thomas Please go gentle into that good night, Old age shouldn’t burn and rave at close of day; Don’t rage, why rage against the dying of the light? Wise men at their end look forward to that heavenly light, Their lives will no longer be filled with pain and strife, They will go gen…

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Trees - Joyce Kilmer 1:00

1+ y ago1:00

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Trees, By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. P…

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Prose and Cons Talk: Halloween Exposed 11:03

1+ y ago11:03

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I walked down Melbourne Street to hear the bands play ghoulish melodies. Someone yelled, "I've witnessed a murder." I saw him lurking around the corner, and instantly noticed his sideburns. His cape was black and wrinkled and blood was on his T-Shirt. People ran to see the crime scene, but the man disappeared. They found body parts in a brazier. It…

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Prose and Cons Talk: A Plea to Steve Harvey 5:14

1+ y ago5:14

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Prose and Cons Talk: A Plea to Steve Harvey Emmy® Award-winning entertainer, radio personality, motivational speaker, New York Times best-selling author, businessman, and philanthropist. From a young age Steve Harvey knew that he wanted to be on TV. He held fast to his dream, against all odds for a stuttering African American boy in the 1960s. His …

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A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns 1:06

1+ y ago1:06

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A Red, Red Rose, By Robert Burns O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi’ the sun; I will…

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Scrub Daddy Poem 3:04

1+ y ago3:04

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The Original Scrub Daddy is made from a unique material called FlexTexture® made of a polymer which changes texture – firm in cold water and soft in warm water. Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! Thank you for your time and attention. It's a blessing you've stopped …

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See It Through - Edgar Albert Guest 1:19

1+ y ago1:19

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See It Through, By Edgar Albert Guest When you’re up against a trouble, Meet it squarely, face to face; Lift your chin and set your shoulders, Plant your feet and take a brace. When it’s vain to try to dodge it, Do the best that you can do; You may fail, but you may conquer, See it through! Black may be the clouds about you And your future may seem…

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The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost 1:15

1+ y ago1:15

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The Road Not Taken, By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that t…

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Prose and Cons Talk: False Prophets, False Prophetess and Sarah Jakes Roberts 12:47

1+ y ago12:47

12:47

A prayer cloth is just a piece of linen, Anointing oil won't heal you if you're not a Christian, A word from heaven could be from a demon, Those ministries don't deserve your tithes and offerings, Stop giving away your hard earned money! They're thieves and you're their ATM machines, Making a lucrative business off of False Prophecies. You gamble a…

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Prose and Cons Talk: Power Lines and Electromagnetic Fields 4:21

1+ y ago4:21

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Very little is said about the subjects; it's under wraps like covid, yet the data isn't bogus. A reason why people live off the grid, or away from the community. What if there were a vaccine that defended us from energy? Since technology is determining our mortality. God will be the light in the heavenly city. Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -P…

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Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein 1:00

1+ y ago1:00

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Where the Sidewalk Ends, By Shel Silverstein There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street wi…

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If - Rudyard Kipling 2:08

1+ y ago2:08

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If, By: Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are 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 deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look …

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Love After Love - Derek Walcott 1:05

1+ y ago1:05

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Love After Love, By Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, And say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved yo…

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