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Ririro.com - Poetry
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Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of classic poetry with Ririro.com - Poetry. This podcast offers a curated selection of works from literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and countless other masters. Each episode features carefully chosen poems brought to life through thoughtful narration, allowing you to experience the evocative language, profound themes, and enduring power of poetry in a new and engaging way. Whether you're a seasoned poetry enthusiast or a curious newcomer, Ririro.com - Poetry offers a tranquil and enriching escape into the world of verse. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-poetry--6577576/support.
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A narrow Fellow in the Grass
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" is a short poem that follows a barefoot boy through summer fields, where something slips through the grass like a parted comb. He mistakes a spotted shape for a whip lash drying in the sun, until it wrinkles and vanishes the moment he stoops to grab it. The speaker...
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A cap of lead across the sky
"A Cap of Lead Across the Sky" is a short poem that turns an oncoming thunderstorm into something close to dread. A heavy, leaden lid of cloud presses down, and the watchers below search in vain for the sun's mighty face. A chill rises as though from a mineshaft, and noon sinks into a dark well.…
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A Burdock—clawed my Gown
"A Burdock—clawed my Gown" is a short poem in which a snagged dress becomes a lesson in blame. The speaker admits she wandered too near the Burdock's den, then turns to a bog that spoils her shoe and the splashing walkers it was made to catch. Dickinson's dry humor builds toward minnows, who...
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A Bee his burnished Carriage
"A Bee his burnished Carriage" is a short poem that stages a bee's arrival at a rose as a grand, golden-wheeled visit. The bee drives boldly in, and the rose receives him with frank tranquillity, holding nothing back from his greedy appetite. In just a few lines, Emily Dickinson turns a garden...
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Real
"Real" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that looks hard at the face of suffering and asks what cannot be faked. The speaker admires a look of agony precisely because it is true, since no one can counterfeit convulsion or mimic a throe. In just two stanzas, a single gaze and beads of sweat on a...
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The Hemlock
"The Hemlock" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a single evergreen into a portrait of stubborn endurance. The speaker pictures the tree standing at the edge of the snow, feeding on the gnash of northern winds and savoring cold the way others savor wine. Frost, bareness and austerity...
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Beclouded
Beclouded is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that captures a gloomy winter sky in just eight lines. A single travelling snowflake hesitates over a barn and a rut, unsure whether to fall, while a narrow wind grumbles about being wronged. Dickinson gives the weather a petty, human mood, then turns...
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Psalm of the Day
Psalm of the Day is a short poem in which a speaker follows a mysterious "something" through a summer's morning, noon and night. The feeling is hushed and radiant: an azure depth, a wordless tune, a brightness so startling the speaker claps and then veils her face for fear it will flutter away....
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A little road not made of man
"A little road not made of man" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that invites you down a path no wheel or foot can travel. Only the eye can follow it, while a bee and a butterfly pass along it with ease. The speaker gazes toward a town she cannot name and admits she can only sigh, since no vehicle...
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The Grass
In "The Grass," a short poem to read online, Emily Dickinson looks at a green meadow with playful envy. The grass has little to do but host butterflies, entertain bees, sway to the breeze and wear dew like pearls. Her speaker drifts through a gentle, sunlit mood, watching even the grass's…
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Summer’s Armies
Summer's Armies is a short Emily Dickinson poem that turns the arrival of warm weather into a shimmering military parade. Dreamy butterflies stir, sleepy pools hum an old tune, and baronial bees march out in murmuring platoons. Robins crowd fences like snowflakes, while an orchid greets her old...
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The pedigree of honey
The Pedigree of Honey is a four-line poem that turns a bee's simple errand into a quiet lesson in perspective. While the world fusses over lineage and rank, the bee cares only for the clover in front of him, and in his eyes that humble blossom is as grand as any noble house. With playful wit and…
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New feet within my garden go
"New feet within my garden go" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that watches spring return to a quiet garden. Fresh footsteps and stirring fingers disturb the soil, and a troubadour singing from the elm breaks the speaker's solitude. Children play on the green while the weary sleep beneath it....
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Apotheosis
Apotheosis is a short Emily Dickinson poem that opens with a hushed invitation: "Come slowly, Eden!" A bashful speaker, lips unused to such sweetness, sips jasmine like a fainting bee arriving late at its flower. Over eight compact lines, the bee hums around a chamber, counts its nectars, and...
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The Outlet
The Outlet is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a river speaks directly to the sea, begging to be welcomed. Across four tiny stanzas, the river's voice moves from hopeful question to anxious waiting to bold bargaining, offering brooks gathered from hidden, spotted nooks as a gift. It is a...
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Transplanted
Transplanted by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that follows a small Arctic flower as it wanders down the latitudes, away from the polar hem. Puzzled, it arrives at continents of summer, skies full of sun, and bright crowds of flowers beside birds that speak in foreign tongues. The poem lingers…
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Alter? When the hills do
"Alter? When the hills do" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that answers a lover's doubt with a vow of constancy. The speaker measures her devotion against hills, the sun and the daffodil, asking when such steady things ever change. In just two stanzas, the poem sets quiet certainty against the...
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I taste a liquor never brewed
"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker gets drunk on nature itself. Dew, air and endless summer days replace wine, while bees and butterflies stumble from flower to flower. The mood is giddy and playful, and the speaker refuses to stop even when the...
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I never lost as much but twice
In "I never lost as much but twice," Emily Dickinson turns personal loss into a startling, compact confession. A speaker twice stands as a beggar before the door of God, emptied by grief, then twice finds her store restored by descending angels. Yet the final lines carry a sharp, wry sorrow, as…
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I shall know why when time is over
"I shall know why, when time is over" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that turns a private ache into a vision of heavenly instruction. The speaker imagines Christ explaining every separate anguish in a "fair schoolroom of the sky," where long-held questions finally fall quiet. Then comes a...
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Death is a dialogue between
Death is a dialogue between the spirit and the dust in this compact Emily Dickinson poem, staged as a quiet argument. Death commands the spirit to dissolve, but the spirit politely declines, claiming another trust to keep. Death doubts and presses its case from the ground, while the spirit turns...
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I reason, earth is short
"I reason, earth is short" is a compact Emily Dickinson poem that tests the comfort of logic against the weight of mortality. Across three brief stanzas, the speaker calmly lists life's brevity, absolute anguish, inevitable decay and the hope of a heavenly balance. Each argument ends with the…
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The Funeral
In "The Funeral," Emily Dickinson turns a sharp, sardonic eye on the bustle that surrounds a death. This short poem describes the brief stir each of us can cause only once, the illustrious commotion, and the éclat of the occasion. Her speaker calls it an unknown renown that even a beggar would...
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Two Worlds
Two Worlds is a short poem that sets the steady rhythm of nature beside the weight of human suffering. Emily Dickinson watches mornings bloom into noon, wildflowers kindle in the woods, and brooks chatter on, while a blackbird sings past Calvary. Then a bee grieves for its lost rose as if nothing...
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So bashful when I spied her
"So bashful when I spied her" is a short Emily Dickinson poem that follows a speaker who discovers a shy, blushing creature hidden among her leaflets. Tension builds as the speaker, breathless and helpless, carries her away from her simple haunts. Playful and coy, the poem hints at a stolen...
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The bee is not afraid of me
"The Bee Is Not Afraid of Me" is a short poem in which a speaker walks through a summer wood and is welcomed by everything in it. The bee, the butterfly and the "pretty people" of the woods greet her warmly, while brooks laugh louder and breezes play more wildly at her arrival. Yet the closing...
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A Service of Song
A Service of Song is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker skips the church pew and keeps the Sabbath at home. A bobolink leads the choir, an orchard arches overhead as a dome, and a little sexton sings in place of a tolling bell. God himself becomes the preacher, and his sermon is...
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Why?
"Why?" is a short poem in which a speaker tries to explain the inexplicable pull of nature. A humming bee, a red glow on the hillside and the first light of morning each overwhelm the speaker's will. When strangers ask for reasons, the answers turn from near-silence to a warning, then to a...
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Renunciation
Renunciation is a short Emily Dickinson poem about a single summer day that arrives like a revelation. Two people share a silence so complete that words feel unnecessary, even profane. The sun rises and the flowers bloom as if nothing has changed, while the hours slip away and two faces look back...
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The brain within its groove
"The Brain Within Its Groove" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that pictures the mind running smoothly along a familiar track. Then a single splinter swerves it off course. Dickinson sets that small disruption beside a flood that carves new channels through the hills and wipes out the mills...
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Unreturning
"Unreturning" is a short Emily Dickinson poem about a little boat that toddles out across the bay, drawn away by a gallant, beckoning sea. In just eight lines, a small vessel meets a greedy wave, and the speaker is left to reckon with what the water has taken. Playful rhythm and tender mourning…
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I had no time to hate, because
In "I had no time to hate, because," Emily Dickinson weighs love against enmity in just eight lines. The speaker looks at life's brevity and the grave waiting at the end, and decides that hatred is a task there is no time to finish. Love is not an obvious alternative, yet it becomes a quiet…
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A Book
"A Book" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that follows a reader who devours words as if they were food and drink. Poor and bound to a frail body, he finds his spirit growing strong. Dingy days turn into a dance, and a simple book becomes a gift of wings. In just a few lines, the poem captures…
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The Secret
The Secret, a short poem by Emily Dickinson, sets three quiet stanzas side by side: things that fly, things that stay, and things that rise while resting. Birds, hours, and the bumble-bee pass without mourning, while grief, hills, and eternity stay put. The speaker's voice turns from certainty to...
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Sleep is supposed to be
"Sleep is supposed to be" is a short poem that questions what we think we know about sleep and morning. Emily Dickinson begins with the everyday idea of sleep as the shutting of the eye, then turns it into a grand station lined with silent witnesses. Dawn follows, but not the ordinary kind: the...
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If I shouldn’t be alive
"If I shouldn't be alive" is a short poem in which a speaker imagines their own death and leaves one tender request: when the robins return, give the one in the red cravat a memorial crumb. Two compact stanzas balance gentle humor with quiet mortality. The speaker pictures thanking a friend…
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Emancipation
Emancipation is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that asks whether a person can truly be imprisoned. In four compact stanzas, a bold voice insists that no rack, saw or scimitar can touch the soul, because a second, braver self lives behind the body. The mood is defiant yet calm, and an eagle…
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To know just how he suffered
"To know just how he suffered" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson that circles one aching question: what was it like to die? The speaker imagines a stranger's last hour and asks whether he was patient or afraid, whether the sunshine faced his way, and which name he spoke last. Each question is...
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From the Chrysalis
"From the Chrysalis" is a short poem that places you inside a tightening cocoon, where a restless speaker feels for air and senses a dim capacity for wings. Colors tease through the walls, and the dress she wears begins to chafe. Across three compact stanzas, longing for flight collides with the...
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Safe in their alabaster chambers
"Safe in their alabaster chambers" is a short poem that looks into a tomb where the faithful sleep, shut away from morning and noon. Above them, the breeze plays, the bee hums and the birds sing, but none of it reaches the sleepers. Centuries pass, empires fall, doges surrender and stars wheel...
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Perhaps you’d like to buy a flower
In "Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower," Emily Dickinson turns a simple shop counter into a spring riddle. A speaker offers blooms that can never be sold, only lent, and only until the daffodil unties her yellow bonnet and the bees come for their clover "hock and sherry." The tone is teasing and...
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Apocalypse
"Apocalypse" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker declares herself a wife and looks back at the girl she used to be. Her tone is clipped and defiant, and she calls herself both Czar and woman. She finds comfort in her new state and pain in the old, yet she refuses to compare…
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Resurrection
In "Resurrection," a short poem by Emily Dickinson, two lovers meet again after a long parting, standing before the judgment-seat of God. Stripped of flesh yet radiant, they find heaven in a single shared gaze. Dickinson turns the Last Judgment into a wedding scene, where paradise is the host and...
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Love’s Baptism
In Love's Baptism, a poem by Emily Dickinson, a young woman declares that the name given to her at a country church font no longer belongs to her. She sets it beside her dolls and spools of thread, then steps into a second, conscious baptism of her own choosing. Part farewell to childhood, part...
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In Vain
In Vain by Emily Dickinson is a short poem of impossible love, where a speaker insists she cannot live, die or rise to heaven beside the one she adores. Each stanza closes another door: life, death, even paradise. Dickinson sets broken porcelain, frost and the gaze of Jesus against an unbearable...
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With a Flower
"With a Flower" is a short poem in which a speaker hides inside a bloom, hoping to be worn close to a loved one's heart. In two quiet stanzas, a secret presence rests on a breast, then lingers in a vase as the petals fade. The beloved remains unsuspecting, yet feels a faint ache of loneliness....
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If you were coming in the fall
In "If you were coming in the fall," Emily Dickinson turns the ache of waiting into a poem of five quiet stanzas. A speaker imagines brushing summer aside like a housewife shooing a fly, winding months into balls of thread, and counting centuries on her fingers. Each promise of patience grows…
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Surrender
In "Surrender," Emily Dickinson gives voice to a woman who has already offered everything to her beloved and still hears his doubt. She pleads with him to believe her, insisting that even God would be content with a fraction of such love. Tender, urgent and quietly daring, this short poem asks…
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Suspense
Suspense by Emily Dickinson is a short poem that turns the nearest room into a place of high stakes. Across two compact stanzas, a waiting soul listens for an approaching footstep and the opening of a door, unsure whether a friend will bring happiness or doom. Its mood is hushed and tense, and...
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Mine
"Mine" is a short poem by Emily Dickinson in which a speaker declares possession with escalating, almost defiant force. Each line stakes a claim through images of royal seals, white elections and scarlet prison bars, as if love were a legal charter. The mood is feverish and triumphant, and the...
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Immerse yourself in the timeless beauty of classic poetry with Ririro.com - Poetry. This podcast offers a curated selection of works from literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and countless other masters. Each episode features carefully chosen poems brought to life through thoughtful narration, allowing you to experience the evocative language, profound themes, and enduring power of poetry in a new and engaging way. Whether you're a seasoned poetry enthusiast or a curious newcomer, Ririro.com - Poetry offers a tranquil and enriching escape into the world of verse.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-poetry--6577576/support.
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