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A Birthday

By: Christina Rossetti
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
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 "A Birthday": Christina Rossetti's joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter.Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Poetry Funny
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I've been a fan of Christina Rossetti since childhood, and Jenny Agutter does as lovely a job of reading her poetry as she's ever done of acting. It might have done with being read a little more slowly, and I do wish the man who introduced it had bothered to pronounce Agutter's surname correctly, but it is nonetheless a sweet and romantic poem read very well in the brief time it requires.

Rossetti done well...

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The beauty of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s exquisite poem read with sotto voce, lilt and tone.

Exquisite Poem

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