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The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta

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17:31

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 3:...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/08/11

A Child's History of England by Dickens Chapter 3

16:39

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Part...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/08/02

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens. Part II. Read by Pratt Datta

30:41

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens -...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/07/27

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens (1853). Courtesy of Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/699/699-h/699-h.htm#startoftext

13:30

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde Part II

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/07/04

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/902/902-h/902-h.htm#page1

16:55

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde Part I

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/07/04

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/902/902-h/902-h.htm#page1

01:43

To a Reason by Rimbaud

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/03/16

To a Reason BY ARTHUR RIMBAUD TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY JOHN ASHBERY A tap of your finger on the drum releases all sounds and initiates the new harmony. A step of yours is the conscription of the new men and their marching orders. You look away: the new love! You look back,—the new love! “Change our fates, shoot down the plagues, beginning with time,” the children sing to you. “Build wherever you can the substance of our fortunes and our wishes,” they beg you.

02:51

A Verse for Napoleon by Pratim Datta

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/03/15

A Verse for Napoleon Pratim Datta On a day, year 69, 17 hundred, Was born a petit Corsican, whom the world would dread! 20 years later when La Bastille fell, Napoleon's star rose, First Republic served him well! A general at 24, bless the siege of Toulon, Robespierre’s blessing against the grand coalition; Leading the charge of armée d’Italy, Won Piedmont, Castilloni, and Rivoli! Austrians did fold, to the Habsburgs he turned; Léoben, Campo Formio, Bavaria burned. Enveloping his enemies in sixty

06:06

Auguries of Innocence Part II by William Blake (Read...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/03/14

Auguries of Innocence (continued) William Blake He who shall train the Horse to War Shall never pass the Polar Bar The Beggars Dog & Widows Cat Feed them & thou wilt grow fat The Gnat that sings his Summers Song Poison gets from Slanders tongue The poison of the Snake & Newt Is the sweat of Envys Foot The poison of the Honey Bee Is the Artists Jealousy The Princes Robes & Beggars Rags Are Toadstools on the Misers Bags A Truth thats told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent It is

03:08

Auguries of Innocence Part I by William Blake (Read...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/03/13

Auguries of Innocence In two Parts: Part ! BY WILLIAM BLAKE To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage A Dove house filld with Doves & Pigeons Shudders Hell thr' all its regions A dog starvd at his Masters Gate Predicts the ruin of the State A Horse misusd upon the Road Calls to Heaven for Human blood Each outcry of the hunted Hare A fibre from the

02:57

The River's Tale by Rudyard Kipling (read to you by...

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2020/03/12

The River's Tale Prehistoric Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew-- (Twenty bridges or twenty-two)-- Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young and the Thames was old, And this is the tale that the River told:-- "I WALK my beat before London Town, Five hour up and seven down. Up I go till I end my run At Tide-end-town, which is Teddington. Down I come with the mud in my hands And plaster it over the Maplin Sands. But I'd have you know that these waters of mine Were once a branch of the

03:35

A Death Bed by Kipling

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/25

A Death-Bed By Rudyard Kipling 1918 "This is the State above the Law. The State exists for the State alone." [This is a gland at the back of the jaw, And an answering lump by the collar-bone.] Some die shouting in gas or fire; Some die silent, by shell and shot. Some die desperate, caught on the wire; Some die suddenly. This will not. "Regis suprema voluntas Lex" [It will follow the regular course of—throats.] Some die pinned by the broken decks,

02:25

The Trade by Kipling

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/25

"The Trade" By Rudyard Kipling 1914-18 (Sea Warfare) They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In little boxes made of tin. Sometimes they stalk the Zeppelin, Sometimes they learn where mines are laid, Or where the Baltic ice is thin. That is the custom of "The Trade." Few prize-courts sit upon their claims. They seldom tow their targets in. They follow certain secret aims Down

02:45

For All We Have and Are by Kipling

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/25

"For All We Have And Are" By Rudyard Kipling 1914 For all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and stone! Though all we knew depart, The old Commandments stand:— "In courage kept your heart, In strength lift up your hand." Once more we hear the word That sickened earth of old:— "No law except

04:26

Ode to a Grecian Urn by Keats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/25

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What

02:19

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Yeats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/19

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by William Butler Yeats I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The

01:05

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by Yeats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/19

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

01:05

Death by Yeats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/19

Death by William Butler Yeats Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again, A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone – Man has created death.

02:01

Leda and the Swan by Yeats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/19

Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill, He holds her helpless breast upon his breast. How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs? And how can body, laid in that white rush, But feel the strange heart beating where it lies? A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And

02:50

The Second Coming by Yeats

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/18

The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming

01:36

To A Reason by Arthur Rimbaud

The Tory: Perspectives and Poems: Dr Pratt Datta ·

2018/07/01

To a Reason By Arthur Rimbaud Translated from French by John Ashbery A tap of your finger on the drum releases all sounds and initiates the new harmony. A step of yours is the conscription of the new men and their marching orders. You look away: the new love! You look back,—the new love! “Change our fates, shoot down the plagues, beginning with time,” the children sing to you. “Build wherever you can the substance of our fortunes and our wishes,” they beg you. Arriving from always, you’ll go

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