Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay
The little hedge-row birds, That peck along the road, regard him not.He travels on, and in his face, his step,His gait, is one expression; every limb,His look and bending figure, all bespeakA man who does not move with pain, but movesWith thought—He is insensibly subduedTo settled quiet: he is one by whomAll effort seems forgotten, one to whomLong patience has such mild composure given,That patience now doth seem a thing, of whichHe hath no need. He is by nature ledTo peace so perfect, that the young beholdWith envy, what the old man hardly feels.—I asked him whither he was bound, and whatThe object of his journey; he replied"Sir! I am going many miles to takeA last leave of my son, a mariner,Who from a sea-fight has been brought to Falmouth,And there is dying in an hospital."

William WORDSWORTH (1770 - 1850)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 2, 2011.

In 1842 the government awarded Wordsworth a civil list pension amounting to £300 a year. With the death in 1843 of Robert Southey, Wordsworth became the Poet Laureate. He initially refused the honour, saying he was too old, but accepted when Prime Minister Robert Peel assured him "you shall have nothing required of you" (he became the only laureate to write no official poetry). When his daughter, Dora, died in 1847, his production of poetry came to a standstill. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Language: English
Read by: LibriVox Volunteers
Book Coordinator: Algy Pug
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01 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by BDD Bryan Davis 00:01:25
02 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by CB Carol Box 00:01:26
03 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by DL David Lawrence 00:01:31
04 Old Man Travelling, Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by FS fshort 00:01:40
05 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by GB Garth Burton 00:01:34
06 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by GC Snapdragon 00:01:28
07 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by GHS Algy Pug 00:01:31
08 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by JCM Jason Mills 00:01:25
09 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by KGB Kalynda 00:01:30
10 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett 00:01:32
11 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by LLB Lewis 00:01:33
12 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by LLW Leonard Wilson 00:01:51
13 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by MG Martin Geeson 00:01:53
14 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by PJW Patrick Wallace 00:01:32
15 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by PMM Peter Makus 00:01:33
16 Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by RN ravenotation 00:01:46

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**errata: the screen displayed in the video is under the wrong author name, which reads Jonathan Swift read William Wordsworth

**errata: a tela exibida no vídeo está com o nome do autor errado, onde se lê Jonathan Swift leia-se William Wordsworth

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