Classic Poetry

Punschlied (Ballade 1803): Vier Elemente, Innig gesellt, Bilden das Leben, Bauen die Welt. Preßt der Zitrone Saftigen Stern, Herb ist des Lebens Innerster Kern.

Enjoy these classic love poems by authors you may know and poets you may be meeting for the first time. The journey begins in beauty, endures trials, and ends with a hint of past wonders. Make this a Valentine's Day treat or a special experience for any day.

This volume of poetry brings together poems throughout history with very special women. The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel. It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself.

Volume four in this series of timeless poetry for moments of reflection and contemplation. The masters of literature brought together on this unique album.

Dame Peggy Ashcroft reads poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, Shakespeare and Chaucer.

The finest voices reading a wonderful selection of poetry accompanied by selected classical music.

Volume three in this series of timeless poetry for moments of reflection and contemplation. The masters of literature brought together on this unique album.

Perhaps England’s greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë’s, they were rather good at that too.

A collection of classic erotic poetry including "The Kiss", "A Woman Waits for Me", and "Between Your Sheets".

A wonderful selection of classic Christmas poetry from G. K. Chesterton, Henry Vaughan, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Tennyson, and many more.

Hollywood Classic presents Songs and Poems of Classic, Volume 2.

John Donne (1572 – 1631) was an English poet, preacher, and a major representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works are notable for their realistic and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires, and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially as compared to those of his contemporaries.

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking visions of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson.

This is Volume 1 of the collection of Hollywood Classic's original songs and poems. This volume features the earliest published material of Mr. Hollywood Classic.

This second volume of poetry for Mother's Day further explores that key relationship with our Mother through the verse of many of our greatest poets. The relationship with our Mother is one of the most powerful many of us will ever feel. It rivals those with our children and partners in a way that both permeates and challenges how and on what terms we live our lives. A woman giving birth is not only bringing life into the World, she is doing so, usually, at great pain to herself.

A wonderful collection of poetry enhanced by classical music. Including "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," "Danse Macabre" and "Goblin Market."

Alec Guinness reads a selection of his favourite poetry including works by Longfellow, Crashaw, and Vaughan.

Perhaps England's greatest literary family. To find one brilliant novelist in a family is extremely rare. But two? Three?

The Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily Jane and Anne, together with their brother Patrick, are famed throughout the world. And amongst their many talents was poetry. Of course, being Brontë's, they were rather good at that too.

Perhaps Poe's most famous work, "The Raven" was first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. Known for its tight rhymes and rhythm and the repetitive response given by the eponymous raven - "nevermore" - the poem focuses on that raven and a forlorn man who is distraught over his lost lover, Lenore.

"Der Rabe" (im englischen Original "The Raven") ist ein erzählendes Gedicht des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe, hier in der deutschen Übersetzung von Carl Theodor Eben und eingesprochen von Kim Jens Witzenleiter. Untermalt mit der Musik von Michael Donner.