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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our Poetry Aloud at Word and Song this week is also about friendship, as it’s featured in what’s called a “conversation poem,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The situation is this. The poet isn’t in good health, so he has to stay behind in a bower of lime trees — not the citrus trees, but what are otherwise called linden trees, while his friends are off …

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Word & Song by Anthony Esolen
Poetry Aloud
Poetry Aloud will help you learn how to read poetry with your ears. Unlike children with bad table manners, poetry is meant to be heard and not just seen. Join Anthony Esolen every other week (or so) as he introduces and discusses a longish poem and then reads it aloud.