| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
|---|
| 1 | Introduction | Michael Schmidt | | 2:48 |
| 2 | From The Prologue - In Middle English | Geoffrey Chaucer read by Richard Bebb | | 2:58 |
| 3 | From The Prologue - A Knight There Was, and That Noble Man - In Modern English | Geoffrey Chaucer read by Philip Madoc | | 3:59 |
| 4 | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? | William Shakespeare read by Alex Jennings | | 1:06 |
| 5 | When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time | William Shakespeare read by Alex Jennings | | 1:00 |
| 6 | When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time | William Shakespeare read by Anton Lesser | | 1:02 |
| 7 | When in Disgrace With Fortune and Men’s Eyes | William Shakespeare read by Anton Lesser | | 1:07 |
| 8 | Death Be Not Proud | John Donne read by Anton Lesser | | 1:23 |
| 9 | The Good Morrow | John Donne read by Tony Britton | | 1:28 |
| 10 | A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | John Donne read by Tony Britton | | 1:58 |
| 11 | From Paradise Lost | John Milton read by Anton Lesser | | 5:18 |
| 12 | Methough I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | John Milton read by Derek Jacobi | | 1:13 |
| 13 | The Final Chorus from Samson Agonistes | John Milton read by Samantha Bond | | 0:51 |
| 14 | To a Lady With the Temple of Fame | Alexander Pope read by John Moffatt | | 0:28 |
| 15 | To T.M. S-E. In His Epistle to Mr. Pope | Alexander Pope read by John Moffatt | | 0:30 |
| 16 | The Tyger | William Blake read by Stephen Critchlow | | 1:41 |
| 17 | The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Innocence | William Blake read by Michael Maloney | | 1:30 |
| 18 | The Chimney Sweeper from Songs of Experience | William Blake read by Stephen Critchlow | | 0:55 |
| 19 | London from Songs of Experience | William Blake read by Simon Russell Beale | | 1:07 |
| 20 | Auld Lang Syne | Robert Burns read by Valerie Lennie | | 1:51 |
| 21 | My Luv’s Like a Red, Red Rose | Robert Burns read by Anton Lesser | | 0:57 |
| 22 | A Man’s a Man for A’ That | Robert Burns read by Jasper Britton | | 2:00 |
| 23 | Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge | William Wordsworth read by Oliver Ford Davies | | 1:05 |
| 24 | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud | William Wordsworth read by Jasper Britton | | 1:20 |
| 25 | From the Prelude: And in the Frosty Season | William Wordsworth read by Oliver Ford Davies | | 2:23 |
| 26 | La belle dame sans merci | John Keats read by Michael Sheen | | 2:13 |
| 27 | Old Meg She Was a Gypsy | John Keats read by Samuel West | | 1:12 |
| 28 | To Sleep | John Keats read by Samuel West | | 1:00 |
| 29 | Wherein Lies Happiness? | John Keats read by Samuel West | | 1:15 |
| 30 | From The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Robert Browning read by Anton Lesser | | 5:44 |
| 31 | From Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | Walt Whitman read by Garrick Hagon | | 6:11 |
| 32 | Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 1:01 |
| 33 | A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 0:44 |
| 34 | A Narrow Fellow in the Grass | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 0:58 |
| 35 | A Poor Torn Heart, a Tattered Heart | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 0:42 |
| 36 | I Dreaded That First Robin, So | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 1:08 |
| 37 | I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain | Emily Dickinson read by Teresa Gallagher | | 0:57 |
| 38 | The Caged Skylark | Gerald Manley Hopkins read by Jeremy Northam | | 1:22 |
| 39 | The Windhover | Gerald Manley Hopkins read by Jeremy Northam | | 1:24 |
| 40 | Pied Beauty | Gerald Manley Hopkins read by Jeremy Northam | | 0:50 |
| 41 | The Sea and the Skylark | Gerald Manley Hopkins read by Jeremy Northam | | 1:20 |
| 42 | The Self-Unseeing | Thomas Hardy read by Bruce Alexander | | 2:09 |
| 43 | Weathers | Thomas Hardy read by Bruce Alexander | | 0:58 |
| 44 | Great Things | Thomas Hardy read by Bruce Alexander | | 1:39 |
| 45 | Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? | Thomas Hardy read by Janet Maw | | 1:55 |
| 46 | Conclusion | Michael Schmidt | | 0:36 |