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100 British & American Poems

Yeats, Browning, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Lovelace open two doors through original-language song and Chinese re-imagining, with four verified public films and fourteen complete on-site song-and-film sets now returned.

Listen straight through (15 songs)

One after another, back to the top at the end — until you stop it. Tap any song to carry on from there.

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  1. 1When You Are OldThe song does not swear devotion at youth’s brightest moment. It begins beside the fire inMV
  2. 2Meeting at NightGrey sea, long black land, a low half-moon and little waves leaping in fiery rings: BrowniMV
  3. 3When You Are Old · Chinese VersionFirelight, grey hair and a soul still recognized after many years enter a new Chinese melo
  4. 4Lady in the MeadowMeadow, mist and an encounter that resists explanation become a slow cinematic folk ballad
  5. 5A Patient SpiderThread after thread reaches into open space; piano, warm strings and bansuri turn solitude
  6. 6Loveliest of TreesCherry trees bloom because a life is not endless. Acoustic guitar, Celtic harp and warm st
  7. 7Thrush at Winter DuskAmong bare branches, dusk and the cold of an old century, a bird sings a hope the visible
  8. 8Higher Than the SkylarkThe skylark remains unseen while its song keeps rising. Bansuri, sitar and warm strings ma
  9. 9To Strive, To SeekSunset, open water and stars carry the resolve to keep seeking and not yield; age and roug
  10. 10Season of MistsMist, orchards, bees and rivers make ripeness abundant, while parting becomes more than de
  11. 11King of Broken SandRuins, wind and empty sky leave imperial boasting in broken stone; what crosses time is no
  12. 12Gold to Airy Thinness BeatGold is beaten thinner and one foot of the compass travels while remaining joined to its c
  13. 13The World Is Too MuchWhen hours, days and nature are all traded away, the sea still breathes beneath the moon;
  14. 14Stone Walls Cannot Hold the Sky · Chinese VersionStone walls, iron bars and a heavy doorway may enclose the body, but not love or freedom;
  15. 15The Solitary ReaperThe song in the Highland field cannot be understood, yet travels in the heart long after;

How the series is built

W. B. Yeats: A Look Back by the Fire

When You Are Old already has a complete on-site song, film and verified work-level YouTube MV—the first end-to-end path from poem to voice to image.

Robert Browning: A Meeting at Night

Meeting at Night now has a complete on-site song, source-lyric film and exact Suno evidence. Browning's poem remains distinct from the new intro, refrain, bridge and outro, completing the archive's second poetry pathway from shoreline to tap at the pane.

MV stories

Gather Ye Rosebuds

This is not a lightweight command to hurry into romance. It places youth, choice and time inside the same beam of light: roses open and fade, and the real song begins when a person knows life is brief yet chooses to live it attentively.

Had We But World Enough

If the world were endless and time inexhaustible, love could unfold without urgency. Human beings, however, live inside an ending. The music must preserve the poem’s wit while asking whether urgency can honour the other person instead of dressing desire as a beautiful command.

I Will Arise and Go

‘I will arise and go’ is neither a resignation slogan nor a pastoral filter. Yeats writes an inner acoustics: even on an urban roadway, the speaker hears lake water at the shore and recognizes the scale of quiet he needs to recover.

Meeting at Night

Sea, beach, moon, fields, a tap at the pane and two hearts: Browning completes an entire night journey in a very short poem. Its love is carried not by declaration but by someone actually crossing distance to arrive at another light.

Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make

Freedom is not the absence of boundaries. Lovelace sets hard walls against an inward life that refuses confinement, turning love, loyalty and dignity into another kind of space. A contemporary setting must hear both the force of that ideal and the weight of actual restriction.

The Solitary Reaper

A traveller cannot understand the field worker’s words, yet carries her song away. Wordsworth offers not an exotic spectacle but an education in listening: before meaning has been translated, feeling has already taken place.

When You Are Old

The poem does not swear devotion at youth’s brightest moment. It carries the listener to old age beside the fire, then looks back at those who loved beauty and the one who loved the pilgrim soul. This site preserves the route as a complete 4:39 song and film, a Suno work and a verified YouTube link.

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Related journal: Putting a Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry into Today’s Headphones

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