The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith | Read by Robin Shuckburgh | The Wednesday Poem

[@rogertemple7193]

Thank You I enjoy watching and listening to these poems. they really are great to hear and you really read them magnificently. Thank You and until you read another great poem have a great week. 🕍⛪⛪🕍

[@carrnil]

Rock on! Right on time, love you fellers.

[@aariley2]

It's amazing how much longer sad poems ar than happy ones.

[@thisismyname3328]

You read wonderfully! I love this poem, it’s so desolate yet beautiful. Thanks!

[@malcolmrichardson3881]

A fine reading of Goldsmith's lament for an agrarian lifeworld, then in the process of being transformed by burgeoning commerce and industry. A somewhat rose-tinted view of 18C rural life, but, as you say, bearing some striking parallels with of our present discontents. Thank you.

[@sansumida]

No 429 in The New Oxford Book of English Verse😊 Poem starts at 1:44 ends at 5:36.

[@Oldnoitall]

So very very fine indeed

[@taloire43]

Most enjoyable but my attention was sometimes distracted by the picture of the offshore drilling rig!

[@sylviabartsch6205]

It's wednesday! The lovely poetry day.

[@DianeHox]

Very apropos for today's situation, rather foreboding.

[@fuzzperoni]

❤

[@aariley2]

Is that a pig-shaped tureen in the background?

[@helenbailey8419]

Or a fish?

[@helenbailey8419]

I like the mirror frame,commented on it a year ago

[@cynthiastogden7000]

Poignant

[@TheLaughLaundry]

I had to stop listening cause this is way too somber. Last week was a real treat. You moved from a comfortable spot with the awesome doggie Gizmo making me smile and laugh & saddened me with a heavy feeling. Oh, and why do you have that painting of a drilling platform on your wall? hardly what i expect to see on the wall of an English country gentleman. I do love the idea of a Wednesday poem. Cheer me up, OK? Love from Kathleen in California

[@aariley2]

Your reading, as usual, is impeccably lovely, but I strongly dislike this poem. Ruined my night.