Read by Laura Paton

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How Do I Love Thee? (Browning) (2:53) -- The Song of Solomon: '...Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; ...' (3:20) -- A Birthday (Rossetti) (3:31) -- Romeo and Juliet: Act II Scene 2: O Romeo, Romeo! / Act III Scene 2: Gallop apace... (Shakespeare) (4:09) -- Tosca, S. 69, Tosca, Act II: Vissi d'arte (3:20) -- Attributed letter from Marianna Alcoforado to the Marquis of Chamilly and St Leger (2:17) -- Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay (2:29) -- To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet) (1:30) -- We Two (Kuan Tao-Sheng) (1:31) -- Letter from Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de l'Espinasse to the Comte de Guibert (1:17) -- Psychology: 'Just for a moment both of them stood silent in That leaping light (Mansfield) (2:30) -- Letter from Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murray (1:42) -- Letter from Heloise to Abelard (2:17) -- Wuthering Heights:'My love for Heathcliffe resembles the eternal rocks beneath...' (Emily Bronte) (3:43) -- La bohème, Act I: Si, mi chiamano Mimi (5:23) -- Meeting (Rossetti) (2:51) -- Letter from Claire Clairmont to Lord Byron (2:48) -- If Thou Must Love Me (Browning) (1:35) -- Jane Eyre: 'I had not intended to love him...' (Charlotte Bronte) (4:19) -- Letter from George Sand to Pietro Pagello (4:35) -- Night and Day: 'They brought themselves by these means...' (Woolf) (6:00) -- Song of the Geishas: At Kataushike the river water/ Runs gently, and the plum blossom/ Bursts out laughing... (0:30) -- Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un bel di, vedremo (4:36) -- Conviction IV (Stevie Smith) (0:22) -- Letter from Clara Wieck to Robert Schumann (3:23) -- Ulysses: '...And then I asked him with my eyes and then he asked me would I yes...' (Joyce) (4:41)