A Birthday cover art

A Birthday

A Dozen Red Roses

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

A Birthday

By: Christina Rossetti
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £2.52

Buy Now for £2.52

Summary

 "A Birthday": Christina Rossetti's joyful celebration that her one true love has arrived, read by Jenny Agutter.Public Domain (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Poetry Funny
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
All stars
Most relevant
I've been a fan of Christina Rossetti since childhood, and Jenny Agutter does as lovely a job of reading her poetry as she's ever done of acting. It might have done with being read a little more slowly, and I do wish the man who introduced it had bothered to pronounce Agutter's surname correctly, but it is nonetheless a sweet and romantic poem read very well in the brief time it requires.

Rossetti done well...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The beauty of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s exquisite poem read with sotto voce, lilt and tone.

Exquisite Poem

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.