Enjoy! DISCLAIMER: I do not own the rights to any of these clips! I just wanted to put together one long compilation of things I found throughout the web to listen all in one place!
0:00 - I Love Thee 1:13 - Book of the Dead 5:35 - So Will Go No More A Rolling 6:21 - Funeral Blues 7:59 - From the Princess 9:10 - Sonnet 130 10:15 - Romeo and Juliet 12:28 - Dover Beach 14:34 - The Night Manager 19:23 - Farewell To His Magic 20:20 - Hamlet 23:03 - Leda and the Swan 24:09 - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 24:34 - To His Coy Mistress 26:49 - Sonnet 116 27:51 - As I Walked Out One Evening 30:23 - The Red Necklace (a.k.a pure dirty talk) 30:42 - Love After Love 32:03 - Be Yourself 35:38 - May I Feel (a.k.a more dirty talk)
Emily Haught thank you! I’ve been wanting to put the links for each specific piece in the description for so long but haven’t had the time, I’m so glad people have this now
@@mayumiperez6328 I would listen to the book 'The Red Necklace' and (IT TURNED OUT TO BE A GOOD BOOK BTW) I fell asleep and woke up wondering when I fell asleep
Home alone at the apartment, wearing flattering formal wear, drinking tea, and eating a freshly baked cookie while having this on the radio is just heavenly.
I am a lifelong insomniac and have played this video every single night for the last 6 months as I fall asleep. I tried switching it up and going back to music or ASMR and I could not fall asleep. Turned this on and fell asleep within 10 minutes. The next morning I realized that I accidentally trained myself to only fall asleep to Tom's voice. Oh well, could be worse I guess.
It honestly does help, to the point where I fall asleep in the middle of "Book of the Dead" or somewhere near there. The first few times I listened to it, I had never heard anything past "The Night Manager" because I fell asleep so well to his voice.
I've always had trouble sleeping, only a few hours a night if I was lucky. Couple years ago Doctor advised melatonin as I was only getting a couple hours a week instead of a couple hours a night. Yet listening to this put me to sleep without melatonin for the first time in a long time without being completely exhausted.
I wish he could read Harry Potter, or Lord of the Rings, or Song of Ice and Fire... Something long enough to listen for days on end. Also, he's doing an impression of Hugh Laurie reading Roper's lines. I don't even think it's deliberate.
@@justina9742 Saw him in the movie, and had read the book before, but never heard it. Must look it up. i have Octopussy and a dramatisation of Dracula with him as Jonathan Harker.
Seriously though? Hearing Tom Hiddleston remind me that life is worth living and I am worth loving is everything I never knew I needed. (Be Yourself - 32:03)
The best voice in the business....without a doubt. I just can't say enough about him....he leaves me speechless. Just to sit with him and discuss literature would be the treat of a lifetime. He's too precious to defile with any carnal feelings...he is like a knight in shining armour to be loved and adored from afar. #tomhiddleston
Sophomore year college, English Lit 2. May I Feel being played in a classroom of 30 people. Every girl and possibly some of the boys entranced by his voice. It was ✨BEAUTIFUL ✨
Ahhh.... love to hear his voice like this specially when he reads " the book of the dead " and also " romeo & juliet ". it feels like i was part of it.. good job mr. hiddleston
10:15 TOM/LOKI: From 'Romeo and Juliet' Act 5 Scene 3 by William Shakespeare ME: (Sleepily) That's my favorite *Cuddles up next to Tom/Loki as he starts to read to me*
Enjoyed your reading and your unique spin on the classical poets that had me totally engaged. I’m a poet who specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time! What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al
Just an update ✨: I made this video when I was 19 and forgot I had the shrek font. When I was looking through the fonts I was like lol shrek and that was that. I now wish I hadn’t used the shrek font, but the OG video I edited is on a computer at my parents house and this video took an eternity to upload so I unfortunately do not have the spoons to change it. Please forgive the shrek font, I am now a seasoned and very✨ distinguished ✨adult who needs you to know that if I could I would change it 😭 but anyways, I’m so glad this has been enjoyed so much these past couple of years! I truly made it on a whim out of pure teenaged boredom. Much love 🖤✨
i swear i came here for like, the clean stuff, and i saw may i feel in the time stamp list like "oh yeah haha, i remember that" but then i was like "the red necklace?? i don't remember that one??" and as soon as i heard that raspy *_"i"_* MY 2013 TUMBLR BRAIN LIT UP AND I STARTED MOUTHING THE WORDS I'M-
I Love Thee I love thee-I love thee! 'Tis all that I can say;- It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day; The very echo of my heart, The blessing when I pray: I love thee-I love thee! Is all that I can say. I love thee-I love thee! Is ever on my tongue; In all my proudest poesy That chorus still is sung; It is the verdict of my eyes, Amidst the gay and young: I love thee-I love thee! A thousand maids among. I love thee-I love thee! Thy bright hazel glance, The mellow lute upon those lips, Whose tender tones entrance; But most, dear heart of hearts, thy proofs That still these words enhance, I love thee-I love thee! Whatever be thy chance.
Enjoyed your reading of those classical poets that had me totally engaged. I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Ali
Enjoyed your poetry. I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al
Bas Ehrmanns piece is called Desiterata, and this is a weird version of Tom's preformance: it's slowed from the original, echo is added and it didn't use to have the music behind it.
I have to point out that prospero's farewell is not in the slightest from hamlet as written at 19.47. It's from the tempest. Otherwise a fine selection
