536. Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson
b'E Dickinson read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nHope is the Thing with Feathers\\nby Emily Dickinson (1830 \\u2013 1886)\\n\\n"Hope" is the thing with feathers \\u2014\\nThat perches in the soul \\u2014\\nAnd sings the tune without the words \\u2014\\nAnd never stops \\u2014 at all \\u2014\\n\\nAnd sweetest \\u2014 in the Gale \\u2014 is heard \\u2014\\nAnd sore must be the storm \\u2014\\nThat could abash the little Bird\\nThat kept so many warm \\u2014\\n\\nI\'ve heard it in the chillest land \\u2014\\nAnd on the strangest Sea \\u2014\\nYet, never, in Extremity,\\nIt asked a crumb \\u2014 of Me. \\n\\nFirst aired: 18 December 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nTo learn a little more about the poems and poets on Classic Poetry Aloud, join the mailing list.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'