Poems
I’m a big fan of poetry and I have recorded quite a few poems for LibriVox.org. These are organized alphabetically by author. Click on a title below to listen to my recording.
Bennett, Henry Holcomb
The Flag Goes By (01:50/1.7MB)
Blake, William
Songs of Innocence
The Echoing Green (01:34/1.4MB)
Introduction (01:29/1.4MB)
The Lamb (01:27/1.3MB)
The Shepherd (00:59/0.9MB)
Songs of Experience
A Cradle Song (01:19/1.2MB)
My Pretty Rose Tree (01:02/1.0MB)
The Schoolboy (01:59/1.8MB)
The Tiger (01:34/1.4MB)
To Tirzah (01:26/1.3MB)
The Voice of the Ancient Bard (01:16/1.2MB)
Bodenheim, Maxwell
Poet To His Love (0:44/0.7MB)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Sonnet 43 (01:27/1.3MB)
Burgess, Gelett
The Purple Cow (00:33/0.5MB)
Burr, Amelia Josephine
Lie-Awake Song (01:23/1.3MB)
Carroll, Lewis
Jabberwocky (01:40/1.5MB)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Work Without Hope (01:31/1.4MB)
Dickinson, Emily
I Died For Beauty (01:10/1.1MB)
Donne, John
Death Be Not Proud (01:32/1.4MB)
Song (01:26/1.3MB)
Stay, O Sweet (01:50/1.7MB)
Doolittle, Hilda
Heat (00:49/0.8MB)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Sympathy (01:42/1.6MB)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The Rhodora (01:32/1.4MB)
Frost, Robert
Fire and Ice (00:49/0.8MB)
The Road Not Taken (01:54/1.7MB)
Hardy, Thomas
The Oxen (01:05/1.0MB)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Spring and Fall (01:11/1.1MB)
Inchfawn, Fay
Early Spring (01:18/1.2MB)
Johnson, E. Pauline
The Song My Paddle Sings (02:50/2.6MB)
Johnson, James Weldon
Mother Night (01:27/1.3MB)
O Southland! (01:51/1.7MB)
Jones, Jr., Thomas S.
Sometimes (00:46/0.7MB)
Jonson, Ben
His Excuse For Loving (01:14/1.4MB)
His Supposed Mistress (01:21/1.3MB)
Joyce, James
O, it was out by Donnycarney (00:42/0.7MB)
Kipling, Rudyard
If (02:07/1.9MB)
Lawrence, D. H.
Embankment at Night, Before the War: Outcasts (05:37/5.2MB)
Lear, Edward
The Owl and the Pussycat (01:58/1.8MB)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Christmas Bells (01:58/1.8MB)
Marvell, Andrew
To His Coy Mistress (02:47/2.6MB)
Masters, Edgar Lee
Spoon River Anthology: Ida Frickey (01:33/1.4MB)
Spoon River Anthology: Jennie M’Grew (01:13/1.1MB)
Spoon River Anthology: Lydia Humphrey (01:03/1.0MB)
Spoon River Anthology: Nancy Knapp (01:15/1.2MB)
Spoon River Anthology: Widow McFarlane (01:21/1.2MB)
Maynard, François
Épigramme (01:02/1.0MB)
McGonagall, William
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay (03:05/2.8MB)
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Recuerdo (01:32/1.4MB)
Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs No (01:29/1.4MB)
Singing Woman at the Wood’s Edge, The (02:47/2.6MB)
Moore, Clement C.
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (04:09/3.8MB)
Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah
I Do Not Love Thee (01:44/1.6MB)
Owen, Wilfred
Anthem for Doomed Youth (01:18/1.2MB)
Poe, Edgar Allan
For Annie (04:23/4.0MB)
The Raven (09:01/8.3MB)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Richard Cory (01:16/1.2MB)
Sandburg, Carl
Jazz Fantasia (01:40/1.5MB)
Sassoon, Siegfried
The Road (02:06/1.9MB)
Shakespeare, William
Sonnets 1-10 (11:16/10.3MB)
Sonnet 23 (01:27/1.3MB)
Sonnets 71-80 (11:03/10.1MB)
Sonnet 73 (01:35/1.5MB)
Sonnets 101-110 (11:15/10.3MB)
Sonnet 116 (01:22/1.3MB)
Sonnet 130 (01:31/1.4MB)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Ozymandias of Egypt (01:17/1.2MB)
Spenser, Edmund
One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand (01:21/1.2MB)
So Oft As I Her Beauty Do Behold (01:27/1.3MB)
Teasdale, Sara
May Day (1:00/0.9MB)
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Ring Out, Wild Bells (02:18/2.1MB)
Traditional/Unknown
Apache Wedding Prayer (01:06/1.0MB)
Psalm 131 (00:53/0.8MB)
Psalm 133 (00:50/0.8MB)
Wallace, William Rose
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World (02:22/2.2MB)
Whitman, Walt
Leaves of Grass: Book 23 (35:27/32.4MB)
Leaves of Grass: Book 24 - Autumn Rivulets, Part 1 (48:33/44.4MB)
Leaves of Grass: Book 24 - Autumn Rivulets, Part 2 (44:20/40.5MB)
Miracles (02:00/1.8MB)
A Noiseless Patient Spider (01:35/1.5MB)
O Captain! My Captain! (2:06/1.9MB)
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Art and Heart (02:06/1.9MB)
Williams, William Carlos
Danse Russe (01:06/1.0MB)
Wordsworth, William
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (01:38/1.5MB)
Yeats, William Butler
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (00:46/0.7MB)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (01:17/1.2MB)
The Magi (00:58/0.9MB)
Song of the Wandering Aengus (01:26/1.3MB)
When You Are Old (01:15/1.2MB)
Where My Books Go (00:48/0.8MB)
