Poems
I’m a big fan of poetry and I coordinate a lot of poetry projects over at LibriVox.org.
I also end up reading quite a few poems and this is what I have recorded thus far. 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)








Hi Annie,
I really like your Librivox reading of ‘The Raven’ by Poe - it’s very even and calm. It lets the words in the poem do all the work. It is such an easy poem to “ham up,” and your refusal to do so demonstrates a real understanding of its power. I’m going to send it (from Manchester, England) to my friend Kate who’s in Japan as part of a Halloween CD I’m making.
Thanks so much for your reading!
David
October 16th, 2007 at 6:09 pmHi Annie,
Would you please read some poems of Lord Byron and Emily Brontë,or “the White Birds” by W.B.Yeats if you have time?I do believe you can read them perfectly.
Best wishes.
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 am