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)