All Poems
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Langston Hughes -
Dreams -
Hold fast to dreams ...
Dream Deferred -
What happens to a dream deferred ...
Dream Variations
- To fling my arms in some place ...
Lascelles Abercrombie - The Box
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye ...
Laura E. Richards - Antonio 
(GW Bush voice impression)
Antonio was tired of living
a-lonio ...
Leigh Hunt - Abou Ben Adhem
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) ...
Letitia E. Landon - The Female Convict
She shrank from all, and her silent mood ...
Lewis Carroll - The Walrus and The Carpenter
(audio)
The sun was shining on the sea ...
Longfellow - The Village Blacksmith
(audio)
Under the spreading chestnut tree ...
Paul Revere's Ride
-Listen my children and you shall hear
Psalm of Life -Tell me not in mournful numbers ...
More Longfellow
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Night
A pale enchanted moon is sinking low ...
Marcie Hans - Fueled
(audio)
by a million man-made wings of fire ...
Marjorie Pickthall -
Daisy Times
See the grass is full of stars ...
Mikhail Lermontov - The Dream
In noon's heat, in a dale of Dagestan ...
Ogden Nash
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
(Santa's elf)
In Baltimore there lived a boy ...
Custard the Dragon
(audio)
Belinda lived in a little white house ...
Is There a Candlestick Maker In the House
The doctor gets you when you're born,
The preacher, when you marry ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Deacon's Masterpiece
(audio)
Have you heard of the wonderful one-horse shay ...
Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol
He did not wear his scarlet coat ...
Owen Meredith (Robert, Lord Lytton) - The
Chess-Board
My little love, do you remember ...
Pablo Neruda
Ode to My Socks
(audio)
Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks ...
Ode to Salt -
(audio)
This salt in the saltcellar
I once saw in the salt mines ...
more Pablo Neruda
Paula Blanch - The Donkey Poem
Don’t waste your time young lady, She heard the farmer say
Paul Laurence Dunbar - An Easter Ode
To the cold dark grave they go ...
Sympathy
- I know what the caged bird feels, alas! ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
To The Night
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night ...
Phoebe Cary - A Leak
in the Dike - A Story of Holland
The good dame looked from her cottage ...
Robert Browning - My Last Duchess
(audio)
That's my last duchess painted on the wall ...
The Pied Piper
(audio)
Hamelin town's in Brunswick, by famous Hanover city ...
Robert Burns - A Red Red
Rose
O my luve's like a red, red rose ...
Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening -
Whose woods these are I think I know ...
The Pasture -
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring ...
The Road Not Taken
(Mr T impression)
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ...
More Frost
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lands of Counterpane and Nod
When I was sick, and lay a-bed ...
Foreign Children (audio)
Little Indian, Sioux or Crow ...
Windy Nights (audio)
Whenever the moon and the stars are set ...
more RLS
Robert William Service - The Cremation of Sam McGee
There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold ...
Sam Walter Foss -
The House by the Side of the Road
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn ...
Samuel Bowden -
The Mouse and The Oyster
Let loftier pens the hero's acts relate ...
Samuel Ferguson - The Fairy Thorn
“Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel ...
Samuel Lover - Rory
O'More
Young Rory O’More courted Kathleen Bawn ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (audio)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Parts 1-7
Sara Teasdale - Alone
- I am alone, in spite of love ...
But Not To Me
- The April night is still and sweet ...
Twilight - Dreamily over the roofs ...
Sarah Helen Whitman - The Portrait
Slowly I raised the folds concealing that face ...
Sir Walter Scott - My
Native Land
Breathes there a man with soul so dead ...
(audio - Bullwinkle J. Moose voice impression)
Stevie Smith -
The Galloping Cat
Oh I am a cat that likes to gallop about ...
Thomas Hood - Faithless Sally Brown
Young Ben he was a nice young man ...
Thomas Moore - The Last Rose of Summer
(audio)
'Tis the last rose of summer ...
Thomas Warton - Solitude at an Inn
Oft upon the twilight plain, circled with thy shadowy train ...
The Mouse and The Oyster - When midnight's sable veil o'erspread the plain ...
Victor Hugo - Demain, des l'Aube (Tomorrow at Daybreak)
a French poem with English translation
(audio)
A Ma Fille Adèle (To My Daughter Adèle)
- written to his youngest daughter when she was a
baby (French and English)
W. B. Yeats - Adam's Curse -
We sat together at one summer's end ...
Are You Content? -
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson ...
The Wild Swans at Coole -
The trees are in their autumn beauty ...
More Yeats
William Blake -
The Tyger
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright ...
A Poison Tree - I was angry
with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end ...
William Makepeace Thackeray - Little Billee
There were three sailors of Bristol city ...
William Miller
- Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun ...
William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
(audio)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
William Wordsworth - Daffodils
(audio)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Lucy Gray -
Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray ...
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