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Adelaide Crapsey - The Mourner
I have no time for noon-tide and the sun ...
Alexander Pope - Essay on Man
Epistle I,
Epistle II,
Epistle III,
Epistle IV
(in progress - see complete audio list)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade -
Half a league, half a league, half a league onward, all in the valley of Death ...
Crossing The Bar- Sunset and evening star,
and one clear call for me ...
Amy Lowell -
Patterns - I walk down the garden paths ...
Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress
Had we but world enough, and time ...
Annette Wynne - I Keep 3 Wishes Ready
lest I should chance to meet ...
Bible
Psaume 23
(Louis Segond vers.) French
Psalm 23 English
Billy Collins - (audio-2)
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun in the House -
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking ...
Charles Edward Carryl -
Robinson Crusoe -
The night was thick and hazy ....
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
A Conservative - The garden beds I wandered by ...
Clement Clarke Moore -
A Visit From St. Nicholas -
T'was the night before Christmas ...
Edgar Allan Poe -
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow ...
(Sylvester Stallone voice impression)
Alone - From childhood's hour, I have not been as others were ...
Annabel Lee - It was many and many a year ago ...
El Dorado Gaily bedight, a gallant knight ...
(Ronald Reagan voice impression)
The Conqueror Worm - Lo! 'Tis a gala night ...
The Raven - Once upon a midnight dreary ...
Edward Lear -
Daddy Longlegs and The Fly
Once Mr. Daddy Long-legs, all dressed in brown and gray ...
The Owl and The Pussycat - went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Sonnets from the Portuguese:
#43 How do I love thee ...
#33 Yes, call me by my pet name ...
Emily Dickinson -
A Bird Came Down -
the walk, he did not know I saw ...
Hope is the Thing with Feathers -
That perches in the soul ...
I Had No Time for Hate -
because the grave would hinder me ...
More Dickinson
Ethel Lynn Beers -All Quiet Along The Potomac
they say, "Except now and then a stray picket"
Frank Lebby Stanton - Mighty Lak a Rose
Sweetest little feller ...
Frédéric Mistral - O Magali
Provençal
(clip)
O Magali, my tant amado ... (also in French
and English)
Friedrich von Schiller -
Ode to Joy
Joy, thou source of light immortal ...
Grandpa Tucker - Backyard Lion
When I was telling Maw about the lion that I saw ...
Guy Wetmore Carryl -
The Sycophantic Fox and The Gullible Raven -
A raven sat upon a tree ....
Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin -
Lament of the Irish Emigrant
-
I'm sitting by the stile, Mary ...
Hilaire Belloc - Matilda
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, it made one Gasp
...
James Whitcomb Riley -
Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay
...
John Keats -
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain ...
Joseph Bert Smiley - St. Peter at
the Gate
St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate with a solemn mien ...
Joyce Kilmer - Trees
(Jimmy Stewart voice impression)
I think that I shall never see ...
Laura E. Richards - Antonio
(GW Bush voice impression)
Antonio was tired of living
a-lonio ...
Lewis Carroll -
The Walrus and The Carpenter - The sun was shining on the sea ...
Father William
- You are old, Father William ...
Longfellow -
The Village Blacksmith -
Under the spreading chestnut tree ...
Paul Revere's Ride -
Listen my children and you shall hear
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Night
(audio)
A pale enchanted moon is sinking low ...
Marcie Hans - Fueled
by a million man-made wings of fire ...
Michael Corrigan - America Again (after Ginsberg)
America, one of your citizens is singing in the desert ...
Ogden Nash
Custard the Dragon Belinda
lived in a little white house ...
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
(Santa's elf)
In Baltimore there lived a boy ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Deacon's Masterpiece
Have you heard of the wonderful one-horse shay ...
Pablo Neruda
Ode to My Socks -
Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks ...
Ode to Salt - This salt in the saltcellar
I once saw in the salt mines ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar -
Sympathy
- I know what the caged bird feels, alas! ...
We Wear The Mask - that
grins and lies ...
Robert Browning -
My Last Duchess
-
That's my last duchess painted on the wall ...
The Pied Piper -
Hamelin town's in Brunswick, by famous Hanover city ...
Robert Frost -
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 ...
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Whose
woods these are I think I know ...
Robert Louis Stevenson
Foreign Children - Little Indian, Sioux or Crow ...
Windy Nights - Whenever the moon and the stars are set ...
Robert William Service -
The Cremation of Sam McGee -
There are strange things done in the midnight sun ...
My Madonna - I haled a woman from the street ...
The Men Who Don't Fit In -
There's a race of men that don't fit in ...
The Shooting of Dan McGrew -
A bunch of the boys were whooping it up ...
Rudyard Kipling -
If - If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...
Gunga Din - You may talk o' gin and beer ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Parts 1-7
Thomas Love Peacock -
Glee - The Ghosts - In life three ghostly friars were we ...
Love and Age - I play'd with you 'mid cowslips blowing ...
(Sir) Walter Scott -
My
Native Land - Breathes there a man with soul so dead ...
(Bullwinkle J. Moose voice impression)
William Maginn -
The Irishman and The Lady
There was a lady lived at Leith ...
William Shakespeare - Sonnets
Sonnet 1 - From fairest creatures we desire increase
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds ...
