All poems listed on this page have audio readings. This page covers
poets by first name from A through L. For
M through Z, click here
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 ...
Christina Rosetti
A Birthday - My heart is like a singing bird ...
Echo - Come to me in the silence of the night; ...
(audio)
Remember - Remember me when I am gone away ...
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 ...
