Adam Lindsay Gordon - An Exile's Farewell
The ocean heaves around us still with
long and measured swell ...
Alec Derwent Hope - His Coy
Mistress to Mr. Marvell
Since you have world enough and time, Sir ...
Aleksandr Pushkin
Madonna - Not by old masters, rich on crowded walls ...
The Prophet - Tormented by a spiritual thirst ...
Aleksey Koltsov - An Old Man's Song
I shall saddle a horse, a swift courser, he ...
Alexander Pope - Essay on Man
Epistle I,
Epistle II,
Epistle III,
Epistle IV
(in progress - see complete audio list)
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Come Into the Garden, Maud
Come into the garden, Maud, for the black bat, Night, has flown, ...
St. Agnes Eve - Deep on the convent-roof the snows ...
The Charge of the Light Brigade
(audio)
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 ...
Alfred Noyes - The Highwayman
(audio)
The wind was a torrent of darkness ...
Algernon Swinburne - Before
Dawn
Sweet life, if life were stronger ...
Andrew Marvell -
To His Coy Mistress
(audio)
Had we but world enough, and time ...
Ben Johnson - To Celia
Drink to me only with thine eyes ...
Billy Collins - Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun in the House
-
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking
(audio-2)
Bliss Carman
The Eavesdropper -
In a still room at hush of dawn ...
Rivers of Canada -
O all the little rivers that run to Hudson's Bay ...
Carl Sandburg - Who Am I?
My head knocks against the stars ...
Poppies -
She loves blood red poppies for a garden to walk in ...
Carlos Pezoa Vliz - Tarde En El Hospital (Spanish) /
The Hospital, One Afternoon (English)
Athwart the fields the drops are falling ...
Charles Baudelaire - Don
Juan Aux Enfers French /
Don Juan in Hades
English
When Juan sought the subterranean flood ...
Charles Edward Carryl - Robinson Crusoe
(audio)
The night was thick and hazy ....
Christopher Marlowe -
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my love ...
Clement Clarke Moore - A Visit From St. Nicholas
(audio)
T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house
Clement Yore - The Nun and the Harlot
Two figures lay in the morgue dragged from the river deep ...
Conrad Aiken - Music I Heard
with you was more than music ...
Dylan Thomas - Do
Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Old age should burn and rage at close of day ...
Edgar Allan Poe - (audio)
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 Bells - Hear the sledges with the bells ...
The Conqueror Worm - Lo! 'Tis a gala night ...
The Raven - Once upon a midnight dreary ...
more Poe
Edgar Guest - At Christmas
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the
year ...
See It Through -
When you're up against a trouble ...
Hate - They say we must not hate,
nor fight in hate ...
Edward Lear - Daddy Longlegs and The Fly
(audio)
Once Mr. Daddy Long-legs, all dressed in brown and gray ...
The Jumblies - They went to sea in a sieve, they did ...
The Owl and The Pussycat
The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat ...
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory
(audio)
Whenever Richard Cory went down town ...
Emanuel Geibel -
O kennst du Herz die beiden (German)
Two Angels (English) -
Know'st them, O heart!
the two fair sister angels ...
Emile Nelligan - La Romance du Vin
English translation, Song of Wine by Fred Cogswell
Ernest L. Thayer - Casey at the Bat
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day ...
Eugene Field - The Duel
(audio)
The gingham dog and the calico cat ...
Wynken, Blynken and Nod
sailed off in a wooden shoe ...
Ezra Pound -
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
While my hair was still cut straight across my ...
Frank Lebby Stanton - Keep
A-Goin'
Ef you strike a thorn or rose ...
Mighty Lak a Rose - Sweetest
little feller ...
Frdric Mistral - O Magali
Provenal (clip)
O Magali, my tant amado ... (also in French and English)
Friedrich von Schiller -
Ode to Joy
(audio)
Joy, thou source of light immortal ...
Gaston Cout - Jour de Lessive French
Laundry Day English -
I left this morning ...
George Gordon, Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty like
the night ...
When We Two Parted in
silence and tears ...
Gottfried August Brger -
The Wives of Weinsberg
Which way to Weinsberg? neighbor, say!
Grandpa Tucker - Backyard Lion (audio)
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 ....
(audio)
Harry 'Breaker' Morant
Love Outlastest All -
Could I borrow the laverock's lifting note ...
A Night Thought -
The world around is sleeping
Heinrich Heine -
The Sea Hath Its Pearls (trans. by Longfellow)
Ad Finem (trans. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Henri Michaux - Ma Vie
French / My Life English
You're going someplace without me ...
Henry Lawson - When
The Children Come Home
On a lonely selection far out in the West ...
Henry Wadsworth 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
Hilaire Belloc - Matilda
(audio)
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, it made one Gasp ...
Selections from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
The lion, the lion, he dwells in the waste ...
The South Country - When I am living in the Midlands ...
To Dives
- Dives, when you and I go down to hell ...
