Isaac Watts - A
Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy
There is a land of pure delight ...
James Russell Lowell - June
(from the Vision of Sir Launfal)
Over his keys the musing organist ...
James Whitcomb Riley -
Little Orphant Annie 
(audio)
Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Dance of the Dead
The warder he gazes at dead o' the night
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
That old sorcerer has vanished and for once has gone away!
John Donne - Death Be Not Proud
though some have called thee mighty and dreadful ....
John Greenleaf Whittier - Barbara
Frietchie
(audio)
Up from the meadows, rich with corn ...
John Hay - Little Breeches
(audio)
I don't go much on religion ...
John Keats - When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
(audio)
More Keats
John Liddell Kelly - Barney
Flynn at the Burns Club
In the cowld winter noights, when enjoyments are few ...
Immortality - At twenty-five I cast my horoscope ...
In China - Of all earth's un-English and heathenish holes ...
The Christian Philosopher's A.B.C (An Acrostic)
Alone and hopeless in a world of woe ...
John McCrae, Lt. Col. - In
Flanders Fields
(audio)
the poppies grow between the crosses row on row ...
John Milton - On His Blindness
When I consider how my light is spent ...
Jonathan Swift - Baucis and
Philemon
In ancient times, as story tells, the saints would often leave their cells ...
Jorge Luis Borges - Instantes (attributed)
If I could live my life again, in the next -- I'll try ...
José Zorrilla - Soneto
(Span.) / The Bull and the Picador
(Eng.)
Pawing the earth, and snorting in his rage ...
Joseph Bert Smiley - St. Peter at
the Gate (audio)
St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate with a solemn mien ...
Joyce Kilmer - Trees
(Jimmy Stewart voice impression)
I think that I should never see ...
John Suckling, Sir - Why So Pale and Wan
(audio)
fond lover, prithee why so pale ...
Justinus Kerner -
Der reichste Fürst ( German)
The Richest Prince (English) -
In the Hall at Worms were
sitting ('tis a tale of bygone days) ...
Kendrew Lascelles - The Box
Once upon a time, in the land of Hush-A-Bye ...
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 - From Vashti
What thing shall be held up to woman's beauty? ...
Leigh Hunt - Abou Ben Adhem
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase) ...
Lewis Carroll - The Walrus and The Carpenter
(audio)
The sun was shining on the sea ...
Father William
(audio)
You are old, Father William ...
Michael Corrigan - America Again (after Ginsberg)
(audio)
America, one of your citizens is singing in the desert ...
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 - This salt in the saltcellar
...
more Pablo Neruda
Paul Laurence Dunbar -
An Easter Ode -
To the cold dark grave they go ...
Sympathy
- I know what the caged bird feels, alas! ...
We Wear The Mask - that
grins and lies ...
Percy Bysshe Shelley -
To The Night
Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night ...
Love's Philosophy
- The fountains mingle with the river ...
Ozymandias - I met a
traveller from an antique land ...
