Adelaide Crapsey - The Mourner
I have no time for noon-tide and the sun ...
Amy Lowell - Patterns
(audio)
I walk down the garden paths ...
Annette Wynne - I Keep 3 Wishes Ready
lest I should chance to meet ...
Columbus - An Italian boy that liked to play ...
Indian Children - Where we walk to school each day ...
Billy Collins - Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun in the House
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking
(audio-2)
Carl Sandburg - Who Am I?
My head knocks against the stars ...
Poppies -
She loves blood red poppies for a garden to walk in ...
Charles Edward Carryl - Robinson Crusoe
(audio)
The night was thick and hazy ....
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - A Conservative
(audio)
The garden beds I wandered by ...
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
Conrad Aiken - Music I Heard
with you was more than music ...
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 ...
He Who Serves - He has not
served who gathers gold ...
See It Through -
When you're up against a trouble ...
Hate - They say we must not hate,
nor fight in hate ...
Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory
(audio)
Whenever Richard Cory went down town ...
Eliza Hickok - This
Way
Whence came and whither bound are we ...
Elizabeth Bishop - Giant Toad
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me ...
Elizabeth Oakes Smith - The
Drowned Mariner
A mariner sat on the shrouds one night ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solitude
Laugh, and the world laughs with you ...
Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down
the walk, he did not know I saw ...
(audio)
A Drop Fell on the Apple Tree
- another on the roof ...
More Dickinson
Ernest L. Thayer - Casey at the Bat
It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day ...
Ethel Lynn Beers -All Quiet Along The Potomac
they say, "Except now and then a stray picket"
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 ...
(audio)
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)
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Eliza Crossing the River
From her resting-place by the trader chased ...
Harriet Monroe -
Love Song
I love my life but not too well ...
Nancy Hanks
- Prairie Child, brief as dew ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Laura E. Richards - Antonio
(GW Bush voice impression)
Antonio was tired of living
a-lonio ...
Eletelephony - Once
there was an elephant ...
Marcie Hans - Fueled
(audio)
by a million man-made wings of fire ...
Marion Harland - But
Once
We pass this way but once, dear heart! ...
Michael Corrigan - America Again (after Ginsberg)
(audio)
America, one of your citizens is singing in the desert ...
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 ...
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! ...
We Wear The Mask - that
grins and lies ...
Phoebe Cary - A Leak
in the Dike - A Story of Holland
The good dame looked from her cottage ...
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 Hillyer - Moo!
Summer is over, the old cow said ...
Robert Lowell -
The Drunken Fisherman
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish ...
Sam Walter Foss -
The House by the Side of the Road
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn ...
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 ...
T. S. Eliot - The Love
Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
Let us go then, you and I ...
Vachel Lindsay - Factory Windows
(audio)
are always broken. Somebody's always throwing bricks ...
W. H. C. Hosmer - Glen of Ghosts
Near the roadside yawns a dismal glen ...
Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!
(audio)
our fearful trip is done, the ship has weathered ...
William Cullen Bryant
Thanatopis - To him who in the love of nature holds communion ...
The Lapse of Time - Lament who will, in fruitless tears ...
The Murdered Traveller - When spring, to woods and wastes around ...
