American
Amy Lowell - Patterns
(audio)
I walk down the garden paths ...
Annette Wynne - I Keep 3 Wishes Ready
lest I should chance to meet ...
Billy Collins - Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun in the House
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The neighbors' dog will not stop barking
(audio-2)
Charles Edward Carryl - Robinson Crusoe
The night was thick and hazy ....
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - A Conservative
(audio)
The garden beds I wandered by ...
Clement Clarke Moore - A Visit From St. Nicholas
(audio)
T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house
Guy Wetmore Carryl -
The Sycophantic Fox and The Gullible Raven - A raven sat upon a tree ....
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 Bells - Hear the sledges with the bells ...
more Poe
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 ...
Grandpa Tucker - Backyard Lion (audio)
When I was telling Maw about the lion that I saw ...
John Hay - Little Breeches
I don't go much on religion ...
Joyce Kilmer - Trees
(Jimmy Stewart voice impression)
I think that I should never see ...
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 ...
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
Marcie Hans - Fueled
(audio)
by a million man-made wings of fire ...
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! ...
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
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 ...
