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Drinking Song, A

Yeats, William Butler
Volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of A Drinking Song from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 11th, 2010.
If

Rudyard Kipling
This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995.
In a Garden

Lowell, Amy
Volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 14th, 2007.
Stupidity

Lowell, Amy
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.
In Flanders Fields

McCrae, John
Volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field, a weekly poetry project.
Birds, Vol. I, No 2, February 1897

Various
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." Later volumes were expanded to include animals, plants, etc. Summary by J. M. Smallheer From the Preface of Vol 1 No 1:"Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most graceful in form and action, swiftest in motion and most perfect emblems of freedom.
They are withal, very intelligent and have many remarkable traits, so that their habits and characteristics make a delightful study for all lovers of nature. In view of the facts, we feel that we are doing a useful work for the young, and one that will be appreciated by progressive parents, in placing within the easy possession of children in the homes these beautiful photographs of birds.
The text is prepared with the view of giving the children as clear an idea as possible, of haunts, habits, characteristics and such other information as will lead them to love the birds and delight in their study and acquaintance." NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING CO.
My Heart and Lute

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 2010

"My Heart and Lute" is a song/poem by Thomas Moore.In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called Haddocks' Eyes sung by the White Knight.
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To...With all my soul

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To...:"With all my soul, then, let us part" by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 16th, 2010.
So Warmly We Met

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of So Warmly We Met by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22nd, 2010.
Drink To Her

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Drink To Her by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for July 5th, 2009.
In the Morning of Life

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you eight recordings of In the Morning of Life by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 13th, 2009.
Day-Dream

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Day-Dream by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the fortnightly poetry project for July 12th, 2009.
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 14th, 2010.
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry Valentine's project for February 13, 2011.

Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore.
Here, Take My Heart

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Here, Take My Heart by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 29, 2012.

This weekly poem is one of the many love poems by the 19th-century Irish poet Thomas Moore. Some of his poems were composed. One of his best known poems is The Last Rose Of Summer.
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name

Thomas Moore
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore.

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.
Ophelia

Walter De la Mare
Ophelia, poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. This was published in 1920 in "Collected Poems 1901-1918" by Walter De la Mare.

Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him, and went insane. She drowned in a stream, gathering flowers of remembrance. This is one of a number of poems that De La Mare wrote about Shakespeare characters.
In The Long Run

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In The Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11th, 2010.
Fables for the Frivolous

Carryl, Guy Wetmore
One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writings. The fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before, each ending with a moral and a pun. Among the more celebrated of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, and The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven. (Summary written by Chriss)
In Harmony with Nature

Arnold, Matthew
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of In Harmony with Nature. by Matthew Arnold. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 8, 2012.
Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.
Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.
Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation)

Aeschylus
Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, "Prometheus Bound" is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces that rule the Universe. As one of the most compelling rebel manifestos ever composed, it has appealed not only to the expected host of scholars of Greek drama, but also to a fascinatingly free-spirited array of translators, especially since the early 19th century; Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, and activist-poet Augusta Webster are among those who have tried their poetic and linguistic powers at rendering it into English. Elizabeth Barrett Browning published not one but two completely different translations of it, the first in 1833 when she was twenty-seven years old and the second eighteen years later. It is this second, far greater, translation presented here.
Great Panjandrum Himself, The

Foote, Samuel
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Great Panjandrum Himself by Samuel Foote. This was the weekly poetry project for May 31st, 2009.
Best Thing in the World, The

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Best Thing in the World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 28th, 2010.
Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 1898

Various
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1898-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." Later issues were expanded to include animals, plants, etc
More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Frank Gelett Burgess
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the Goops. With entertaining cartoons - caricatures of misbehaving children - he described many different breaches of tact and good manners.

Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which an unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way. Ahem! Well, perhaps very few people have succeeded in not acting Goop-like at some point in their lives, but read along with Burgess as he attempts to define, in a humorous fashion, exactly what the differences between “Good” and “Goop” are!
There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara Teasdale
Volunteers offer you 28 different recordings of There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 2nd, 2010.
Gawayne and the Green Knight

Lewis, Charlton Miner
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady Elfinheart. The name Gawayne is often also spelled Gawain.
Wine, Water and Song

Chesterton, G. K.
A collection of 16 poems by G.K. Chesterton. All of the poems in this book, except for "The Strange Ascetic" are taken from "The Flying Inn", a book by the same author.
Frost Spirit, The

Whittier, John Greenleaf
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 28, 2012.
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet. He is considered one of the Fireside Poets and was influenced by Roberet Burns.
Cana

James Freeman Clarke
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14th, 2010.

Trivia: After hearing the song "John Brown's Body", Clarke suggested that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe write new lyrics; the result was "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". He published but few verses, but at heart was a poet.
Up The Line

Carleton, Will
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Up The Line by Will Carleton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7th, 2010.
How Betsey and I Made Up

Carleton, Will
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.
Sister Rosa: A Ballad

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Sister Rosa: A Ballad by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako

Service, Robert W.
These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The word Cheechako, from Chinook Jargon, originated in the United States (Alaska) and Canada (Yukon) and was imported into local English during the Yukon gold rush that began in 1896. Cheechako, is a non derogatory word meaning "newcomer" or "tenderfoot." The derivation looks something like this: chee new cha come ko home.
To the Man of the High North

Service, Robert W.
Volunteers bring you 5 recordings of To the Man of the High North by Robert Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 28, 2010.
Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon".
His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector, not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was.
In addition to his Yukon works, Service also wrote poetry set in locales as diverse as South Africa, Afghanistan, and New Zealand.
Vitai Lampada

Sir Henry Newbolt
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt.

'Vitai lampada' is a quotation from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by Lucretius and literally means 'The torch of life.'

This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010.
Autumn

John Clare
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare . This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010.
War Is Kind (Collection)

Crane, Stephen
Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in The Red Badge Of Courage. Unlike that book, this collection leaves the battlefield itself behind to explore the damage war does to people’s hearts and minds. Reeking of dashed hopes, simultaneously sympathetic with the victims of war and cynical about the purposes of war, Crane implicitly criticizes the image of the romantic hero and asks if Love can survive.
The poetic voice is one of an old and wearied soul, stark and disillusioned, which is all the more intriguing since Crane was dead before he reached his 30th birthday. His work calls to mind the Beat Poets of the mid 20th century in its powerful use of language and bleak idiomatic landscape. It is poetry on the cusp of the fin de siècle; echoing the passing age and presaging the newborn century.
November

John Clare
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is often now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self".
Hero and Leander (version 2)

Marlowe, Christopher
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite sides of the Hellespont. To enjoy one night of love, Leander dares to swim this formidable strait, unluckily meeting the god Neptune along the way. Unaware of the resentment he has aroused by rejecting the advances of this old queen of the sea, the lad gains the shore and, once past the shock of appearing naked on his lover's doorstep, finds his way into her bed. There the young couple, although ignorant of the facts of life (Hero is a "nun" in the temple of Venus!), discover "all that elder lovers know" by (awkward) trial and (hilarious) error. The unfinished poem ends with one lover having fallen out of bed, the long return journey across the Hellespont still to come and an angry Neptune lying in wait. Although George Chapman continued the poem after Marlowe's death, this reading is of Marlowe's original only.
Flight

Lloyd Mifflin
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Flight by Lloyd Mifflin.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 19, 2011.
Lloyd Mifflin first received art instruction from his father and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as studying in Germany. He later believed that the paint fumes were affecting his health, so he turned to writing poetry. He eventually published over 500 sonnet.
The Flight is from The Golden Treasury or American Songs and Lyrics (1897) - edited by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1864 - 1905)
Bible (KJV) 19: Psalm 133

King James Version
Volunteers bring you eight different recordings of Psalm 133, to celebrate United Nations Day. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 22nd, 2006.
Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday

S.A.R.
17 recordings of Let Us Make Each Day Our Birthday by S.A.R., from The California Birthday Book (1909).
Moon

James Russell Lowell
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Moon by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.
Calendar of Sonnets, A

Jackson, Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet for each month of the year, devoted simply and beautifully to the shifting wonder of nature through the seasons.
Road

Siegfried Sassoon
Volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road, a weekly poetry project.
January

Jackson, Helen Hunt
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of January by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an Amewrican writer and activist for the improvement of treatment of the Native Americans by the U.S. government. Her books A Century of Dishonor and Ramona both attracted considerable attention to her cause.
Alphabet of History, An

Nesbit, Wilbur D.
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of this
book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune,
which newspaper is hereby thanked for
the privilege of reproducing this Alphabet
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form!
Christmas Tree, The

Anonymous
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Christmas Tree by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 19, 2010
This poem taken from Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg, contianing fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitations in costume for children of five to fifteen years. (from book introduction)
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898

Various
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature."
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