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Sleeper

Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
Haunted Palace

Edgar Allan Poe
"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, "The Fall of the House of Usher," and published in it in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1839. It reappeared in that as a separate poem in the 1845 edition of Poe's poems. (Note on The Haunted House from The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe)
To the River

Edgar Allan Poe
Volunteers bring you 26 recordings of To the River by Edgar Allan Poe.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2019.
This Weekly Poem is taken from the Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1883)
Forest Reverie

Edgar Allan Poe
Volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Forest Reverie by Edgar Allan Poe.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 2, 2022.
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Whilst Edgar Poe was editor of the Broadway Journal, some poems were published over the signature of "A. M. Ide". In order, doubtless, to give a show of variety, Poe was then publishing some of his known works in his journal over noms de plume, and as no other writings whatever can be traced to any person bearing the name of "A. M. Ide," it is not impossible that the poems now republished in this collection may be by the author of "The Raven." Having been published without his usual elaborate revision, Poe may have wished to hide his hasty work under an assumed name.
Owl and the Pussycat, The

Lear, Edward
Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable historical feature is the introduction of the runcible spoon.
Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening

William Wordsworth
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening by William Wordsworth.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14, 2021.
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This title is scarcely correct. It was during a solitary walk on the banks of the Cam that I was first struck with this appearance, and applied it to my own feelings in the manner here expressed, changing the scene to the Thames, near Windsor. This, and the three stanzas of the following poem, Remembrance of Collins, formed one piece; but, upon the recommendation of Coleridge, the three last stanzas were separated from the other.—I. F. (taken from the notes in the introduction to The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by William Knight, Vol. 1 )
Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Moore, Clement Clarke
Volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project.
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To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works

Phillis Wheatley
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019.
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The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston, In New-England. She was the first published African-American female poet, Wheatley was emancipated (set free) shortly after the publication of her book.
Fragment: To The Mind Of Man

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fragment: To The Mind Of Man by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 28, 2021.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. This poem is taken from THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, VOLUME 1 (1914)note: His second wife, Mary Shelley, was the author of Frankenstein.
To...As when with downcast eyes

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To...As when with downcast eyes by Alfred Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 15th, 2010.
Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010.
Dirge for the Year

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not see fame during his lifetime, but recognition for his poetry grew steadily following his death. Shelley was a key member of a close circle of visionary poets and writers that included Lord Byron; Leigh Hunt; Thomas Love Peacock; and his own second wife, Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.
Sunshine

Vachel Lindsay
It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the Middle West. And we may permit time to decide how far he expresses their emotion. But it may be opportune to emphasize his plea for poetry as a song art, an art appealing to the ear rather than the eye. THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS; Introduction by Harriet Monroe (1860 - 1936)
Good Hours

Frost, Robert
Volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of Good Hours by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 9th, 2007.
Wall

Robert Browning
Browning, when at his best in vigor, clearness, and beauty, is peculiarly a poet for young people. His freedom from sentimentality, his liveliness of conception and narration, his high optimism, and his interest in the things that make for the life of the soul, appeal to the imagination and the feelings of youth. - TEACHERS' COLLEGE, NEW YORK, July, 1899. (from the Preface to Browning's Shorter Poems)
Summer

Christina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.Rossetti was educated at home by her mother and father, who had her study religious works, classics, fairy tales and novels. Rossetti delighted in the works of Keats, Scott, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. The influence of the work of Dante Alighieri, Petrarch and other Italian writers filled the home and would have a deep impact on Rossetti's later writing. Their home was open to visiting Italian scholars, artists and revolutionaries.
Uphill

Christina Rossetti
Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the Bible, folk tales and the lives of the saints. Her early pieces often feature meditations on death and loss, in the Romantic tradition.
Consider the Lilies of the Field

Christina Rossetti
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Consider the Lilies of the Field by Christina Rossetti.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 1, 2021.
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Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, most of which imitated her favored poets. In 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads while drawing narratives from the Bible, folk tales, and the lives of saints.
Old and New Year Ditties

Rossetti, Christina G.
Volunteers bring you 3 different recordings of Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti.
Echo

Rossetti, Christina G.
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Echo by Christina Rossetti. This was the weekly poetry project for April 12th, 2009.
Bird Raptures

Christina Rossetti
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Bird Raptures by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 11, 2011.
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Spring (Rosetti)

Rossetti, Christina G.
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Spring by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Fortnightly Poetry Poetry project for March 25, 2012.
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Rainy Day

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 29, 2013.
Are The Children at Home?

Sangster, Margaret
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Are The Children at Home? by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 5, 2012.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was an American poet, author, and editor. She was popular in the late 19th and early 20th century. Among Sangster's prose works are several volumes of stories for children, and of these, Little Jamie was written when she was seventeen years old. Hours with Girls and Winsome Womanhood were her most popular works. Her volumes of poetry include, Poems of the Household, Home Fairies and Heart Flowers, On the Road Home and Easter Bells.
Snow-Flakes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 20th, 2009.
Christmas Bells

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 24th, 2006.
Shadow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Shadow BY Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27, 2020.
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This poem is taken from The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow
Broken Oar

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Broken Oar by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 10, 2020.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. (Wikipedia )
Castle-Builder

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Castle-Builder by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3, 2019.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.
Spell of the Yukon, The

Service, Robert W.
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 27th, 2009.
Mountain Station

Andrew Barton Paterson
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A Mountain Station by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 4, 2021.
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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, CBE was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, his "Waltzing Matilda" (1895) is regarded widely as Australia's unofficial national anthem.This poem is taken from The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson.
Wanting is - What?

Robert Browning
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax.When Browning died in 1889, he was regarded as a sage and philosopher-poet who through his writing had made contributions to Victorian social and political discourse. Unusually for a poet, societies for the study of his work were founded while he was still alive. Such Browning Societies remained common in Britain and the United States until the early 20th century. ( Wikipedia )
Afternoon in School - the last lesson

D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
Morning Work

D. H. Lawrence
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Morning Work by D. H. Lawrence.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 15, 2021.
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This Weekly poem is taken from Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence (1913)
Fancy

Lewis Carroll
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Fancy by Lewis Carroll.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 30, 2022.
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Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and is known best as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, and Jabberwocky. This poem is a humourous warning, contrasting what one imagines someone to be like compared to reality - appropriate in our age of online communication!
Ode To Duty

William Wordsworth
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ode To Duty by William Wordsworth.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 31, 2020
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“Ode to Duty” is an appeal to the principle of morality for guidance and support. This Fortnightly Poem is taken from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8) by William Wordsworth
O Hollow Hollow Hollow

Gilbert, W. S.
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2012.
Here is a poem by the "fleshly" poet, Bunthorne, from the opera Patience, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Who better to introduce it than the poet himself:
BUNTHORNE. It is a wild, weird, fleshy thing; yet very tender, very yearning, very precious. It is called, "Oh, Hollow! Hollow! Hollow!"
PATIENCE Is it a hunting song?
BUNTHORNE. A hunting song? No, it is not a hunting song. It is the wail of the poet's heart on discovering that everything is commonplace. To understand it, cling passionately to one another and think of faint lilies.
Bunthorne was considered to have been modelled on Oscar Wilde, but more recent reseach has suggested that this claim is not correct.
Foreign Lands (version 2)

Robert Louis Stevenson
Volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 4, 2021.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer. A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018 he was ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

Anonymous
Volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 20, 2011.
'Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation' contains the famous 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper's' tongue twister, although this twister was tripping tongues for many years before it first appeared in print. The book also contains a tongue twister of a similar style for every letter of the alphabet. This selection contains the verses for C, F and K.
Alarm Clocks

Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his works are largely unknown, a select few of his poems remain popular and are published frequently in anthologies.

At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, whom critics often compared to British contemporaries G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) and Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953). He enlisted in the New York National Guard and was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31.
Vision

Joyce Kilmer
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Vision by Joyce Kilmer.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26, 2021.
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. He was deployed to France with the 69th Infantry Regiment (the famous "Fighting 69th") in 1917. He was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Second Battle of the Marne in 1918 at the age of 31. He was married to Aline Murray, also an accomplished poet and author, with whom he had five children.
Birches

Frost, Robert
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
night is freezing fast

A. E. Housman
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 17, 2019.
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Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived.
Something Childish, but very Natural

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 7, 2011.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture.
Answer to a Child's Question

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2013.
Presence of Love

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. He coined many familiar words and phrases, including the celebrated suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson, and American transcendentalism.

Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it has been speculated by some that he suffered from bipolar disorder, a condition not identified during his lifetime. Coleridge suffered from poor health that may have stemmed from a bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these concerns with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction.
Joyful Widower

Robert Burns
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Joyful Widower by Robert Burns.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2019.
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Most of this song is by Burns: his fancy was fierce with images of matrimonial joy or infelicity, and he had them ever ready at the call of the muse. It was first printed in the Musical Museum.] (text )
Voice Of The Banjo

Paul Laurence Dunbar
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Voice Of The Banjo by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 3, 2019.
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What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They had felt, as I felt, that however gifted his race had proven itself in music, in oratory, in several of the other arts, here was the first instance of an American negro who had evinced innate distinction in literature. In my criticism of his book ... So far as I could remember, Paul Dunbar was the only man of pure African blood and of American civilization to feel the negro life aesthetically and express it lyrically. (W. D. HOWELLS from the Introduction to Lyrics of Lowly Life)
Fluctuations

Anne Brontë
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fluctuations by Anne Brontë.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 24, 2021.
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Taken from POEMS by Currer, Ellis, And Acton Bell.
Hope

Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. ( Wikipedia )
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