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Not Yet my Soul

Robert Louis Stevenson
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
The following poem comes from his collection entitled Underwoods, first published in 1887.
Compliment

Eugene Field
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Compliment by Eugene Field. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2013.
Hidden Gems

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers offer you 17 different recordings of Hidden Gems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 9th, 2010.
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.
Uselessness

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you __ recordings of Uselessness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 29, 2020.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
Life

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The following statement expresses Wilcox's unique blending of New Thought, Spiritualism, and a Theosophical belief in reincarnation: "As we think, act, and live here today, we build the structures of our homes in spirit realms after we leave earth, and we build karma for future lives, thousands of years to come, on this earth or other planets. Life will assume new dignity, and labor new interest for us, when we come to the knowledge that death is but a continuation of life and labor, in higher planes."
Domestic Bliss

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914)
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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.
How to Make a Man of Consequence

Mark Lemon
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London, whilst at the same time he was contributing to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and was founding editor of both Punch and The Field. (Summary form Wikipedia)
Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus
Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903.
Women I'm Not Married To

Franklin Pierce Adams
This poem, by Franklin P. Adams, is the sequel to/answer to Dorothy Parker's poem, Women I'm Not Married To, with a decidedly different but equally humorous take on the matter.
Agamemnon's Tomb

Emma Lazarus
Volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Agamemnon's Tomb, by Emma Lazarus.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 16, 2021.
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Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes.
She wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" in 1883. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
Grown-Up

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Grown-Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay..
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3, 2021.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright.She won poetry prizes from an early age, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, and went on to use verse as a medium for her feminist activism. She also wrote verse-dramas and a highly-praised opera The King's Henchman. Her novels appeared under the name Nancy Boyd, and she refused lucrative offers to publish them under her own name. (Wikipedia )
My Lady April

Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement.
Thunderstorm at Night

Eric Mackay
George Eric Mackay was an English minor poet, now remembered as the sponging half-brother of Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist. Mackay and Corelli, born Mary Mackay, were the children of Charles Mackay, by different mothers.As a poet he is described as "execrable", and reliant on Corelli's promotion of his works. Mackay achieved some reputation in his time for Letters of a Violinist (1886). It sold 35,000 copies; he repaid Corelli's efforts by implying he wrote her novels.
How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar

Guy Wetmore Carryl
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 22, 2013.
Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American humorist and poet. Some of his better known poems were parodies on nursery rhymes and Aesop's Fables.
Midsummer

William Cullen Bryant
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013.

This poem taken from the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Household Edition.
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.
Hag

Robert Herrick
A poem for Halloween by the 17th century English author Robert Herrick. His poems were not widely popular at the time they were published. His style was strongly influenced by Ben Jonson, by the classical Roman writers, and by the poems of the late Elizabethan era. This must have seemed quite old-fashioned to an audience whose tastes were tuned to the complexities of the metaphysical poets such as John Donne and Andrew Marvell. His works were rediscovered in the early nineteenth century, and have been regularly printed ever since.
Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

Robert Herrick
His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not free from exaggeration, is generally free from intellectual conceits and distortion, and is eminent throughout for a youthful NAIVETE. (From the introduction to FROM THE LYRICAL POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK by Francis Turner Palgrave; Dec. 1876)
Austerity Of Poetry

Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. (Wikipedia)
How The White Rose Came

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of How The White Rose Came by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 30, 2021.
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Springtime.. a tale of a rose and a few garden insects.
End Of The Day

Duncan Campbell Scott
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The End Of The Day by Duncan Campbell Scott.This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 23, 2020.
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Duncan Campbell Scott CMG FRSC was a Canadian bureaucrat, poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.
Night in March

Duncan Campbell Scott
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Night in March by Duncan Campbell Scott.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 1, 2020.
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Hopefully this Fortnightly poem will encourage spring to arrive.
Youth's Spring-Tribute

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Youth's Spring-Tribute by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry Poetry project for April 15, 2012.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti's work.
Winter Sport

Unknown
Volunteers bring you 13 readings of Winter Sport, by an unknown author. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 23 - 30, 2014.
Song—''When Love came first to Earth.''

Thomas Campbell
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Song—'' When Love came first to Earth.'' by Thomas Campbell.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 12, 2020.
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Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and in 1801, "The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes". ( Wikipedia)
You Never Can Tell

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Christmas Fancies

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best", suggesting an echo of Alexander Pope's "Whatever is, is right."

None of Wilcox's works were included by F. O. Matthiessen in The Oxford Book of American Verse, but Hazel Felleman chose no fewer than fourteen of her poems for Best Loved Poems of the American People, while Martin Gardner selected "The Way Of The World" and "The Winds of Fate" for Best Remembered Poems. (Wikipedia)
Thunder In The Garden

William Morris
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Thunder In The Garden by William Morris.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 26, 2021.
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William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain. Morris is recognized as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain. He was best known in his lifetime as a poet, although he posthumously became better known for his designs.
Wish

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Wish by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 3, 2022.

What if you could do it all over again, would you? This Weekly is taken from Poems of Power by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In November

Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."
Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
God-Speed to the Snow

Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."

Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Spray

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet, who published several poetry collections, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for her Collection Love Songs.
Wine

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.

Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same year.
Teasdale's second collection, Helen of Troy and Other Poems, was published in 1911.[2] It was well received by critics, who praised its lyrical mastery and romantic subject matter.
Teasdale's third poetry collection, Rivers to the Sea, was published in 1915. It was and is a bestseller, being reprinted several times.
In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society"; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (inaugurated 1922).
Winter Stars

Sara Teasdale
This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Driftwood

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow.
Society Upon The Stanislaus

Bret Harte
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Society Upon The Stanislaus by Bret Harte.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 24, 2021.
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Taken from Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II by Thomas L. Masson
Summer Storm

Sara Teasdale
Volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Summer Storm by Sara Teasdale.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 30, 2020.
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The season is starting to wind down, here is a celebration of summer storms, taken from Flame and Shadow (1920).
Interpretation

Ambrose Bierce
Volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Interpretation by Ambrose Bierce. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2013.
Winter Stars

Sara Teasdale
In honor of Winter Solstice 2014, Volunteers bring you fourteen readings of Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale. This is the weekly poetry reading for December 21, 2014.
Red Maples

Sara Teasdale
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many Volunteers as possible!
Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion.
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.
Song Against Songs, The

Chesterton, G. K.
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 16, 2011.
Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 21 stone (130 kg; 290 lb). His girth gave rise to a famous anecdote. During World War I a lady in London asked why he was not 'out at the Front'; he replied, 'If you go round to the side, you will see that I am.' On another occasion he remarked to his friend George Bernard Shaw: "To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England". Shaw retorted, "To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it". P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin."(
India Wharf

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet.
Poet Looks At The Moon

Jo Hsu Chang
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of A Poet Looks At The Moon (translated by E. Powys Mathers).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 28, 2020.
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This Weekly Poem is taken from The Garden of Bright Waters by E. Powys Mathers (as translator) (pub 1920)
INTRODUCTION to The Garden Of Bright Waters

Anonymous
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of INTRODUCTION to The Garden Of Bright Waters, by Anonymous, translated by Edward Powys Mathers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 18, 2021.
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Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Some of his translations were set to music by Aaron Copland.
Walking Up A Hill At Dawn

Edward Powys Mathers
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Walking Up A Hill At Dawn by Edward Powys Mathers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 18, 2019.
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This poem is taken from The Garden Of Bright Waters - One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love PoemsTranslated by Edward Powys Mathers, 1920
In A Subway Station

Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.
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