81 Classic Poems (Audiobook)

Anonymous Early Song:
The Cuckoo Song

Sir Thomas Wyatt:
Whoso List to Hunt

Sir Walter Raleigh:
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage

Sir Philip Sidney:
Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella

Christopher Marlowe:
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet 129 - Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame

Thomas Campion:
When to Her Lute Corina Sings
Rose-cheeked Laura
There is a Garden in Her Face

John Dunne:
Song - Go and catch a falling star
The Sun Rising
Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud

Ben Johnson:
Song: To Celia

Robert Herrick:
The Argument of His Book
Delight in Disorder
To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Upon Julia’s Clothes

George Herbert:
The Collar
The Pulley
Love (III)

John Milton:
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)

John Suckling:
Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover?
Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover)

Richard Lovelace:
To Althea, from Prison

Andrew Marvell:
To His Coy Mistress
The Definition of Love

Henry Vaughan:
The Retreat

John Dryden:
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

Thomas Gray:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Blake:
From Poetical Sketches:
Song
From Songs of Innocence:
Introduction
The Lamb
From Songs of Experience:
The Tyger

Robert Burns:
To a Mouse
A Red, Red Rose

William Wordsworth:
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
My Heart Leaps Up
The World Is Too Much With Us

Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
Kubla Khan

George Gordon, Lord Byron:
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Ode to the West Wind
To a Skylark
Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55)

John Keats:
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Bright Star

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Concord Hymn
The Rhodora

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43

Edgar Allan Poe:
To Helen
The City in the Sea
Annabel Lee

Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
Songs from The Princess
The Splendor Falls
Tears, Idle Tears
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
The Eagle
Crossing the Bar

Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Home-Thoughts from Abroad

Walt Whitman:
Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31)
O Captain! My Captain!

Matthew Arnold:
Dover Beach

Emily Dickinson:
303 - The Soul selects her own Society
986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Christina Rossetti:
Up-Hill

Algernon Charles Swinburne:
The Garden of Proserpine

Thomas Hardy:
The Darkling Thrush

Gerard Manley Hopkins:
Pied Beauty

Alfred Edward Housman:
Lovliest of Tress, the Cherry Now
With Rue My Heart Is Laden

William Butler Yeats:
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Wild Swans at Coole

About The Readers:
Alexander Scourby
Veteran stage and film actor, distinguished himself as narrator of many television specials, most
notably 'The Body Human.' He recorded more than 500 books for the blind for the Library Of Congress
before his death. Respected critics say that he has provived us with the finest reading in America.

Nancy Wickwire
...was featured for two seasons in the Stratford (Conn.) Shakespeare Festival and has played the
female lead in all of Shakespeare's plays. She regularly appears in key roles on radio and
television. She is particularly proud of having been a member of the original company that presented
Dylan Thomas's play for voices Under Milkwood.

Bramwell Fletcher
Known to many as Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady, has over 30 years in the theater starting with
the famous Shakespeare Company of Stratford-on-Avon. Primarily a stage actor, his role in My Fair
Lady is the thirtieth leading role he has played during the past two decades. His personal love of
poetry is reflected in his sensitive reading.