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MP3 recordings by Alan Drake of poetry and prose written my tradition writers including Emerson, Stevens, Thoreau, Whitman, Ezra Pound, Cummings, Great Britain, American literature...

We now host 600+ individual MP3 recordings of poems, fiction, short,
stories, newspaper articles and other works, sampling 130+ authors
from 600 B.C.E up to the current day —all read by Alan Davis Drake.

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Adams, Henry Brooks (1838-1918)
- • Buddha and Brahma [16:28]
Aesop (c. 550 BCE)
- • Prometheus and the Making of Man
- • The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag
- • The Slave and the Lion
- • The Woman and the Farmer
Aiken, Conrad (1889-1973)
- • Music I Heard
Anonymous
- • Barbara Allan
- • The Demon Who Helped Drake, from Legend Land (Tale)
- • The Song of the Lenape Warriors Going Against the Enemy
- • The Three Ravens
Arensberg, Walter Conrad (1898-1954)
- • Song of the Soul Set Free
Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888)
- • Dover Beach
Barbauld, Anna Leatitia (1743-1825)
- • Rights of Women
- • The Caterpillar
Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)
- • To A Cabaret Dancer
- • To the Dead Favorite of Liu Ch'e
Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
- • The Remorse of the Dead - 01:22 [Temp link…]
Bennett, Henry Holcomb (1863-1924)
- • The Flag Goes By
Blake, William (1757-1827)
- • Never Seek To Tell Thy Love
- • To Spring
Blumenthal, Carl
- • Tree Play
Bodenheim, Maxwell (1891-1954)
- • A Day
- • After Writing Poetry [Temp link...]
- • An Old Negro Asleep
- • Rear Porches
- • Sunday in a Certain City Suburb [Temp link...]
- • The Old Jew
- • The Vagabond in the Park
- • To a Man
Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948)
- • Night and Morning Songs: Dawn
Bradford, Gamaliel (1863-1932)
- • Disorder
Bradstreet, Anne (1612-1672)
- • A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment
- • Before the Birth of One of Her Children
- • By Night, When Others Soundly Slept
- • The Author to Her Book
- • The Flesh and the Spirit (Excerpt)
- • To My Dear and Loving Husband
- • Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666
Brontë, Anne (1820-1849)
- • My Soul Is Awakened
Brontë, Emily (1818-1848)
- • Last Lines
- • The Old Stoic
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861)
- • Sonnet 43 — "How do I love thee?"
- • The Musical Instrument
Bryant, William Cullen (1794 - 1878)
- • October
Buddhism Videos (by others)
- • Chogyam Trungpa Interview Segment
- • Gudo Nishijima (1) The Life of Zen Monk Dogen
- • Gudo Nishijima (2) On Zen Monk Dogen
- • Gudo Nishijima (3) Zen Monk Dogen: Dogen In China
- • Gudo Nishijima - How to Practice Zazen
- • Gudo Nishijima: Interview with a Zen Buddhist Priest
- • Gudo Nishijima: The Meaning of Zazen
- • Miksang Photography
- • Milarepa movie trailer
- • Mipham - What About Me - "Music video"
- • Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche Visits Surmang Dutsi Til in Tibet
- • Steve Allen at Dragon Temple Crestone, Co.
- • The Mountain Seat Ceremony for Installing as Abbot Kijun Tenryu Steven Allen
- • Trungpa's Big "No!" - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
- • Working with a Kalyanamitra
- • Zen in China Today
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward (1803-1873)
- • When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies [01:41]
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
- • Winter: a Dirge
Burroughs, John — Hudson Valley Naturalist (1837-1921)
- John Burroughs - The complete texts of his published poetry
- • A March Glee
- • In October
- • June's Coming
- • My Own Shall Come to Me
- • The Bluebird
- • The Breath of Life — Intro
- • The Crow
- • The Patridge
- • The Song of the Toad
- • Waiting
Campbell, Joseph (1879-1944)
- • The Old Woman
Campbell, William Wilfred (1858 - 1918)
- • An October Evening
Carroll, Lewis [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898)
- • The Jabberwocky v1
- • The Jabberwocky v2 (Brooklyn version)
Cather, Willa (1876-1947)
- • A Likeness - Portrait Bust of an Unknown, Capitol, Rome [03:19] Temp link...
Challing, John
- • A Rhyme for Christmas
Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904)
- — iTunes Chekhov Podcast —
- • A Problem - 20:30
- • A Story Without a Title - 12:04
- • After the Theatre - 08:45
- • An Enigmatic Nature - 07:41
- • In the Graveyard - 07:23
- • Love - 18:15
- • Panic Fears - 16:51
- • The Album - 06:29
- • The Bird Market - 11:48
- • The Chemist's Wife - 15:05 (read with Jodi Krangle)
- • The Gardener's Story
- • The Student - 12:11
Chopin, Kate (1850-1904)
- — iTunes Chopin Podcast —
- • A Blind Man - 05:34
- • A Harbinger - 03:15
- • A Reflection - 02:24
- • A Respectable Woman - 10:40
- • An Idle Fellow - 03:07
- • Doctor Chevalier's Lie - 03:21
- • Emancipation: A Life Fable - 03:25
- • Juanita - 05:43
- • Ripe Figs - 02:51
- • The Kiss - 08:22
- • The Night Came Slowly - 02:56
- • The Storm - 14:10
- • The Story of an Hour - 08:02
Clare, John (1793-1864)
- • I Am!
- • Mouse's Nest
- • Schoolboys in Winter
- • The Instinct of Hope
- • To John Clare
Clive, Carolyn (1801-1873)
- • Old Age
Cloud Mountain Podcasts
- • CloudMountain Podcast 001: Announcing Pound's Cathay
- • CloudMountain Podcast 002: Musings and 3 poems by E. E. Cummings
- • CloudMountain Podcast 003: "Election Day" by M. Horowitz
- • CloudMountain Podcast 004: Short story by Lev Tolstoy
- • CloudMountain Podcast 005: Carroll, Whitman, Dickinson…
- • CloudMountain Podcast 006: "Strippin' the Hipster" [Explicit] by M. Horowitz
- • CloudMountain Podcast 007: "Poetry Is" by M. Horowitz
- • CloudMountain Podcast 008: "Bush" by M. Horowitz
- • CloudMountain Podcast 009: "Myth" by Mikhail Horowitz
- • CloudMountain Podcast 010: "Black Hole" by M. Horowitz
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1884)
- • Frost at Midnight
Cook, Eliza (1818-1889)
- • Don't Tell the World that You're Waiting for Me
Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
- • The Trees in the Garden Rained Flowers
- • Unwind the Riddle
- • War Is Kind — ver. 1
- • War Is Kind — ver. 2
Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)
- • Adventure
- • The Lonely Death
- • The Mourner
- • To the Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window
Crompton, Richmal (1890-1969)
- • The Christmas Present
Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894-1962)
- • Buffalo Bill 's
- • it may not always be so;and i say
- • it's just like a coffin's ◊
- • little tree
- • nobody loses all the time
- • O sweet spontaneous
- • Picasso ◊
- • raise the shade ◊
- • the sky was
Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)
- • Ulysses and the Siren
Davies, Mary Carolyn (1888-1966?)
- • Cloistered
De La Mere, Walter
- • Ophelia
Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982)
- • In August
- • Magalosaurus
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
- • Becasue I Could Not Stop for Death
- • I Died for Beauty
- • I'm Nobody (alt text v1) ◊
- • I'm Nobody (alt text v2) ◊
- • I'm Nobody v1
- • I'm Nobody v2
- • I'm Nobody v3
- • Indian Summer
- • Light Exists in Spring
- • Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant
- • The Waking Year
- • What Soft Cerubic Creatures
- • Word Made Flesh
Dolittle, Hilda [H. D.] (1886-1961)
- • Circe
- • Heat
- • Orchard
- • Priapus: Keeper of Orchards
- • Sea Rose
- • Why Have You Sought
Doyle, Arthur Conon (1859-1930)
- • A Parable
Drake, Alan (1945- )
- • Blaustrumpf [02:06]
- • Challenge To Buddhist Would-Be Poets
- • Voiceover Demo: Characterization Narrations
- • Voiceover Demo: Commercial Narration
- • Voiceover Demo: The Life of the Buddha
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906)
- • An Old-Time Christmas [10:14]
- • October
- • Sympathy
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
- • April
- • Berrying
- • Brahma (see Andrew Lang's parody below)
- • Compensation
- • Each and All
- • Eros
- • Fable
- • Fate
- • Forebearance
- • Hamatreya
- • House, The
- • Humble-Bee
- • Hymn (Concord Hymn)
- • Letters
- • Merlin's Song
- • Mithridates
- • Nemesis
- • Ode
- • Park, The
- • Poet
- • Rubies
- • Seashore
- • Self-Reliance (Poem)
- • Shakespeare
- • Snow Storm
- • The Apology
- • The Problem
- • Thine Eyes Still Shined
- • Thine Eyes Still Shined v2
- • To Eva
- • Woodnotes 1
- • Woodnotes 2
- ° Last Honors to Emerson (Funeral Plans) - NY Times Article 1882
Finch, Anne , Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
- • The Spleen [Forthcoming]
- • There's No To-Morrow - 01:47 [Temp link...]
Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)
- • Rain in the Desert
Freneau, Phillip (1752-1832)
- • The Indian Burying Ground - 03:06
Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
- • Christmas Trees (A Christmas Circular Letter)
- • Fire and Ice
- • Going for Water
- • Good Hours
- • Good Hours v2
- • Mending Wall
- • My November Guest
- • The Pasture
- • The Road Not Taken - 1:35
- • The Sound of the Trees
Ginsberg, Louis (1895-1976)
- • April
Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievitch (1809-1852)
- • The Overcoat - Part 1 of 2 - 44:35
- • The Overcoat - Part 2 of 2 [Forthcoming]
- • The Overcoat - Summary from the NY Times on 20 Jan 1878 - 06:10
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730 - 1774)
- • Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
Hardy, Thomas (1840 - 1948)
- • Moments of Vision
- • Neutral Tones
Harte, Francis Bret (1836-1902)
- • From a Back Window [08:43] Temp link
- • The Christmas Gift That Came To Rupert (short story) [19:04]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1805-1864)
- • The British Matron (humorous essay)
- • The Ocean (poem)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889)
- • Spring and Fall
Horowitz, Mikhail (1950- )
- • Black Hole Hums Deepest Note Ever Detected ◊
- • Bush ◊
- • Election Day ◊
- • Myth ◊
- • Poetry Is ◊
- • Strippin' the Hipster [Explicit] ◊
Hovell-Thurlow, Edward
- • When in the Woods I Wander All Alone
Hoyt, Helen (1887-1972)
- • Ellis Park
- • The New-Born
Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
- • Question
- • The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
- • A Painful Case, from Dubliners - 28:23 [Temp link]
- • Ulysses - Chapter 17a
- • Ulysses - Chapter 17b
- • Ulysses - Chapter 17c
- • Ulysses - Chapter 17d
- • Ulysses - Short Sample from Chapter 17
Keats, John (1795-1821)
- • Ode to Autumn
- • Ode to Autumn v2
- • Ode to Melancholy
- • Sonnet To Sleep
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich (1894-1971)
- • Exchange 001 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 09 Nov 1960
- • Exchange 003 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 20 Jan 1961
- • Exchange 006 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 15 Feb 1961
- • Exchange 009 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 18 Apr 1961
- • Exchange 012 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 30 Apr 1961
- • Exchange 013 of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges: 06 May 1961
Lang, Andrew (1844 - 1912)
- • Brahma (see Emerson's original poem above)
Lanyer, Amelia (1569-1645)
- • from "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"
Lawrence, D. H. (1885-1930)
- • A Woman and Her Dead Husband
- • Bat
- • Everlasting Flowers [02:20]
- • New Year's Eve
- • Shadows ◊
Lee, Agnes (1869-1939)
- • Roman Doll
Li Bai [C: 李白; J: Rihaku] (701 - 762 C.E.)
- • Drinking Alone [Arthur Waley, trans.]
Li Po [李白]
- See Li Bai
LibriVox NaNoWriMo Project 2007
- • The Yellow Sheet, Chapter 1 by Alan Drake
Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)
- • Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
London, Jack (1876-1916)
- • The Story of Keesh - 24:18
Long Branch History
- • Along the Jersey Shore: Boardwalk for Long Branch - NY Times 1909
- • Long Branch Colored Men - NY Times 1872
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
- • Divina Commedia I
- • Evangeline - Intro
- • My Lost Youth
- • The Sound of the Sea
Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)
- • A Bather
- • In A Garden
- • Summer
- • The Lonely Wife
- • The Traveling Bear
- • Venus Transiens
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
- • The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Marvel, Andrew (1621-1678)
- • To His Coy Mistress
Masefield, John (1878 - 1967)
- • Sea Fever
Maupassant, Guy de (1859-1893)
- The Diary of a Madman - 13:29
May, Beulah
- • The Wanderer
Melville, Herman (1819 - 1891)
- • The Portent
Meredith, George (1828 - 1909)
- • A Ballad of Past Meridian
Mew, Charlotte (1869-1928)
- • On the Road to the Sea - 04:41
- • The Peddler
- • To a Child in Death
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892 - 1950)
- • The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Milne, A. A. (1882-1956)
- • Introduction to The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936)
- • The Inner Silence
- • The Wonder of It
Moore, Clement C. (1779-1863)
- • A Visit from Saint Nicholas
Moore, Marrianne (1887-1972)
- • Blake
Morris, William (1834 - 1896)
- • Near Avalon
Muir, John (1838-1914)
- • The Yosemite: Chapter 13, Early History of the Valley
Myths and Folktales
- Coyote and the Origins of Death - A Caddo Myth ◊
NY Times — Readings of Articles Historic (Public Domain)
- • Along the Jersey Shore — Boardwalk for Long Branch - 10 July 1909
- • Last Honors to Emerson [Preperations for a Simple Funeral…] Ralph Waldo Emerson
- • New Jersey Colored Men (Long Branch, NJ) - 1872)
- • To Save New-Jersey's Beach (Long Branch, NJ - 1893) — Forthcoming
O'Shaughnessy, Arthur William Edgar (1844-1881)
- • From "Ode"
Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter (1893-1918)
- • Dulce et Decorum Est - 02:20
- • Strange Meeting
Ozaki, Yei Theodora
- • The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child - 36:27 [Temp link...]
Performances
- • Tree Play
- • Tree Play (Intro)
Plunkett, Joseph Mary (1887-1916)
- • I See His Blood Upon the Rose - 01:16
Po Chü-i (772-846 C. E.)
- • Lazy Man's Song
Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)
- • The Bells
- • The Raven (Brooklyn version)
Poetry and Prose Source Text
- - Amy Lowell - Select Poems
- - Anne Bradstreet - Select Poems
- - Babette Deutsch - Select Poems
- - Charlotte Mew - Select poems
- - E. E. Cummings - Select Poems
- - Ezra Pound - Cathay (plus Selected Poems)
- - Henry David Thoreau - Select poems and prose
- - John Burroughs - Bird and Bough and other select poems
- - Wallace Stevens - 101 Public Domain Poems
- - William Carlos Williams - Al Que Quiere (1917)
- - William Carlos Williams - Select Poems
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
- • Solitude
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
- • An Immortality
- • Ancient Music
- • Francesca
- • N. Y.
- • Ortus
- • Speech for Psyche in the Golden Book of Apuleius
- • The Alchemist
- • The Seafarer
- • The Tea Shop
Pound, Ezra — Cathay
- • A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
- • Exile's Letter
- • Four Poems of Departure
- • Lament of the Frontier Guard
- • Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
- • Poem by the Bridge at Ten Shin
- • Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
- • Song of the Bowmen of Shu
- • South-Folk in Cold Country
- • The Beautiful Toilet
- • The City of Choan
- • The Jewel Stair's Grivance
- • The River Song
- • The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
- • To-En-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"
Robinson, Edwin Arlington (1869-1935)
- • House on the Hill
- • Karma (“Christmas was in the air…”)
Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830-1894)
- • Thread of Life
- • Up Hill
Sandburg, Carl (1879-1967)
- • Accomplished Facts
- • Jazz Fantasia
- • Lawyers Know Too Much
- • The Hangman At Home
Santayana, George (1849-1887)
- • I Would I Might Forget That I Am I
- • There May Be Chaos Still Around the World
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
- • Sonnet 018 — "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
- • Sonnet 116 — "Let me not to the marriage of true minds..."
- • Sonnet 130 — "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"
- • Under the Greenwood Tree
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
- • Ozymandias of Egypt
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816)
- • Had I A Heart for Falsehood Framed - 01:11 [Temp link...]
Sitwell, Edith (1887-1964)
- • Bells of Gray Crystal
- • By the Lake
Southwell, Robert (1561-1595)
- • The Burning Babe [Temp link]
Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)
- • A Load of Sugar-Cane
- • A Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Vacation
- • Anecdote of Canna
- • Anecdote of Men By the Thousand
- • Anecdote of the Jar
- • Another Weeping Woman
- • Apostrope of Vincinte
- • Autumn
- • Banal Sojourn
- • Bantam in Pine-Woods
- • Bird with the Coppery Clean Claws
- • Bowl
- • Carnet de Voyage
- • Cortage for Rosenbloom
- • Curtains in the House of the Metaphysician
- • Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
- • Earthly Anecdote
- • Explanation
- • Exposition of the Contents of a Cab
- • Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Humans Eat Hogs
- • From a Junk
- • From the Misery of Don Joost
- • Gubbinal
- • Home Again
- • Hybiscus Sleeping
- • Infanta Marina
- • Invective Against Swans
- • Life Is Motion
- • Meditation
- • Metaphors of a Magnifico v1
- • O, Florida, Venereal Soil
- • Outside the Hospital
- • Peter Quince at the Clavier
- • Phases
- • Place of the Solitairs
- • Ploughing on Sunday
- • Six Significant Landscapes
- • Song (There are great things…)
- • Tattoo
- • Tea
- • The Cuban Doctor
- • The Emperor of Ice Cream v1
- • The Emperor of Ice Cream v2
- • The Florest Wears Knee-Breeches
- • The Indigo Glass in the Grass
- • The Roaring Wind
- • The Silver Plough-Boy
- • The Snow Man
- • The Wind Shifts
- • Theory
- • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- • To the Roaring Wind
- • Valley Candle
- • Worms at Heaven's Gate
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
- • Christmas at Sea
- • Romance
Teasdale, Sara (1883-1933)
- • In a Subway Station
- • Snow Song
- • The Old Maid
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-1892)
- • Morte d'Arthur
- • Ring Our Wild Bells
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
- • "Dong, sounds the brass in the east"
- • "Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf" v1
- • "Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf" v2
- • "His steady sails he never furls"
- • "I knew a man by sight"
- • "I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind"
- • "Let such pure hate still underprop"
- • "Man's little acts are grand"
- • "My life has been a book I would have writ"
- • "Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion"
- • "The river swelleth more and more"
- • "Thou dusky spirit of the world"
- • "Upon the lofty elm tree sprays"
- • "What's the railroad to me?"
- • All Things Are Current Found
- • Carpe Diem
- • Conscience
- • Death Cannot Come Too Soon
- • Epitaph on the World
- • Fisher's Boy (varient)
- • Frienship's Steadfastness
- • He Knows No Change
- • Here Lies an Honest Man
- • I Am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied
- • I'm Thankful That My Life
- • Indeed, Indeed
- • Light-Winged Smoke
- • Love Equals Swift and Slow
- • Low Anchored Cloud
- • Men Say They Know Many Things
- • My Books I'd Fain Cast Off, I Cannot See
- • Nature
- • On Fields O'er Which
- • Pray, To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong
- • Rumors from an Aeolian Harp
- • The Fisher's Boy
- • The Inward Morning
- • The Moon
- • The Western Wind
- • Thou Dusky Spirit of the Wood
- • Though All the Fates (should prove unkind)
- • Waves Slowly Beat
Tolstoy, Leo Nikoleyevich (1828-1910)
- • How Much Land Does a Man Need? - 43:00
- • Little Girls Wiser Than Men - 05:05 [Temp link...]
- • The Coffee-House of Surat - 20:30
- • The Great Bear - 02:54 [Temp link...]
- ° What Men Live By and Other Tales - More recordings of Tolstoy
Turgenev, Ivan (1818-1883)
- • The Dog - 01:52
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
- • In Memoriam: Olivia Susan Clemens - 05:05
- • Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots [01:33]
Webb, Charles (c. 1678)
- • Against Indifference
Whalen, Philip (1923-2002)
- • The Bay Trees Were About To Bloom
Whitman, Sarah Helen Power (1803-1879)
- • To —
- • To Edgar Allan Poe
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
- • A Clear Midnight
- • Aboard At a Ship's Helm
- • Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals
- • And Not Yet You Alone
- • Broadway
- • Broadway Sights - Specimin Days
- • Come Up from the Fields Father
- • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- • Dalliance of the Eagles
- • Full of Life Now Compact Visitble
- • Germs
- • Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun
- • Grand Is the Seen
- • Had I the Choice
- • Here the Frailest Leaves of Me
- • I Am He That Aches with Love
- • I Hear It Was Charged Against Me
- • Mannahatta
- • Miracles
- • My Passion for Ferries from Specimin Days
- • Native Moments
- • Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes
- • Old Age's Ship and Crafter Death's
- • Others May Praise What They Like
- • Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd
- • Prairie Grass
- • Quicksand Years
- • Song of Myself - 01 - Sections 01-13 - 25:02
- • Song of Myself - 02 - Sections 14-26 - 34:06
- • Song of Myself - Section 01 - "I celebrate myself, and sing myself…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 02 - "Houses and rooms are full of perfumes…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 03 - "I have heard what the talkers are tallking…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 04 - "Trippers and askers surround me"
- • Song of Myself - Section 05 - "I believe in you my soul…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 06 - "A child said, What is the grass?"
- • Song of Myself - Section 07 - "Has any one supposed it lucky…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 08 - "The little one sleeps in its cradle…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 09 - "The big doors of the country barns…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 10 - "Alone far in the wilds…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 11 - "Twenty-eight young men bathe…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 12 - "The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 13 - "The negro holds firms the reins…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 14 - "The wild gander leads his flock…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 15 - "The pure contralto sings in the organ loft…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 16 - "I am of old and young, of the foolish…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 17 - "These are really the thoughts of all men…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 18 - "With music strong I come…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 19 - "This is the meal equally set…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 20 - "Who goes there? hankiering, gross…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 23 - "Endless unfolding of words of ages!"
- • Song of Myself - Section 27 - "To be in any form, what is that?"
- • Song of Myself - Section 29 - "Blind loving wrestling touch…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 30 - "All truths wait in all things…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 31 - "I believe a leaf of grass is no less…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 34 - "Now I tell what I knew in Texas…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 39 - "The friendly and flowing savage, who is he?"
- • Song of Myself - Section 44 - "It is time to explain myself…"
- • Song of Myself - Section 50 - "There is that in me…"
- • Song of Myself [Player]
- • That Shadow My Likeness
- • The Hand-Mirror
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- • This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful
- • This Moment Yearning and Thoughtful v2
- • What Think You I Take My Pen in Hand?
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- • World Below the Brine, The
- • Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
- • A Prelude
- • Appeal
- • Appology
- • Ballet
- • Canthara
- • Chicory and Daisies
- • Danse Russe
- • Dawn
- • Dedication for a Plot of Ground
- • El Hombre
- • Good Night
- • Gulls
- • Hero
- • In Harbor
- • Invitation
- • January Morning
- • Keller Gegen Dom
- • Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
- • Love Song ("Daisies are broken…")
- • Love Song ("I lie here thinking of you…")
- • Love Song ("Sweep the house clean...")
- • M. B.
- • Metric Figure
- • Mujer
- • Pastoral
- • Pastoral ("If I say I have heard voices...")
- • Pastoral ("The little sparows…")
- • Pastoral ("When I was younger…")
- • Portrait in Greys
- • Portrait of a Woman in Bed
- • Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart
- • Promenade
- • Riposte
- • Smell!
- • Spring Strains
- • Sub Terra
- • Summer Song ("Wanderer moon…")
- • Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
- • The Old Men
- • The Widows Lament (Alt) - 01:24
- • Tract
- • Virtue
- • Winter Sunset
- • Woman Walking
Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
- • Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour — 13 July 1798
- • The Inner Vision
- • To a Butterfly
Wyatt, Edith Franklin (1873-1958)
- • To F. W. ("You are my companion…")
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
- • Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
- • The Cold Heaven
- • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- • The Magi
- • The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
- • To a Child Dancing in the Wind
|- Readings by Ianna Drake Rosenthal
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- • Jazz Fantasia by Carl Sandburg
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