Poems We All Love


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This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but will resonate with all poetry lovers, and convey sentiments of hope and inspiration. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 52 min)

Chapters

Introduction 2:02 Read by Larry Wilson
Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt 1:43 Read by Alan Mapstone
"There are loyal hearts..." 1:07 Read by MorphineLolly
Press On by Park Benjamin 1:20 Read by tshoes76
Daffodils by William Wordsworth 1:36 Read by AliceStein
Serenity by Lord Byron 0:26 Read by Anthony Will
Onward by Arthur Cleveland Coxe 1:24 Read by Larry Wilson
To Live by William Cullen Bryant 1:17 Read by Phoenix Quitse
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1:36 Read by Phoenix Quitse
"Wouldst shape a noble kife?" by Goethe and "Though to-day may mot fulfill" by … 1:34 Read by Phoenix Quitse
At the End of all Desire by Swinburne 1:44 Read by Alan Mapstone
Judge Not by Adelaide A. Proctor 1:20 Read by Nathan Rausch
Be Strong? by Maltbie Davenport Babcock 0:52 Read by Nathan Rausch
"Who looks to heaven..." by Henry Van Dyke 0:28 Read by Nathan Rausch
Where Ignorance Is Bliss by Thomas Gray 0:50 Read by Amanda Bationaud
The Brave at Home by Thomas Buchanan Read 2:16 Read by Phoenix Quitse
Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott 1:03 Read by Madison Hackman
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood 1:52 Read by Madison Hackman
"Be though the rainbow..." by Byron and "Action" by Shakespeare 1:27 Read by Phoenix Quitse
"Westward the star of empire..." 0:43 Read by Stefan Von Blon
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America 2:08 Read by Phoenix Quitse
The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow 0:56 Read by Violeta Umi
"The summer vanishes..." 0:38 Read by Violeta Umi
Courage by Thomas F. Porter and "All is of God" by John G. Whittier 2:45 Read by Phoenix Quitse
Loss of the Royal George by W. Cowper 1:37 Read by Larry Wilson
Character by Emerson 0:37 Read by kevinHolm
O, Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman 2:18 Read by Alan Mapstone
Forbearance by Emerson 0:40 Read by kevinHolm
L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling 1:45 Read by Alan Mapstone
"If you and I..." 0:33 Read by kevinHolm
Pippa's Song by Robert Browning 0:31 Read by ShrimpPhish
Song by Aubrey de Vere 1:52 Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
"The Common Problem..." by Browning 0:52 Read by David Lawrence
At Nightfall by Charles Harrison Towne 0:37 Read by Anthony Will
"Ah, be not false" by Richard Watson Gilder 0:35 Read by Anthony Will
"Let us love so well" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and My Creed by Alice Creed 2:11 Read by emmaweigham
Victory by Ellsworth Kaye and A Prayer by Amora Fitch 1:20 Read by Bruce Kachuk
A Psalm of Life by H. W. Longfellow 2:06 Read by Anita Hibbard
"High thoughts and noble in all lands" by Richard Burton 1:01 Read by Phoenix Quitse
"So I will trudge with heart elate" by Alice Cary 0:45 Read by Phoenix Quitse
Service by Whittier 1:47 Read by Phoenix Quitse
"Whichever way the wind doth blow" by Caroline A. Mason 0:46 Read by Phoenix Quitse
Faith by Tennyson 1:32 Read by Phoenix Quitse
The World Over by Lowell 0:31 Read by Pleb
It's Raining Violets by Robert Loveman 0:53 Read by ShrimpPhish
Action by Omar Khayyam 0:33 Read by jenno
"Westward the star of empire takes its way" by George Bishop Berkeley 0:34 Read by jenno
Clear the Way by Charles Mackay 1:48 Read by Pleb
"If you have gracious words to say" 0:42 Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
How Sleep the Brave by William Collins 1:00 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Warren's Address by John Pierpont 1:42 Read by Ellies
Worth by Alexander Pope 1:20 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2:49 Read by Alan Mapstone
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson 0:46 Read by AliceStein
"He taught us" by John Ruskin and The Task of Happiness by Robert Louis Stevens… 1:22 Read by Amanda Bationaud
Three Kinds of Courage by Roy Farrell Greene 0:54 Read by emmaweigham
Friendship by Emerson 1:06 Read by ShrimpPhish
"O! joyous Day! O! Smile of God" by Thomas Augustin Daly 0:46 Read by Ellies
Friends by James Montgomery 0:53 Read by Pleb
"We just shake hands at meeting" by Gerald Massey 0:50 Read by emmaweigham
The Rosary of my Years by Father Ryan 2:18 Read by Nichole Evans
Mercy by Shakespeare 1:20 Read by Larry Wilson
Haste Not, Rest Not by Goethe 1:45 Read by Alan Mapstone
Freedom by James Russell Lowell 0:35 Read by Nathan Rausch
Character of a Happy Life by Sir N. Wotton 1:51 Read by emmaweigham
The Splendor Falls by Alfred Tennyson 1:53 Read by Alan Mapstone
Lead Kindly Light by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman 1:41 Read by Alan Mapstone
The Rosary 0:56 Read by Nichole Evans
The Spring of Love by Stopford A. Brooks 0:45 Read by Emma Donaldson
Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell 2:13 Read by emmaweigham
Opportunity by John James Ingalls 1:15 Read by Bruce Kachuk
"The star of the unconquered will" by H. W. Longfellow 0:31 Read by Hannah
Service by John Milton 1:08 Read by Larry Wilson
When the Birds go North Again by Ella Higginson 1:18 Read by AliceStein
Balancing by Wilbur D. Nesbit and "Believe not each accusing tongue" by Sheridan 0:42 Read by Emma Donaldson
The Inevitable by Sarah Knowles Bolton 1:03 Read by Larry Wilson
Sympathy by Sir Thomas N. Talfourd 1:35 Read by emmaweigham
Come Good or Evil by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Then let us smile" 0:59 Read by Nathan Rausch
Resolve by Charlotte Perkins Stetson 1:03 Read by AliceStein
The Sluggard by Isaac Watts 2:01 Read by Alan Mapstone
Crossing the Bar by Tennyson 0:58 Read by Larry Wilson
Young and Old by Charles Kingsley 1:06 Read by Thomas White
"Yes, they whose feet..." by Edwin Markham 1:05 Read by emmaweigham
When in Disgrace by Shakespeare and "But in the mud . . ." by Ralph Waldo Emers… 1:22 Read by Nathan Rausch
Mizpah by Julia A. Baker 2:08 Read by docdlmartin
Twenty Years Ago by A. J. Gault 3:06 Read by docdlmartin
"'Tis not the weight of jewel or plate..." 0:43 Read by docdlmartin