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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