Poetry speaks: hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath

Ulysses / Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The bugle song" / Alfred Lord Tennyson

The charge of the light bridage / Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tithonus / Alfred Lord Tennyson

Crossing the bar / Alfred Lord Tennyson

My last duchess / Robert Browning

Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister / Robert Browning

Meeting at night / Robert Browning

How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix / Robert Browning

from Song of myself / Walt Whitman

Crossing Brooklyn ferry / Walt Whitman

Bivouac on a mountain side / Walt Whitman

The last invocation / Walt Whitman

America / Walt Whitman

The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats

Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats

The second coming / William Butler Yeats

Among school children / William Butler Yeats

Sailing to Bysantium / William Butler Yeats

Crazy Jane on the day of judgement / William Butler Yeats

Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 / William Butler Yeats

Christian Berard / Gretrude Stein

She bowed to her brother / Gertrude Stein

If I told him / Gertrude Stein

The oven bird / Robert Frost

The road not taken / Robert Frost

Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost

Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost

To Earthward / Robert Frost

The silken tent / Robert Frost

Come in / Robert Frost

Chicago / Carl Sandburg

Fog / Carl Sandburg

Grass / Carl Sandburg

Cool tombs / Carl Sandburg

107 from The people, yes / Carl Sandburg

Fabliau of Florida / Wallace Stevens

Bantams in Pine-Woods / Wallace Stevens

Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens

The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens

So-and-so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens

Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens

Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams

Spring and all / William Carlos Williams

To Elsie / William Carlos Williams

The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams

To a poor old woman / William Carlos Williams

A sort of a song / William Carlos Williams

The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound

Cantico del sole / Ezra Pound

In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound

XLV from The cantos / Ezra Pound

Garden / H. D.

Orchard / H. D.

Helen / H. D.

Oread / H. D.

from Helen in Egypt / H. D.

Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers

The purse-seine / Robinson Jeffers

The day is a poem (September 19, 1939) / Robinson Jeffers

Oh, lovely rock / Robinson Jeffers

Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers

Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom

Bells for John Whiteside's daughter / John Crowe Ransom

Painted head / John Crowe Ransom

The equilibrists / John Crowe Ransom

Dead boy / John Crowe Ransom

The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T. S. Eliot

La figlia che piange / T. S. Eliot

Journey of the magi / T. S. Eliot

Burnt Norton from Four quartets / T. S. Eliot

Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millary

First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink / Edna St. Vincent Millay

I shall forget you presently my dear / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies / Edna St. Vincent Millay

One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker

Resume / Dorothy Parker

News item / Dorothy Parker

Afternoon / Dorothy Parker

A pig's-eye view of literature / Dorothy Parker

The lady's reward / Dorothy Parker

In just- / E. E. Cummings

Love is a place / E. E. Cummings

May I feel said he / E. E. Cummings

Anyone lived in a pretty how town / E. E. Cummings

As freedom is a breakfastfood / E. E. Cummings

Pity this busy monster / E. E. Cummings

Medusa / Louise Bogan

The daemon / Louise Bogan

The sleeping fury / Louise Bogan

The dream / Louise Bogan

Song for the last act / Louise Bogan

An ex-judge at the bar / Melvin B. Tolson

Dark symphony / Melvin B. Tolson

Lambda / Melvin B. Tolson

O vocables of love / Laura (Riding) Jackson

Death as death / Laura (Riding) Jackson

Nothing so far / Laura (Riding) Jackson

Take hands / Laura (Riding) Jackson

The negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes

Mother to son / Langston Hughes

The wearty blues / Langston Hughes

I, too / Langston Hughes

Good morning / Langston Hughes

Harlem (2) / Langston Hughes

Luck / Langston Hughes

The trouble with women is men / Ogden Nash

Potrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash

I do, I will, I have / Ogden Nash

I must tell you about my novel / Ogden Nash

Laments for a dying language / Ogden Nash

O where are you going? / W. H. Auden

Funeral blues / W. H. Auden

As I walked out one evening / W. H. Auden

In memory of W. B. Yeats / W. H. Auden

Musee des beaux arts / W. H. Auden

If I could tell you / W. H. Auden

Bagpipe music / Louise MacNeice

Conversation / Louise MacNeice

Meeting point / Louise MacNeice

The British Museum reading room / Louise MacNeice

Star-gazer / Louise MacNeice

My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke

The waking / Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman / Theodore Roethke

The sloth / Theodore Roethke

In a dark time / Theodore Roethke

The fish / Elizabeth Bishop

The map / Elizabeth Bishop

The armadillo / Elizabeth Bishop

Crusoe in England / Elizabeth Bishop

One art / Elizabeth Bishop

In the waiting room / Elizabeth Bishop

Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass / Robert Hayden

Homage to the empress of the blues / Robert Hayden

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) / Robert Hayden

Words in the mourning time / Robert Hayden

Night feeding / Muriel Rukeyser

from Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser

The poem as a mask / Muriel Rukeyser

Waiting for Icarus / Muriel Rukeyser

Ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Ruckeyser

The star in the hills / William Stafford

Traveling through the dark / William Stafford

Passing remark / William Stafford

Saint Matthew and all / William Stafford

Report to a crazy horse / William Stafford

90 North / Randall Jarrell

The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell

Seele im raum / Randall Jarrell

Next day / Randall Jarrell

The ball poem / John Berryman

4 from The dream songs / John Berryman

14 from The dream songs / John Berryman

22 from The dream songs / John Berryman

"Sole watchman" from Eleven addresses to the lord / John Berryman

And death shall have no dominion / Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas

Among those killed in the dawn raid was a man aged a hundred / Dylan Thomas

In my craft or sullen art / Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

Skunk hour / Robert Lowell

Home after three months away / Robert Lowell

"To speak of woe that is in marriage" / Robert Lowell

For the union dead / Robert Lowell

Epilogue / Robert Lowell

A song in the front yard / Gwendolyn Brooks

Kitchenette building / Gwendolyn Brooks

We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks

The boy died in my alley / Gwendolyn Brooks

Speech to the young / Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry, a natural thing / Robert Duncan

The structure of rime 1 / Robert Duncan

Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan

The sentinels / Robert Duncan

Places, loved ones / Philip Larkin

The Whitsun weddings / Philip Larkin

Wild oats / Philip Larkin

This be the verse / Philip Larkin

The old fools / Philip Larkin

Come into animal presence / Denise Levertov

The secret / Denise Levertov

Talking to grief / Denise Levertov

A woman alone / Denise Levertov

Her sadness / Denise Levertov

Howl / Allen Ginsberg

A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg

America / Allen Ginsberg

Why I am not a painter / Frank O'Hara

Poem (hate is only one of many responses) / Frank O'Hara

The day Lady died / Frank O'Hara

Ave Maria / Frank O'Hara

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / Frank O'Hara

The truth the dead know / Anne Sexton

Her kind / Anne Sexton

The operation / Anne Sexton

For my lover, returning to his wife / Anne Sexton

Rumpelstiltskin / Anne Sexton

The idea of ancestry / Etheridge Knight

Hard rock returns to prison from the hospital for the criminal insane / Etheridge Knight

Belly song / Etheridge Knight

Dark prophecy: I sing of shine / Etheridge Knight

The violent space / Etheridge Knight

Tulips / Sylvia Plath

Morning song / Sylvia Plath

I am vertical / Sylvia Plath

Daddy / Sylvia Plath

Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath

Disc #1 includes selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Robinson Jeffers, John Crowe Ransom, T.S. Eliot.

Disc #2 includes selected poems by Edna St. Vincent Milay, Dorothy Parker, E.E. Cummings, Louise Bogan, Melvin B. Tolson, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Muriel Rukeyser.

Disc #3 includes selected poems by William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Dylan Thomas, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Duncan, Philip Larkin, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, Etheridge Knight, Sylvia Plath.