• PRETTY GOOD POETRY

    John McCrae
    In Flanders Fields
    Unsolved
    The Night Cometh
    Then and Now
    Penance

    Alfred Noyes
    The Highwayman

    Robert Frost
    Fire and Ice
    Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening

    Rudyard Kipling
    If
    The Law of the Jungle (excerpt)

    Oliver Wendall Holmes
    The Deacon’s Masterpiece

    John Peale Bishop
    A Recollection

    Percy Bysshe Shelly
    Ozymandias

    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    Sonnet #30
    Spring

    Abraham Lincoln
    Letter to Mrs. Bixby (extraordinary prose)

    William Blake
    The Fly
    The Tyger

    T.S. Eliot
    The Hollow Men

    Omar Khayyam
    The Rubaiyat (excerpt-1)
    The Rubaiyat (excerpt-2)

    Duncan Campbell Scott
    The Forsaken
    Enigma

    Wendell Berry
    Do Not Be Ashamed

    Edith Nesbit
    The Despot

    Walt Whitman
    A Noiseless Patient Spider

    Carl Sandberg
    Languages

    Eric Idle
    All Things Dull and Ugly

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Nature

    William Cory
    Mimnermus in Church

    Don Imus*
    Plastic Jesus

    Francis William Bourdillon
    The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

    William Shakespeare
    Soliloquy from Hamlet

    Amy Levy
    Magdalen

    Hank Williams
    I’m So Lonesome I could Cry

    Aleksander Pushkin
    I Loved You

    Charles L. Williamson
    Flame Testing HAIKU
    Slippery Edges
    What If?
    Gossamer

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Brahma

    Jalaluddin Rumi
    It is Thee

    Emily Dickinson
    "Hope" Is A Thing With Feathers

    Joseph Conrad
    In Youth (poetic prose)

    William Ernest Henley
    Invictus

    Paul Lawrence Dunbar
    Life’s Tragedy

    Bliss Carman
    Earth Voices

    Emma Lazarus
    The New Colossus

    Everly Brothers (performed by)
    Let It Be Me (lyrics)

    Unknown
    Risk and Freedom

    William Butler Yeats
    The Mermaid

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