PoetrySpoken · 175 episodes

Poems, performed

Dramatic readings of classical and contemporary poetry. Whitman, Browning, Dickinson, Poe — recorded one at a time, mostly at night.

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175 of 175 episodes · 828.3K views all told

  1. O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman · Episode 38 80.6Kviews
  2. No Man is an Island John Donne · Episode 58 78.3Kviews
  3. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Robert Browning · Episode 1 50.3Kviews
  4. The Pied Piper of Hamelin Robert Browning · Episode 2 39.6Kviews
  5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron · Episode 8 38Kviews
  6. Desiderata Max Ehrmann · Episode 56 32.5Kviews
  7. Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman · Episode 63 26.4Kviews
  8. Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe · Episode 29 25.8Kviews
  9. The Wreck of the Hesperus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Episode 37 22.3Kviews
  10. I Have a Rendezvous with Death Allan Seeger · Episode 18 22.3Kviews
  11. Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar · Episode 59 18.2Kviews
  12. The Voice of the Rain Walt Whitman · Episode 46 15.9Kviews
  13. Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson · Episode 3 14.2Kviews
  14. Psalm 23 King James Version (KJV) Episode 54 13.9Kviews
  15. Oh Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman · Episode 6 12.6Kviews
  16. I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman · Episode 42 10.7Kviews
  17. There is Another Sky Emily Dickinson · Episode 91 10.6Kviews
  18. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Mary Elizabeth Frye · Episode 55 9.6Kviews
  19. Children Learn What They Live Dorothy Law Nolte, PhD 8.7Kviews
  20. Mandalay Rudyard Kipling · Episode 22 8.7Kviews
  21. Mandalay Rudyard Kipling · Episode 77 8.4Kviews
  22. A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman · Episode 60 8.4Kviews
  23. To a Stranger Walt Whitman · Episode 45 8.3Kviews
  24. One's Self I Sing Walt Whitman · Episode 44 7.9Kviews
  25. The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 1 of 5 The Burial of the Dead Episode 65 7.5Kviews
  26. Reconciliation Walt Whitman · Episode 64 7.2Kviews
  27. I Sit and Look Out Walt Whitman · Episode 61 7Kviews
  28. Messy Room Shel Silverstein · Episode 87 7Kviews
  29. Miracles Walt Whitman · Episode 62 6.2Kviews
  30. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman · Episode 26 6.2Kviews
  31. The Panther Rainer Maria Rilke · Episode 9 5.9Kviews
  32. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost · Episode 36 5.4Kviews
  33. The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson · Episode 15 5.2Kviews
  34. Hamlet - "To Be or Not to Be" William Shakespeare · Episode 105 5Kviews
  35. The Road Not Taken Robert Frost · Episode 35 4.9Kviews
  36. We Shall Fight on the Beaches Winston Churchill · Episode 17 4.6Kviews
  37. Invictus William Ernest Henley · Episode 20 4.5Kviews
  38. I wandered lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth 4.4Kviews
  39. "Hope" is the Thing with Feathers Emily Dickinson · Episode 19 4.4Kviews
  40. I Dreamd in a Dream Walt Whitman · Episode 41 4.3Kviews
  41. Inferno Canto 1 by Dante Aleghieri Translated Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Episode 39 4.2Kviews
  42. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas · Episode 21 4.1Kviews
  43. Walden Henry David Thoreau · Episode 27 4Kviews
  44. Casey at the Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer · Episode 12 3.9Kviews
  45. Poets to Come Walt Whitman · Episode 43 3.8Kviews
  46. Excelsior Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Episode 104 3.8Kviews
  47. Sea Fever John Masefield · Episode 73 3.5Kviews
  48. On Joy and Sorrow from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran · Episode 99 3.4Kviews
  49. As I Ponder'd in Silence Walt Whitman · Episode 40 3.3Kviews
  50. The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 5 of 5 : What the Thunder Said Episode 68 3.3Kviews
  51. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth · Episode 92 3.2Kviews
  52. If Rudyard Kipling · Episode 24 3.2Kviews
  53. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day William Shakespeare · Episode 76 3.1Kviews
  54. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field · Episode 32 3.1Kviews
  55. Afton Water Robert Burns · Episode 28 3Kviews
  56. The Second Coming William Butler Yeats · Episode 5 2.9Kviews
  57. Please Call Me By My True Names Thich Nhat Hanh · Episode 70 2.9Kviews
  58. Holy Sonnets: Death, be not Proud John Donne · Episode 136 2.8Kviews
  59. The Hollow Men T S Eliot · Episode 85 2.8Kviews
  60. To My Wife With A Copy Of My Poems Oscar Wilde · Episode 134 2.6Kviews
  61. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day Gerard Manley Hopkins · Episode 53 2.5Kviews
  62. Whales Weep Not! by DH Lawrence read Seth Hunter Perkins 2.4Kviews
  63. The Phoenix and the Turtle William Shakespeare · Episode 156 2.4Kviews
  64. Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby Donald Barthelme · Episode 167 2.3Kviews
  65. Footnote to Howl Allen Ginsberg · Episode 148 2.2Kviews
  66. Prayer Maya Angelou · Episode 81 2.2Kviews
  67. Song of Earendil JRR Tolkien · Episode 102 2.2Kviews
  68. The Snow Storm Ralph Waldo Emerson · Episode 137 2.1Kviews
  69. A Dream within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe · Episode 93 2Kviews
  70. "Surrender Speech" of Chief Joseph Episode 11 1.9Kviews
  71. The Road Not Taken Robert Frost · Episode 71 1.8Kviews
  72. The Yellow Bird Tennessee Williams · Episode 133 1.8Kviews
  73. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Audiobook) · Episode 69 1.7Kviews
  74. 14 On Journeys Through the States from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 120 1.7Kviews
  75. To You Walt Whitman · Episode 96 1.7Kviews
  76. Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling · Episode 23 1.7Kviews
  77. On Children from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran · Episode 97 1.7Kviews
  78. The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe · Episode 4 1.6Kviews
  79. The New Colossus Emma Lazarus, PoetrySpoken.com · Episode 171 1.6Kviews
  80. The Happy Prince Oscar Wilde · Episode 132 1.6Kviews
  81. The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 2 of 5 : A Game of Chess Episode 66 1.6Kviews
  82. Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Episode 75 1.5Kviews
  83. Inferno Canto 4 by Dante Aleghieri translated Longfellow · Episode 50 1.5Kviews
  84. PoetrySpoken.com - Studying Humanity Speaking the Written Word 1.4Kviews
  85. High Flight John Gillespie Magee Jr · Episode 131 1.4Kviews
  86. The Inferno by Dante Aleghieri translated Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Canto 3 · Episode 49 1.3Kviews
  87. Bright Star John Keats · Episode 57 1.3Kviews
  88. 8 Eidolons from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 113 1.3Kviews
  89. Among School Children William Butler Yeats 1.3Kviews
  90. The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 3 and 4 of 5 :The Fire Sermon and Death Water · Episode 67 1.2Kviews
  91. Porphyria's Lover Robert Browning · Episode 72 1.2Kviews
  92. In Flanders Fields John McCrae · Episode 30 1.2Kviews
  93. 1 Corinthians 13 Episode 10 1.2Kviews
  94. I Vow to Thee, My Country Cecil Spring Rice 1.1Kviews
  95. No Second Troy William Butler Yeats · Episode 94 1.1Kviews
  96. I do not love you except because I love you Pablo Neruda · Episode 169 1Kviews
  97. The Blossom Never Knows Dilip Kumar Roy · Episode 74 1Kviews
  98. 16 Me Imperturbe from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 121 1Kviews
  99. Fire and Ice Robert Frost · Episode 158 922views
  100. Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley · Episode 31 896views
  101. The Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll · Episode 13 884views
  102. Sonnet 81 Pablo Neruda · Episode 168 881views
  103. You and I have Learned Leonard Nimoy · Episode 82 858views
  104. If you Forget Me Pablo Neruda · Episode 164 852views
  105. 4 In Cabin'd Ships at Sea from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 111 831views
  106. 2 One's-Self I Sing Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 109 827views
  107. [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] e e cummings 820views
  108. Jerusalem - And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake 820views
  109. Danny Deever Rudyard Kipling · Episode 33 819views
  110. A Visit From Saint Nicholas Clement C Moore · Episode 25 790views
  111. 22 Shut Not Your Doors from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 125 779views
  112. On Love from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran · Episode 98 741views
  113. Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats 741views
  114. Kubla Kahn Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Episode 16 689views
  115. The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe · Episode 145 684views
  116. Sonnet 133 William Shakespeare · Episode 153 680views
  117. Dream Deferred Langston Hughes · Episode 165 672views
  118. Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein · Episode 88 666views
  119. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats · Episode 170 659views
  120. The Quarry Karol Józef Wojtyła · Episode 83 656views
  121. 1 Introduction Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 110 643views
  122. The Yipiyuk Shel Silverstein · Episode 14 627views
  123. On Giving from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran · Episode 100 620views
  124. A Word to Husbands Ogden Nash · Episode 95 607views
  125. Tulips Sylvia Plath · Episode 160 573views
  126. Television Roald Dahl · Episode 159 572views
  127. 3 As I Ponder'd in Silence Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 108 558views
  128. On Eating and Drinking from the Prophet Kahlil Gibran · Episode 101 548views
  129. Sonnet 34 William Shakespeare · Episode 152 539views
  130. The Lullaby of a Lover George Gascoigne · Episode 155 535views
  131. Her Pyre and His Tomb Avleen Kaur · Episode 79 530views
  132. Howl, Part 1 Allen Ginsberg · Episode 146 516views
  133. The Tyger William Blake · Episode 86 506views
  134. 19 I Hear America Singing from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 123 490views
  135. Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath · Episode 161 476views
  136. I Cannot Change as Others Do Lord John Wilmot · Episode 140 443views
  137. Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe · Episode 162 440views
  138. Dreams Langston Hughes · Episode 163 440views
  139. Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats · Episode 139 429views
  140. The Mountain Seth Hunter Perkins · Episode 84 421views
  141. The Tyger William Blake 419views
  142. 6 To A Historian Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 106 418views
  143. 13 To The States from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 119 407views
  144. Transfiguration Seth Hunter Perkins · Episode 150 388views
  145. The Art of War, Section 1, by Sun Tzu, read Seth Hunter Perkins 383views
  146. 7 To Thee Old Cause, Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 112 376views
  147. Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen · Episode 52 374views
  148. 11 Beginning My Studies from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 116 368views
  149. Sonnet 125 William Shakespeare Episode 157 330views
  150. The Good-Morrow John Donne · Episode 138 325views
  151. Go Slow A P Herbert 317views
  152. 23 Poets to Come from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 126 314views
  153. To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell 308views
  154. Ulysses revisted Alfred, Lord Tennyson · Episode 89 308views
  155. 24 To You from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 127 275views
  156. Elegy to the Jolliest Uncle, Who Lived Avleen Kaur · Episode 80 266views
  157. Transfiguration 2.0 Seth Hunter Perkins · Episode 151 265views
  158. Ode on Autumn John Keats · Episode 135 262views
  159. 15 To A Certain Cantatrice from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 118 261views
  160. 5 To Foreign Lands Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 107 253views
  161. 25 Thou Reader from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 128 237views
  162. 9 For Him I Sing from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 114 236views
  163. It Rains Adam Crossley · Episode 51 235views
  164. 10 When I Read the Book from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 115 233views
  165. Dover Beach Matthew Arnold · Episode 103 231views
  166. 18 The Ship Starting from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 129 211views
  167. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Stephen C Foster 211views
  168. 17 Savantism from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 122 206views
  169. Because it was Easier Jude Wesley · Episode 142 190views
  170. 12 Beginners from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 117 189views
  171. "Hopes and Dreams" from Missed Connections - A...W... · Episode 90 181views
  172. 20 What Place Is Besieged from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 130 171views
  173. Lover to His Lass Duncan Campbell Scott · Episode 141 157views
  174. 21 Still Though the One I Sing from Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman · Episode 124 153views
  175. Howl 2 and 3 Allen Ginsberg · Episode 147 140views