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O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman | Ep #38 80.6K views

No Man is an Island by John Donne | Ep #58 78.3K views

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning | Ep #1 50.3K views

The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Robert Browning | Ep #2 39.6K views

"She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron | Ep #8 38K views

Desiderata by Max Ehrmann | Ep #56 32.5K views

Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman | Ep #63 26.4K views

Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #29 25.8K views

The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #37 22.3K views

I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Allan Seeger | Ep #18 22.3K views

Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar | Ep #59 18.2K views

The Voice of the Rain by Walt Whitman | Ep #46 15.9K views

Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ep #3 14.2K views

Psalm 23 King James Version (KJV) | Ep #54 13.9K views

"Oh Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman | Ep #6 12.6K views

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman | Ep #42 10.7K views

"There is Another Sky" by Emily Dickinson | Ep #91 10.6K views

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye | Ep #55 9.6K views

Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte, PhD - PoetrySpoken COM 8.7K views

Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #22 8.7K views

Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #77 8.4K views

A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman | Ep #60 8.4K views

To a Stranger by Walt Whitman | Ep #45 8.3K views

One's Self I Sing by Walt Whitman | Ep #44 7.9K views

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 1 of 5 The Burial of the Dead | Ep #65 7.5K views

Reconciliation by Walt Whitman | Ep #64 7.2K views

I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman | Ep #61 7K views

Messy Room by Shel Silverstein | Ep #87 7K views

Miracles by Walt Whitman | Ep #62 6.2K views

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman | Ep #26 6.2K views

The Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke | Ep #9 5.9K views

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost | Ep #36 5.4K views

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson | Ep #15 5.2K views

Hamlet - "To Be or Not to Be" by William Shakespeare | Ep #105 5K views

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Ep #35 4.9K views

We Shall Fight on the Beaches by Winston Churchill | Ep #17 4.6K views

Invictus by William Ernest Henley | Ep #20 4.5K views

I wandered lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth PoetrySpoken.com 4.4K views

"Hope" is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson | Ep #19 4.4K views

I Dreamd in a Dream by Walt Whitman | Ep #41 4.3K views

Inferno Canto 1 by Dante Aleghieri Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #39 4.2K views

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas | Ep #21 4.1K views

Walden by Henry David Thoreau | Ep #27 4K views

"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer | Ep #12 3.9K views

Poets to Come by Walt Whitman | Ep #43 3.8K views

Excelsior by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Ep #104 3.8K views

Sea Fever by John Masefield | Ep #73 3.5K views

On Joy and Sorrow from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #99 3.4K views

As I Ponder'd in Silence by Walt Whitman | Ep #40 3.3K views

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 5 of 5 : What the Thunder Said | Ep #68 3.3K views

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth | Ep #92 3.2K views

If by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #24 3.2K views

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by William Shakespeare | Ep #76 3.1K views

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field | Ep #32 3.1K views

Afton Water by Robert Burns | Ep #28 3K views

"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats | Ep #5 2.9K views

Please Call Me By My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh | Ep #70 2.9K views

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not Proud by John Donne | Ep #136 2.8K views

The Hollow Men by T S Eliot | Ep #85 2.8K views

To My Wife With A Copy Of My Poems by Oscar Wilde | Ep #134 2.6K views

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day by Gerard Manley Hopkins | Ep #53 2.5K views

Whales Weep Not! by DH Lawrence read by Seth Hunter Perkins 2.4K views

The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare | Ep #156 2.4K views

Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby by Donald Barthelme | Ep #167 2.3K views

Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #148 2.2K views

Prayer by Maya Angelou | Ep #81 2.2K views

Song of Earendil by JRR Tolkien | Ep #102 2.2K views

The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ep #137 2.1K views

"A Dream within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #93 2K views

"Surrender Speech" of Chief Joseph | Ep #11 1.9K views

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost | Ep #71 1.8K views

The Yellow Bird by Tennessee Williams | Ep #133 1.8K views

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Audiobook) | Ep #69 1.7K views

14 On Journeys Through the States from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #120 1.7K views

"To You" by Walt Whitman | Ep #96 1.7K views

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #23 1.7K views

On Children from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #97 1.7K views

The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #4 1.6K views

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, PoetrySpoken.com, Ep 171 1.6K views

The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde | Ep #132 1.6K views

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 2 of 5 : A Game of Chess | Ep #66 1.6K views

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Ep #75 1.5K views

Inferno Canto 4 by Dante Aleghieri translated by Longfellow | Ep #50 1.5K views

PoetrySpoken.com - Studying Humanity by Speaking the Written Word 1.4K views

High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr | Ep #131 1.4K views

The Inferno by Dante Aleghieri translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Canto 3 | Ep #49 1.3K views

Bright Star by John Keats | Ep #57 1.3K views

8 Eidolons from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #113 1.3K views

Among School Children by William Butler Yeats PoetrySpoken com 1.3K views

The Waste Land by T S Eliot Canto 3 and 4 of 5 :The Fire Sermon and Death by Water | Ep #67 1.2K views

Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning | Ep #72 1.2K views

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae | Ep #30 1.2K views

1 Corinthians 13 | Ep #10 1.2K views

I Vow to Thee, My Country by Cecil Spring Rice 1.1K views

"No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats | Ep #94 1.1K views

I do not love you except because I love you by Pablo Neruda | Ep #169 1K views

The Blossom Never Knows by Dilip Kumar Roy | Ep #74 1K views

16 Me Imperturbe from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #121 1K views

Fire and Ice by Robert Frost | Ep #158 922 views

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ep #31 896 views

"The Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll | Ep #13 884 views

Sonnet 81 by Pablo Neruda | Ep #168 881 views

You and I have Learned by Leonard Nimoy | Ep #82 858 views

If you Forget Me by Pablo Neruda | Ep #164 852 views

4 In Cabin'd Ships at Sea from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #111 831 views

2 One's-Self I Sing Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #109 827 views

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e e cummings PoetrySpokenCOM 820 views

Jerusalem - And did those feet in ancient time - William Blake - PoetrySpoken.COM 820 views

Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling | Ep #33 819 views

A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement C Moore | Ep #25 790 views

22 Shut Not Your Doors from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #125 779 views

Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats 741 views

On Love from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #98 741 views

"Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ep #16 689 views

The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #145 684 views

Sonnet 133 by William Shakespeare | Ep #153 680 views

Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes Ep #165 672 views

"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein | Ep #88 666 views

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats | Ep #170 659 views

The Quarry by Karol Józef Wojtyła | Ep #83 656 views

1 Introduction Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #110 643 views

The Yipiyuk by Shel Silverstein | Ep #14 627 views

On Giving from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #100 620 views

"A Word to Husbands" by Ogden Nash | Ep #95 607 views

Tulips by Sylvia Plath | Ep# 160 573 views

Television by Roald Dahl | Ep #159 572 views

3 As I Ponder'd in Silence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #108 558 views

On Eating and Drinking from the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | Ep #101 548 views

Sonnet 34 by William Shakespeare | Ep #152 539 views

The Lullaby of a Lover by George Gascoigne | Ep #155 535 views

Her Pyre and His Tomb by Avleen Kaur | Ep #79 530 views

Howl, Part 1 by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #146 516 views

"The Tyger" by William Blake | Ep #86 506 views

19 I Hear America Singing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #123 490 views

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath | Ep #161 476 views

I Cannot Change as Others Do by Lord John Wilmot | Ep #140 443 views

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe | Ep #162 440 views

Dreams by Langston Hughes | Ep #163 440 views

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats | Ep #139 429 views

The Mountain by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #84 421 views

The Tyger by William Blake on PoetrySpoken.com 419 views

6 To A Historian Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #106 418 views

13 To The States from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #119 407 views

Transfiguration by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #150 388 views

The Art of War, Section 1, by Sun Tzu, read by Seth Hunter Perkins 383 views

7 To Thee Old Cause, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #112 376 views

Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen | Ep #52 374 views

11 Beginning My Studies from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #116 368 views

Sonnet 125 William Shakespeare | Ep #157 330 views

The Good-Morrow by John Donne | Ep #138 325 views

Go Slow by A P Herbert - PoetrySpokenCOM 317 views

23 Poets to Come from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #126 314 views

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell - PoetrySpoken COM 308 views

Ulysses revisted by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ep #89 308 views

24 To You from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #127 275 views

Elegy to the Jolliest Uncle, Who Lived by Avleen Kaur | Ep #80 266 views

Transfiguration 2.0 by Seth Hunter Perkins | Ep #151 265 views

Ode on Autumn by John Keats | Ep #135 262 views

15 To A Certain Cantatrice from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #118 261 views

5 To Foreign Lands Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #107 253 views

25 Thou Reader from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #128 237 views

9 For Him I Sing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #114 236 views

It Rains by Adam Crossley | Ep #51 235 views

10 When I Read the Book from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #115 233 views

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold | Ep #103 231 views

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair by Stephen C Foster 211 views

18 The Ship Starting from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #129 211 views

17 Savantism from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #122 206 views

Because it was Easier by Jude Wesley | Ep #142 190 views

12 Beginners from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #117 189 views

"Hopes and Dreams" from Missed Connections - by A...W... | Ep #90 181 views

20 What Place Is Besieged from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #130 171 views

Lover to His Lass by Duncan Campbell Scott | Ep #141 157 views

21 Still Though the One I Sing from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Ep #124 153 views

Howl 2 and 3 by Allen Ginsberg | Ep #147 140 views