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Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson & Walt Whitman

Classic American Poetry

Read by Garrick Hagon, Liza Ross, William Hootkins, Kate Harper, James Goode & Alibe Parsons

unabridged

The United States themselves are, essentially, the greatest poem’ said Walt Whitman. Here are the much-loved examples of the free spirit of America in all its glory.

Running Time: 2 h 32 m

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Digital ISBN:	978-962-954-636-6
Cat. no.:	NA219812
Download size:	37 MB
Produced by:	Garrick Hagon and Nicolas Soames
Edited by:	Beth Hammond
Compiled by:	Garrick Hagon
BISAC:	POE000000
Released:	September 2004

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Anne Bradstreet: The Author to her Book
Edward Taylor: Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Anonymous: Navajo Mountain Song
Philip Freneau: The Indian Student
Philip Freneau: The Wild Honeysuckle
Francis Scott Key: The Star Spangled Banner
William Cullen Bryant: The Prairies
Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Snow-Storm
John Greenleaf Whittier: Telling the Bees
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha from the Wooing: At the doorway of his wigwam
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My Lost Youth
Edgar Allan Poe: A Dream within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides
Jones Very: The Indian’s Retort
Henry David Thoreau: Sic Vita
Henry David Thoreau: Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong
Julia Ward Howe: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Herman Melville: The Martyr
Walt Whitman: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
James Russell Lowell: Science and Poetry
Anonymous: Frankie and Johnny
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman: An upper chamber in a darkened house
Emily Dickinson: A narrow fellow in the grass
Emily Dickinson: My life closed twice before its close
Emily Dickinson: I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson: Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson: I like to see it lap the miles
Emily Dickinson: The wind begun to rock the grass
Frances E W Harper: Bury Me in a Free Land
Sydney Lanier: The Stirrup-Cup
Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus
Anonymous: I sometimes think I’d rather crow
Stephen Crane: A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
Stephen Crane: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Sympathy
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt: A Lesson in a Picture
Edward Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost: The Death of the Hired Man
Amy Lowell: Meeting-House Hill
Carl Sandburg: Chicago
Carl Sandburg: They all Want to Play Hamlet
Vachel Lindsay: The Flower-fed Buffaloes
Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens: Peter Quince at the Clavier
Elinor Wylie: Wild Peaches
Elinor Wylie: Pretty Words
Robinson Jeffers: Hurt Hawks
Alan Seeger: Rendezvous
Edna St Vincent Millay: What my lips have kissed, and where, and why
Dorothy Parker: De Profundis
Dorothy Parker: Resumee
Dorothy Parker: General Review of the Sex Situation
E E Cummings: anyone lived in a pretty how town
E E Cummings: somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
Stephen Vincent Benet: American Names
Langston Hughes: Theme for English B
Langston Hughes: Trumpet Player: 52nd Street
Ogden Nash: You Bet Travel is Broadening
Howard Nemerov: September, the First Day of School
Alice Walker: How Poems Are Made/A Discredited View