What's the Use of Poetry? by Richard Le Gallienne

25:20

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To the Spring: From 'Hymnes of Astræa, in Acrosticke Verse' by Sir John Davies

1:22

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To Mary Stuart by Pierre de Ronsard

3:10

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To the Lord-General Cromwell by John Milton

1:25

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O, Breathe Not His Name! (Robert Emmet) by Thomas Moore

0:59

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Charles XII: From 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Dr. Samuel Johnson

2:22

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Napoleon by Victor Hugo

2:41

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Napoleon: From 'Childe Harold,' Canto III by Lord Byron

6:02

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On the Monument erected to Mazzini at Genoa by Algernon Charles Swinburne

2:36

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George Washington by Anonymous

0:43

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Washington by James Russell Lowell

7:36

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Daniel Webster by Oliver Wendell Holmes

3:14

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William Lloyd Garrison by James Russell Lowell

3:26

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Henry Ward Beecher by Charles Henry Phelps

2:05

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Abraham Lincoln (Foully Assassinated April 14, 1865) by Tom Taylor

5:38

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O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

2:15

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On the Life-Mask of Lincoln by Richard Watson Gilder

1:19

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The Hand of Lincoln by Edmund Clarence Stedman

2:59

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Abraham Lincoln: From the Harvard Commemoration Ode, July 21, 1865 by James Rus…

4:23

Read by Craig Franklin

Albert, Prince Consort of England: From 'Idyls of the King' by Alfred, Lord Ten…

3:41

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To Virgil by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:46

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In a Copy of Omar Khayyám by James Russell Lowell

1:15

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To Madame de Sevigné (Playing Blind-Man's Buff) by Mathieu de Montreuil

0:46

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George Sand by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:19

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To Victor Hugo by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1:14

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On a Bust of Dante by Thomas William Parsons

3:09

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Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) by Edmund Gosse

3:08

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Sir Philip Sidney: From 'An Elegy on a Friend's Passion for His Astrophill' by …

1:34

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To the Memory of Ben Jonson by John Cleveland

1:22

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Ode to Ben Jonson by Robert Herrick

1:18

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On the Portrait of Shakespeare by Ben Jonson

0:59

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To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left …

4:28

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Shakespeare: From 'Prologue' by Dr. Samuel Johnson

1:10

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An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet, W. Shakespeare by John Milton

1:33

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Shakespeare by Hartley Coleridge

1:18

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Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:15

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Hierarchy of Angels by Thomas Heywood

1:04

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Under the Portrait of John Milton (Prefixed to 'Paradise Lost') by John Dryden

0:55

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To Milton ('London, 1802') by William Wordsworth

1:27

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Walton's Book of Lives: From 'Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' Part III by William Word…

1:23

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The Sonnet by William Wordsworth

1:14

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Camp-Bell (Charade) by Winthrop Mackworth Praed

1:45

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To Thomas Moore by Lord Byron

1:22

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Shelley by Alexander Hay Japp

1:19

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Memorabilia by Robert Browning

1:08

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Byron: From 'The Course of Time,' Book IV by Robert Pollok

3:06

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Macaulay as Poet by Walter Savage Landor

1:19

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On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford, for Naples by William Wor…

1:23

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To the Memory of Thomas Hood by Bartholomew Simmons

2:03

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Burns (A Poet's Epitaph) by Ebenezer Elliott

1:42

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Burns (On Receiving a Sprig of Heather in Blossom) by John Greenleaf Whittier

5:43

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To Benjamin Robert Haydon by John Keats

1:10

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On a Portrait of Wordsworth (By B.R. Haydon) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1:22

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Lost Leader by Robert Browning

3:47

Read by Craig Franklin

Memorial Verses (April, 1850) by Matthew Arnold

4:46

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From 'Wordsworth's Grave' by William Watson

2:00

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In Memory of Walter Savage Landor by Algernon Charles Swinburne

2:52

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A Welcome to 'Boz' (On His First Visit to the West) by W.H. Venable

4:44

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Dickens in Camp by Bret Harte

2:35

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Dickens by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:24

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To Thackeray by Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

1:03

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Tennyson by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1:52

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Lachrymæ Musarum (6th October, 1892) by William Watson

8:10

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Robert Browning by Walter Savage Landor

1:23

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The Burial of Robert Browning by Michael Field

2:32

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Joseph Rodman Drake (Died in New York, September, 1820) by Fitz-Greene Halleck

1:37

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Fitz-Greene Halleck by John Greenleaf Whittier

3:12

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Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner

2:41

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On the Death of Thomas Carlyle and George Eliot by Algernon Charles Swinburne

1:20

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Carlyle and Emerson by Montgomery Schuyler

1:08

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Emerson (Concord) by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge)

3:31

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Lowell on Himself: From 'A Fable for Critics' by James Russell Lowell

1:13

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Out from Behind This Mask: To Confront His Own Portrait for 'The Wound Dresser'…

2:47

Read by Adrian Stephens

Myself: From 'The Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

1:26

Read by Craig Franklin

Hawthorne by Edmund Clarence Stedman

1:54

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Hawthorne by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2:19

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Harriet Beecher Stowe by Paul Laurence Dunbar

1:18

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To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (On His Birthday, 27th February, 1867) by James R…

2:48

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Longfellow (In Memoriam) by Austin Dobson

1:33

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House by Robert Browning

2:31

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Art Criticism by Walter Savage Landor

1:12

Read by Craig Franklin

Anne Hathaway (To the Idol of My Eye and Delight of My Heart, Anne Hathaway) by…

2:59

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The Poet's Friend (Lord Bolingbroke): From 'An Essay on Man,' Epistle IV by Ale…

1:51

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A Bard's Epitaph by Robert Burns

1:50

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Chopin by Emma Lazarus

4:18

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The Prayer of Agassiz by John Greenleaf Whittier

4:38

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Kane (Died February 16, 1857) by Fitz-James O’Brien

6:06

Read by Jason in Panama