Famous Poems: A New Anthology Of Lyrics And Ballads

Famous Poems: A New Anthology Of Lyrics And Ballads

LibriVox · Audiobook · 116 episodes

A collection of famous poems by various authors who wrote during the period 1550 to 1892, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning and more. - Summary by Krista Zaleski

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Episodes

Sir Patrick Spence, by Anonymous

Episode 1 · 2:56
The Lyke-Wake Dirge, by Anonymous

Episode 2 · 1:58
Cradle Song, by Anonymous

Episode 3 · 2:49
Fragment, by Anonymous

Episode 4 · 1:44
Song, by Anonymous

Episode 5 · 1:11
Epithalamion, by Edmund Spenser

Episode 6 · 21:18
To Sleep, by Sir Philip Sidney

Episode 7 · 1:18
Sonnet, by Michael Drayton

Episode 8 · 1:15
Where The Bee Sucks, by William Shakespeare

Episode 9 · 44s
Full Fathom Five, by William Shakespeare

Episode 10 · 1:00
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind, by William Shakespeare

Episode 11 · 1:05
When Daisies Pied And Violets Blue, by William Shakespeare

Episode 12 · 1:16
When Icicles Hang By The Wall, by William Shakespeare

Episode 13 · 1:17
O Mistress Mine, by William Shakespeare

Episode 14 · 59s
It Was A Lover And His Lass, by William Shakespeare

Episode 15 · 1:25
Take, O Take Those Lips Away, by William Shakespeare

Episode 16 · 54s
Hark ! Hark ! The Lark, by William Shakespeare

Episode 17 · 50s
Fear No More The Heat O' The Sun, by William Shakespeare

Episode 18 · 1:44
Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?, by William Shakespeare

Episode 19 · 1:13
When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes, by William Shakespeare

Episode 20 · 1:15
When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought, by William Shakespeare

Episode 21 · 1:33
That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold, by William Shakespeare

Episode 22 · 1:35
When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time, by William Shakespeare

Episode 23 · 1:16
Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds, by William Shakespeare

Episode 24 · 1:40
Th' Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame, by William Shakespeare

Episode 25 · 1:20
Follow Your Saint, Follow With Accents Sweet, by Thomas Campion

Episode 26 · 1:19
Kind Are Her Answers, by Thomas Campion

Episode 27 · 1:00
Now Winter Nights Enlarge, by Thomas Campion

Episode 28 · 1:09
Elizabeth Of Bohemia, by Sir Henry Wotton

Episode 29 · 1:28
Hymn To Diana, by Ben Jonson

Episode 30 · 1:23
To Celia, by Ben Jonson

Episode 31 · 1:14
The Ecstacy, by John Donne

Episode 32 · 3:43
The Dream, by John Donne

Episode 33 · 2:08
Pack Clouds Away, And Welcome Day, by Thomas Heywood

Episode 34 · 1:43
To Daffodils, by Robert Herrick

Episode 35 · 1:12
Corinna Going A-Maying, by Robert Herrick

Episode 36 · 3:52
Death's Final Conquest, by James Shirley

Episode 37 · 1:40
On A Girdle, by Edmund Waller

Episode 38 · 1:10
Ode On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity, by John Milton

Episode 39 · 2:13
The Hymn, by John Milton

Episode 40 · 10:37
At A Solemn Music, by John Milton

Episode 41 · 2:21
L'allegro, by John Milton

Episode 42 · 7:34
Il Penseroso, by John Milton

Episode 43 · 8:30
Lycidas, by John Milton

Episode 44 · 9:50
On His Deceased Wife, by John Milton

Episode 45 · 1:32
On His Blindness, by John Milton

Episode 46 · 1:21
On The Late Massacre In Piedmont, by John Milton

Episode 47 · 1:23
To Lucasta, Going To The Wars, by Richard Lovelace

Episode 48 · 1:05
To Althea, From Prison, by Richard Lovelace

Episode 49 · 1:34
The Wish, by Abraham Cowley

Episode 50 · 2:05
The Garden, by Andrew Marvell

Episode 51 · 3:19
An Ode, by Matthew Prior

Episode 52 · 59s
The Progress Of Poesy, by Thomas Gray

Episode 53 · 5:51
Hymn To Adversity, by Thomas Gray

Episode 54 · 2:26
Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard, by Thomas Gray

Episode 55 · 9:15
To Evening, by William Collins

Episode 56 · 2:43
Introduction To "Songs Of Innocence", by William Blake

Episode 57 · 1:22
The Tiger, by William Blake

Episode 58 · 1:29
Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw, by Robert Burns

Episode 59 · 55s
The Banks O' Doon, by Robert Burns

Episode 60 · 2:11
Ae Fond Kiss, by Robert Burns

Episode 61 · 2:02
A Red, Red Rose, by Robert Burns

Episode 62 · 1:22
Ode To Duty, by William Wordsworth

Episode 63 · 3:11
Ode On Intimations Of Immortality, by William Wordsworth

Episode 64 · 11:58
The Solitary Reaper, by William Wordsworth

Episode 65 · 1:43
The Daffodils, by William Wordsworth

Episode 66 · 1:35
My Heart Leaps Up, by William Wordsworth

Episode 67 · 54s
To Milton, by William Wordsworth

Episode 68 · 1:32
On Westminster Bridge, by William Wordsworth

Episode 69 · 1:19
By The Sea, by William Wordsworth

Episode 70 · 1:11
The World Is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth

Episode 71 · 1:17
The Rover, by Sir Walter Scott

Episode 72 · 1:14
Rebecca's Hymn, by Sir Walter Scott

Episode 73 · 1:54
Sound, Sound The Clarion, by Sir Walter Scott

Episode 74 · 30s
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Episode 75 · 27:24
Kubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Episode 76 · 3:26
Love, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Episode 77 · 4:01
Hester, by Charles Lamb

Episode 78 · 1:52
Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel, by Walter Savage Landor

Episode 79 · 39s
Dirce, by Walter Savage Landor

Episode 80 · 32s
Finis, by Walter Savage Landor

Episode 81 · 36s
Ye Mariners Of England, by Thomas Campbell

Episode 82 · 2:05
The War Song Of Dinas Vawr, by Thomas Love Peacock

Episode 83 · 1:36
She Walks In Beauty, by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Episode 84 · 1:24
To A Skylark, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 85 · 6:05
Ode To The West Wind, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 86 · 5:23
To Night, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 87 · 2:14
The Poet's Dream, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 88 · 56s
The Invitation, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 89 · 3:45
Hymn To The Spirit Of Nature, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Episode 90 · 1:29
Sonnet, by John Keats

Episode 91 · 1:08
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, by John Keats

Episode 92 · 1:19
La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by John Keats

Episode 93 · 2:44
Ode To Autumn, by John Keats

Episode 94 · 2:16
Ode To A Nightingale, by John Keats

Episode 95 · 5:18
Ode On A Grecian Urn, by John Keats

Episode 96 · 3:34
The Bridge Of Sighs, by Thomas Hood

Episode 97 · 3:18
Dream Pedlary, by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Episode 98 · 2:06
A Musical Instrument, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Episode 99 · 2:16
Grief, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Episode 100 · 1:14
To Helen, by Edgar Allan Poe

Episode 101 · 4:34
The Lady Of Shalott, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Episode 102 · 9:22
The Lotos Eaters, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Episode 103 · 9:51
St Agnes' Eve, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Episode 104 · 2:16
Come Down, O Maid, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Episode 105 · 2:28
The Year's At The Spring, by Robert Browning

Episode 106 · 40s
You'll Love Me Yet, by Robert Browning

Episode 107 · 58s
The Lost Mistress, by Robert Browning

Episode 108 · 1:26
The Last Ride Together, by Robert Browning

Episode 109 · 6:46
Home-Thoughts From Abroad, by Robert Browning

Episode 110 · 1:33
The Sands Of Dee, by Charles Kingsley

Episode 111 · 1:47
Say Not The Struggle Nought Availeth, by Arthur Hugh Clough

Episode 112 · 1:14
The Forsaken Merman, by Matthew Arnold

Episode 113 · 6:31
Requiescat, by Matthew Arnold

Episode 114 · 1:09
The Scholar Gipsy, by Matthew Arnold

Episode 115 · 15:36
Heraclitus, by William Cory

Episode 116 · 1:01