This is a collection of familiar poems from beloved poets from Tennyson and Shakespeare to Longfellow and Emerson. Some are fragments but will resonate with all poetry lovers, and convey sentiments of hope and inspiration. - Summary by Larry Wilson
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Episodes
Introduction
Episode 0 · 2:02
Abou ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
Episode 1 · 1:43
"There are loyal hearts..."
Episode 2 · 1:07
Press On by Park Benjamin
Episode 3 · 1:20
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Episode 4 · 1:36
Serenity by Lord Byron
Episode 5 · 26s
Onward by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Episode 6 · 1:24
To Live by William Cullen Bryant
Episode 7 · 1:17
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Episode 8 · 1:36
"Wouldst shape a noble kife?" by Goethe and "Though to-day may mot fulfill" by P. Gerhardt
Episode 9 · 1:34
At the End of all Desire by Swinburne
Episode 10 · 1:44
Judge Not by Adelaide A. Proctor
Episode 11 · 1:20
Be Strong? by Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Episode 12 · 52s
"Who looks to heaven..." by Henry Van Dyke
Episode 13 · 28s
Where Ignorance Is Bliss by Thomas Gray
Episode 14 · 50s
The Brave at Home by Thomas Buchanan Read
Episode 15 · 2:16
Love of Country by Sir Walter Scott
Episode 16 · 1:03
Fair Ines by Thomas Hood
Episode 17 · 1:52
"Be though the rainbow..." by Byron and "Action" by Shakespeare
Episode 18 · 1:27
"Westward the star of empire..."
Episode 19 · 43s
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
Episode 20 · 2:08
The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow
Episode 21 · 56s
"The summer vanishes..."
Episode 22 · 38s
Courage by Thomas F. Porter and "All is of God" by John G. Whittier
Episode 23 · 2:45
Loss of the Royal George by W. Cowper
Episode 24 · 1:37
Character by Emerson
Episode 25 · 37s
O, Captain! My Captain! By Walt Whitman
Episode 26 · 2:18
Forbearance by Emerson
Episode 27 · 40s
L'Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
Episode 28 · 1:45
"If you and I..."
Episode 29 · 33s
Pippa's Song by Robert Browning
Episode 30 · 31s
Song by Aubrey de Vere
Episode 31 · 1:52
"The Common Problem..." by Browning
Episode 32 · 52s
At Nightfall by Charles Harrison Towne
Episode 33 · 37s
"Ah, be not false" by Richard Watson Gilder
Episode 34 · 35s
"Let us love so well" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and My Creed by Alice Creed
Episode 35 · 2:11
Victory by Ellsworth Kaye and A Prayer by Amora Fitch
Episode 36 · 1:20
A Psalm of Life by H. W. Longfellow
Episode 37 · 2:06
"High thoughts and noble in all lands" by Richard Burton
Episode 38 · 1:01
"So I will trudge with heart elate" by Alice Cary
Episode 39 · 45s
Service by Whittier
Episode 40 · 1:47
"Whichever way the wind doth blow" by Caroline A. Mason
Episode 41 · 46s
Faith by Tennyson
Episode 42 · 1:32
The World Over by Lowell
Episode 43 · 31s
It's Raining Violets by Robert Loveman
Episode 44 · 53s
Action by Omar Khayyam
Episode 45 · 33s
"Westward the star of empire takes its way" by George Bishop Berkeley
Episode 46 · 34s
Clear the Way by Charles Mackay
Episode 47 · 1:48
"If you have gracious words to say"
Episode 48 · 42s
How Sleep the Brave by William Collins
Episode 49 · 1:00
Warren's Address by John Pierpont
Episode 50 · 1:42
Worth by Alexander Pope
Episode 51 · 1:20
The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Episode 52 · 2:49
"If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson
Episode 53 · 46s
"He taught us" by John Ruskin and The Task of Happiness by Robert Louis Stevenson
Episode 54 · 1:22
Three Kinds of Courage by Roy Farrell Greene
Episode 55 · 54s
Friendship by Emerson
Episode 56 · 1:06
"O! joyous Day! O! Smile of God" by Thomas Augustin Daly
Episode 57 · 46s
Friends by James Montgomery
Episode 58 · 53s
"We just shake hands at meeting" by Gerald Massey
Episode 59 · 50s
The Rosary of my Years by Father Ryan
Episode 60 · 2:18
Mercy by Shakespeare
Episode 61 · 1:20
Haste Not, Rest Not by Goethe
Episode 62 · 1:45
Freedom by James Russell Lowell
Episode 63 · 35s
Character of a Happy Life by Sir N. Wotton
Episode 64 · 1:51
The Splendor Falls by Alfred Tennyson
Episode 65 · 1:53
Lead Kindly Light by John Henry (Cardinal) Newman
Episode 66 · 1:41
The Rosary
Episode 67 · 56s
The Spring of Love by Stopford A. Brooks
Episode 68 · 45s
Times Go by Turns by Robert Southwell
Episode 69 · 2:13
Opportunity by John James Ingalls
Episode 70 · 1:15
"The star of the unconquered will" by H. W. Longfellow
Episode 71 · 31s
Service by John Milton
Episode 72 · 1:08
When the Birds go North Again by Ella Higginson
Episode 73 · 1:18
Balancing by Wilbur D. Nesbit and "Believe not each accusing tongue" by Sheridan
Episode 74 · 42s
The Inevitable by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Episode 75 · 1:03
Sympathy by Sir Thomas N. Talfourd
Episode 76 · 1:35
Come Good or Evil by William Makepeace Thackeray and "Then let us smile"
Episode 77 · 59s
Resolve by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Episode 78 · 1:03
The Sluggard by Isaac Watts
Episode 79 · 2:01
Crossing the Bar by Tennyson
Episode 80 · 58s
Young and Old by Charles Kingsley
Episode 81 · 1:06
"Yes, they whose feet..." by Edwin Markham
Episode 82 · 1:05
When in Disgrace by Shakespeare and "But in the mud . . ." by Ralph Waldo Emerson