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Performed by Alexander Scourby, Bramwell Fletcher, and Nancy Wickwire - Unabridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 2 hours, 20 minutes

Publisher, Audio Partners (April 1992)

An anthology of classic poetry from 39 British and American poets.

Anonymous Early Song: The Cuckoo Song
Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt
Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage
Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella
Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?, Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds, Sonnet 129 - Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Thomas Campion: When to Her Lute Corina Sings, Rose-cheeked Laura, There is a Garden in Her Face
John Dunne: Song - Go and catch a falling star, The Sun Rising, Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud
Ben Johnson: Song: To Celia
Robert Herrick: The Argument of His Book, Delight in Disorder, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time, Upon Julia’s Clothes
George Herbert: The Collar, The Pulley, Love (III)
John Milton: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness
John Suckling: Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover?, Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover
Richard Lovelace: To Althea, from Prison
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love
Henry Vaughan: The Retreat
John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake: from Poetical Sketches, Song, from Songs of Innocence, Introduction, The Lamb, from Songs of Experience, The Tyger
Robert Burns: To Mouse, A Red, Red Rose
William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, My Heart Leaps Up, The World Is Too Much With Us
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan
George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55)
John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Bright Star
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn, The Rhodora
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43
Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen, The City in the Sea, Annabel Lee
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Songs from The Princess, The Splendor Falls, Tears, Idle Tears, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle, Crossing the Bar
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, Home-Thoughts from Abroad
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31), O Captain! My Captain!
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
Emily Dickinson: 303 - The Soul selects her own Society, 986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Christina Rossetti: Up-Hill
Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Garden of Proserpine
Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty
Alfred Edward Housman: Lovliest of Tress, the Cherry Now, With Rue My Heart Is Laden
William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole