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The Norton Anthology of Poetry has provided a web companion with several poems read aloud. Here is their homepage where you can find several additional resources. Below are links to the poems on their site. Click on the links to go to their site, and then click on the speaker beside the text of each poem to hear it read aloud. You’ll need QuickTime for the audio player to work.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
Sir Patrick Spens Early Modern Ballads
Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 1542) They Flee from Me
Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) When I Was Fair and Young
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) Sonnet 75
Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Sonnet 146
John Donne (1572 – 1631) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743 – 1825) The Rights of Woman
William Blake (1757 – 1827) London
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) Kubla Khan
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Ulysses
Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) #712
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Easter 1916
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) Sunday Morning
William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963) This Is Just to Say
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) Poetry
Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) Dulce Et Decorum Est
Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) The Weary Blues
W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973) In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) Fern Hill
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) We Real Cool
Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997) Tenebrae
Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Diving into the Wreck
Derek Walcott (b. 1930) A Far Cry from Africa
Eavan Boland (b. 1944) That the Science of Cartography Is Limited
Rita Dove (b. 1952) Parsley
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) Persimmons
Click here to see a downloadable unit study from CurrClick about Robert Louis Stevenson. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
e-text for From a Railway Carriage
The Whole Duty of Children e-text
e-text for Young Night Thought
Read this poem and others by John McCrae
In Flanders Field by John McCrae
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The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
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Click here to see a downloadable lapbook about Paul Revere.
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22 – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; John Barelycorn; A Life on the Ocean Wave
55 – Abide With Me; Lead, Kindly Light; The Last Rose of Summer; Annie Laurie
56 – The Ship of State; America; The Landing of the Pilgrims
This entire book, with 8 hours of poetry, is available on My Audio School with a subscription. There are many well-known poems in this book, and most are short enough for a child to memorize.
e-text for Because I could not stop for Death
Will there really be a Morning?
There is no Frigate like a Book
If I can stop one heart from breaking
There’s a Certain Slant of Light
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