The poetry hall of fame collection

Disc one. Volume 1: St. Crispin's Day speech, King Henry V, Act IV, Sc. 3 / William Shakespeare

Gone / Carl Sandburg

Jazz poem / Carl W. Hines Jr.

Miss Helen Lang / Robert Hillyer

And one for my dame / Anne Sexton

Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt

The rime of the ancient mariner, part II / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The willing mistress / Aphra Behn

Summer with Monica, # 1 (excerpt) / Roger McGough

The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe

The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh

Modern declaration / Edna St. Vincent Millay

The betrothed (excerpt) / Rudyard Kipling

As I ponder'd in silence ; The artilleryman's vision (excerpt) / Walt Whitman

Disabled / Wilfred Owen

Aftermath / Siegfried Sassoon

Dear March-come in /Emily Dickinson

Scrapbook of a summer evening (excerpt) / Stephanie Simpson

Tree at my windonw ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost

The Canterbury Tales, Prologue (excerpt) / Geoffrey Chaucer

Peekaboo, I almost see you ; A drink with something in it / Ogden Nash

Authentic antique / Richard Armour

The discriminating pig / Anonymous

Paradise lost, Book VII (excerpt) / John Milton

I think continuously of those / Stephen Spender

Adonais (excerpt) / Percy Bysshe Shelley

The day is done / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Disc one. Volume 2: Sea fever / John Masefield

Amoretti, Sonnet 75, One day I wrote her name upon the Strand / Edmund Spenser

Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley

When I have fears that I may cease to be / John Keats

Sonnet CXVI, Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare

I dwell in possibility / Emily Dickinson

The altar / George Herbert

Song, On the lifting of the banner of the House of Buccleuch at a great football match on Caterhaugh (excerpt) / Sir Wlater Scott

To Satch / Samuel W. Allen

Mullion / A.P. Herbert

Cousin Caroline, Uncle Jed, Uncle Malcolm, Aunt Ermintude, Albert Robinson / Roger McGough

Epilogue to the satires, Dialogue II / Alexander Pope

The man with the hoe (excerpt) / Edwin Markham

To my dear and loving husband / Anne Bradstreet

True love / Judith Viorst

The quarrel / Conrad Aiken

Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Canto the second, XXXV, 'Tis an old lesson / Lord Byron

The applicant / Sylvia Plath

Visions of the daughters of Albion (excerpt) / William Blake

The vision of Sir Launfal, And what is so rare as a day in June? / James Russell Lowell

Patterns / Amy Lowell

For Aunt Sarah / Robert Lowell

Sonnet XLII, How do I love thee? / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Prospice / Robert Browning

3 translations of Ode XXXVII by Horace / William Cowper, Hartley Coleridge, Eugene Field

Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos / Lord Byron

Hero and Leander / Joseph S. Newman

When you are old / William Butler Yeats

Afterwards /Thomas Hardy

Spoon River anthology. The hill (excerpt) / Edgar Lee Masters

Text for today /Phyllis McGinley

sweet spring is your time / e.e. cummings

Goodbat Nightman / Roger McGough

Facade, Tarantella / Edith Sitwell.

Disc two. Volume 3: An evening walk (excerpt) ; Enough of climbing toil / William Wordsworth

Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish

The mannequins / Louis Simpson

The artist /William Carlos Williams

Teacher's vacation lament in the country / Alan Dugan

The princess. Part III, The splendor falls on castle walls / Alfred Lord Tennyson

Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson

To Helen / Edgar Allen Poe

Night journey /Theodore Roethke

Down the Mississippi / John Gould Fletcher

Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Robert Diesel / Jesse Stuart

Verses on the death of Dr. Swift / Jonathan Swift

Stephen Dowling Bots (excerpt) ; Hamlet's soliloquy/ Mark Twain

The rubaiyat (excerpt) / Omar Khayam ; translated by Edward FitzGerald

The river-merchant's wife. A letter / Rihaku (Li-Po) ; translated by Ezra Pound

In a steelworker's home / Yevgeny Yevushenko ; translated by John Updike

In the shelter / C. Day Lewis

A subaltern's love-song / Sir John Betjeman

Resolving doubts / William Dickey

Romance (excerpt) / Robert Louis Stevenson

Believe me if all those endearing young charms / Thomas Moore

There is a lady sweet and kind / Anonymous

Carry her over the water / W.H. Auden

All the things you are / Oscar Hammerstein

Brother, can you spare a dime / Edgar "Yip" Harburg

The king's breakfast / A.A. Milne

The owl and the pussycat / Edward Lear

The rainy day / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The song of Solomon II / Bible (King James version)

Couplets / Alexander Pope

Macbeth. Act V. Scene 5, Tomorrow and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Familiar lines / Anonymous.

Disc two. Volume 4: The charge ofthe Light Brigade / Alfred Lord Tennyson

As you like it. Act II. Scene 7, All the world's a stage / William Shakespeare

The menu / Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Happy the man / John Dryden

Slaves to London I'll deceive you / Peter Motteux

April birthday / Ted Hughes

Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake / William Wordsworth

Gus, the theatre cat / T.S. Eliot

Giraffes / N.H. Brettell

A night with a wolf / Bayard Taylor

Ah, are you digging my grave? / Thomas Hardy

Autumn at Taos /D.H. Lawrence

The old cowboy's lament / Robert V. Carr

Dusk / DuBose Heyward

Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold

Annus mirabilis / Phillip Larkin

Warning /Jenny Joseph

The old farmer and his young wife /Anonymous

The shape of things (excerpt) / Sheldon Harnick

Summer with Monica-#38 / Roger McGough

Mild the mist upon the hill / Emily Bronte

Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae / Ernest Dowson

Holy sonnets. Number 10, Death be not proud / John Donne

Elegy written in a country churchyard (excerpt) / Thomas Gray

Song / Christina Rossetti

Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas

Requiem / Robert Louis Stevenson

Under Ben Bulben-VI / William Butler Yeats

To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick

A red, red rose /Robert Burns

Go, lovely rose / Edmund Waller

One perfect rose / Dorothy Parker

King Richard II. Act III. Scene 2, Let's talk of graves, of worms, of epitaphs / William Shakespeare

My company. Part I /Herbert Read

Volunteer fireman / Phyllis McGinley

I dream a world / Langston Hughes

The tempest. Act IV. Scene 1, Our revels now are ended, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I / William Shakespeare.