Content Notes: CD 1. The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- Upon a spider catching a fly / Edward Taylor -- Navajo mountain song / Anonymous -- The Indian student ; The wild honeysuckle / Philip Freneau -- The star-spangled banner / Francis Scott Key -- The prairies / William Cullen Bryant -- The snow-storm / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Telling the bees / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The song of Hiawatha from The wooing : At the doorway of his wigwam ; My lost youth / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- A dream within a dream ; Annabel Lee ; To Helen ; The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The Indian's retort / Jones Very -- Sic vita ; Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong / Henry David Thoreau -- The battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- The martyr / Herman Melville -- Out of the cradle endlessly rocking / Walt Whitman.
Content Notes: CD 2. Science and poetry / James Russell Lowell -- Frankie and Johnny / Anonymous -- An upper chamber in a darkened house / Frederick Goddard Tuckerman -- A narrow fellow in the grass ; My life closed twice before its close ; I taste a liquor never brewed ; Because I could not stop for death ; I like to see it lap the miles ; The wind begun to rock the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Bury me in a free land / Frances E.W. Harper -- The stirrup-cup / Sydney Lanier -- The new Colossus / Emma Lazarus -- I sometimes think I'd rather crow / Anonymous -- A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices ; Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane -- Sympathy / Paul Lawrence Dunbar -- A lesson in a picture / Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt -- Miniver Cheevy / Edward Arlington Robinson -- The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Meeting-House Hill / Amy Lowell -- Chicago ; They all want to play Hamlet / Carl Sandburg -- The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay -- The emperor of ice-cream ; Peter Quince at the clavier / Wallace Stevens -- Wild peaches ; Pretty words / Elinor Wylie -- Hurt hawks / Robinson Jeffers -- Rendezvous / Alan Seeger -- What my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- De profundis ; Resumee ; General review of the sex situation / Dorothy Parker -- Anyone lived in a pretty how town ; Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond / E.E. Cummings -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benet -- Theme for English B ; Trumpet player : 52nd Street / Langston Hughes -- You bet travel is broadening / Ogden Nash -- September, the first day of school / Howard Nemerov -- How poems are made/A discredited view / Alice Walker.
Notes: Poetry.
Compact disc.
Duration: 2:31:41.
Program notes on container insert.
22
Processing Request
No Comments.