POETRY COLLECTION

 

 

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All the world’s a stage . . .                                                William Shakespeare

Alone                                                                                  Hermann Hesse

Apology to My Unborn (Def Poetry Jam) VIDEO           Bassey Ikpi

Apocalypse Now excerpt VIDEO

Ash and the Oak, The                                                       Louis Simpson

Asides                                                                                Paul Valery

As I Walked Out One Evening VIDEO                              W. H. Auden

The Ash and the Oak

At the Washing of My Son                                               Su Tung P’O

Ballad of the Landlord                                                      Langston Hughes

Base Details                                                                       Seigfred Sasoon

Base Stealer, The                                                              Robert Francis

Be with those who help your being                                author unknown

Because You Love Me                                                      C. S. Delany ?

Bicycle, The                                                                       Jerzy Harasymowicz

Black Panther, The                                                           John Hall Wheelock

Blast of Love, The                                                             Sappho

Blind Men and the Elephant, The                                    John Godfrey Saxe

Boat, A                                                                                Richard Brautigan

Brahma                                                                              Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buried Life, The                                                                Matthew Arnold

Burnt Norton (I & II) VIDEO                                              T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton (III & IV) VIDEO                                          T.S. Eliot

By the Rub of Love                                                           author unknown

Call to Arms, A (excerpt)                                                 Callanus

Chambered Nautilus, The                                                Oliver Windell Holmes

Chambermaid’s Lament, The                                           author unknown

Charioteer                                                                          Anakreon of Teos

Choice, The                                                                       Dorothy Parker

Come Along Then , Little Girl                                          Edna St. Vincent Millay

Come Boys                                                                        Van Williams

Comes the Enemy                                                            Richard Holcomb

Comes Winter                                                                    author unknown

Crabbed Age & Youth                                                       William Shakespeare

Curiosity                                                                            Allister Reid

Dada Poem                                                                        author unknown

Dangling Conversation                                                    Paul Simon

The Darkness of God Part IV of East Coker VIDEO   T.S.  Eliot

Dead, The  VIDEO                                                             Billy Collins Animated Poetry

Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The                              Randall Jerrell

Do not go gentle into that good night VIDEO                 Richard Burton reading

Dry Salvages, The                                                             T. S. Eliot

Dulce et decorum est                                                        Wilfred Owen

Earth                                                                                   John Hall Wheelock

Eighth Air Force                                                               Randall Jarrell

Elegy for Jane

 

Eldorado                                                                            Edgar Allan Poe

Elegy for Jane                                                                    Theodore Roethke

English Is Tough Stuff                                                      Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite

La Figilia Che Piange  VIDEO                                           T. S. Eliot

Five Ways To Kill A Man                                                  Edwin Brock  sp

For every thing there is a season . . .                              Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Forecast, The                                                                     Dan Jaffe

Friend, that open mouth                                                  anonymous

From a 19th Century Painter’s Notebook                       Dave Etter

From Nothing to Nowhere                                               Charles Angoff

Girl (A Fusion Of Poetry & Music) VIDEO                      Advait Sarkar

Heart, The                                                                          Stephen Crane

Heron, The                                                                         Raymond Holden

Hiding Place                                                                      Richard Armour

High Flight                                                                         John Gilispie Magee, Jr.

The Hollow Men; Marlon Brando

       from Apocalypse  Now VIDEO 

The Hollow Men VIDEO 

 

Hope is the thing with feathers                                       Emily Dickinson

Horse Latitudes                                                                Jim Morrison

How to Eat a Poem                                                           Eve Merriam

Husbands and Wives                                                        Miriam Henderson

Hymn in Praise of Aton                                                    ancient Egypt   

Hysteria                                                                             Chu Shu Chen

I’m nobody, who are you?        `                                      Emily Dickinson

If We Must Die                                                                    Claude McKay

If                                                                                         Rumi

In a Glass of Cider                                                            Robert Frost

In the Metro                                                                       Makhali Kvlividze

Indian Prayer                                                                     author unknown

It’s In The Bag                                                                    Lucile C. McLeod

Jesus’ crucifiction and Urdu poetry VIDEO

The Journey of the Magi VIDEO                                      T.S. Eliot

Joy                                                                                      C. S. Delany

Leaning into the Afternoons VIDEO                                Pablo Neruda

Love Poems And Quotes LINK 

Love Poems Friendship Poems and More                     Miscellaneous Poems

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock VIDEO 

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:

     A Short Film VIDEO 

Macavity” from Old Possum’s Book of Cats  VIDEO  T.S. Eliot

Masters of War                                                                  Bob Dylan

Miniver Cheevy                                                                 E. A. Robinson

Miracles                                                                             Walt Whitman

Mister Tambourine Man                                                   Bob Dylan

Mood                                                                                  Countee Cullen

Mother Goose LINK

Music I Heard                                                                     Conrad Akin

My Papa’s Waltz                                                               Theodore Roethke

Naming of Parts                                                                Henry Reed

Nortons, The                                                                      John C. White

Nothing Gold Can Stay                                                    Robert Frost

Now Here You Go                                                             J. Mallory

Only Breath VIDEO                                                           Rumi 

On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness                                Arthur Guiterman

Ozymandias      `                                                                Percy Bysse Shelley

Paradise                                                                            John Prine

Passions in Poetry

Peace                                                                                  Bakchylides

Peace                                                                                  Langston Hughes

Piano After War                                                                Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems of the Seven Planets (Collection)                       Miscellaneous Authors

Poetry VIDEO                                                                    Pablo Neruda

Prayer Before Birth                                                           Louis MacNeice

Prelude                                                                              T. S. Eliot

Regret                                                                                 Becky Hardin

Representative Poetry Online LINK

Resume                                                                             Dorothy Parker

Rhapsody on a Windy Night VIDEO                                T.S. Eliot

 

Ride a Wild Horse                                                             Hannah Kahn

River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, The                              Lo Po

Sailing on the Lake to the Ching River                          Lu Yu

Sam Stone                                                                         John Prine

Second Psalm                                                                    Felton Dunn

Scratch & Dent Dreams VIDEO                                       Slam Poetry

Seizure                                                                                Sappho

Short Poetry Collection

Snow In Summer                                                              Asklepiades

Sole Tenure                                                                       Meleagros

Song of the Chatahoochee                                              Sidney Lanier

Song of the Harper: Make Holiday                                  author unknown

Sonnet 73                                                                          Shakespeare

Sound of Silence, The                                                       Paul Simon

Stars                                                                                   Ken Koester

Staring into space                                                            author unknown

Subterranean Homesick Blues                                       Bob Dylan

Sunday Morning                                                               Janet Montgomery

Supermarket In California, A                                            Allen Ginsberg

Suzanne                                                                             Leonard Cohen

Taxing the Poor (War Poetry) VIDEO                              Music by Loreena Mckennitt

Thanatopsis                                                                       William Cullen Bryant

This Beach VIDEO                                                            Def Poetry - Oscar Brown Jr. -

This Isn’t What the GovernMEANT                                 David Gates

Those who don't Feel This Love VIDEO                         Rumi

Times They Are A-Changing, The                                   Bob Dylan

To An Athlete Dying Young                                             A. E. Housman

To be or not to be . . .                                                       William Shakespeare

To Look At Anything                                                         John Moffitt

To Lucaste, On Going to the Wars                                  Richard Lovelace

Toothbrush, The  (Def Poetry) VIDEO

Traffic Light, The                                                              Doyle McKey

Traveler’s Curse After Misdirection, The                       author unknown

Ulysses                                                                              Alfred Lord Tennyson

Under Milkwood VIDEO                                                   Dylan Thomas

Unfinished VIDEO                                                             Spoken Word Black History:

Universal Soldier -

Unknown Citizen, The                                                       W. H. Auden

Vacuum, The                                                                      Howard Nemerov

Waiting for the Barbarians                                               Constantine P. Cavafy

War                                                                                     Langston Hughes

War Is Kind                                                                        Steven Crane

War                                                                                     Dan Roth

The Wasteland VIDEO                                                      T. S.  Eliot reading

 

We are as the flute                                                            Rumi

Weary Blues, The  VIDEO                                                Langston Hughes 

When I heard the learned astronomer                            Walt Whitman

When I Was A Child I Bought the Beach                        Carol Hall

When You Are Old                                                            William Butler Yeats

White House, The                                                             Claude McKay

Wicked Udug                                                                     ancient Sumeria

With God On Our Side                                                      Bob Dylan

Words                                                                                 Don Hummingbird

World Is Too Much With Us, The                                    William Wordsworth

Yesterday                                                                          John Lennon & Paul McCartney

VIDEO                                                                                Dylan Thomas

VIDEO                                                                                 Langston Hughes

VIDEO                                                                                 Langston Hughes

 

 

 

Poem Videos Only

 

VIDEO  Do not go gentle into that good night                Richard Burton reading

VIDEO The Dead                                                               Billy Collins Animated Poetry

VIDEO  The Weary Blues                                                 Langston Hughes 

VIDEO  Only Breath                                                          Rumi 

VIDEO  Those who don't Feel This Love                        Rumi

VIDEO  Jesus’ crucifiction and Urdu poetry 

VIDEO   Scratch & Dent Dreams--                                    Slam Poetry

VIDEO                                                                                Dylan Thomas

VIDEO  Poetry & Jazz (1972)

VIDEO  This Beach                                                           Def Poetry - Oscar Brown Jr. -

VIDEO  Apology to My Unborn (Def Poetry Jam)          Bassey Ikpi

VIDEO                                                                                Smokey Robinson

VIDEO  Leaning into the Afternoons                               Pablo Neruda 

VIDEO  Unfinished                                                            Spoken Word Black History

VIDEO  As I Walked Out One Evening                             W. H. Auden

VIDEO  Poetry                                                                   Pablo Neruda

VIDEO  The Toothbrush (          Def Poetry)

VIDEO   Taxing the Poor (War Poetry)                             Music by Loreena Mckennitt

VIDEO   Girl (A Fusion Of Poetry & Music)                      Advait Sarkar

VIDEO                                                                                 Langston Hughes

VIDEO                                                                                 Langston Hughes

VIDEO   Under Milkwood                                                   Dylan Thomas

 

T.S.  Eliot

 

VIDEO  “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

VIDEO  “Prufrock”: A Short Film

VIDEO  “The Hollow Men”; Marlon Brando from Apocalypse  Now

VIDEO  “The Hollow Men”

VIDEO  Apocalypse Now excerpt

VIDEO   “The Wasteland” T. S.  Eliot reading

VIDEO   “Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot (I & II)

VIDEO   “Burnt Norton” by T.S. Eliot (III & IV)

VIDEO  “Macavity” from Old Possum’s Book of Cats  T.S.          Eliot

VIDEO  “The Journey of the Magi” T.S. Eliot

VIDEO  “La Figilia Che Piange”  T. S. Eliot

VIDEO  “The Darkness of God” Part IV of East Coker  T.S.  Eliot

VIDEO  "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" T.S. Eliot

 

LINK  Short Poetry Collection 002

LINK  Love Poems And Quotes

LINK  The Rap Dictionary

LINK  Representative Poetry Online

LINK  Mother Goose

 

 

Symbolism in Poetry I

LINK

 

Symbolism in Poetry II

LINK

 

Prosody and Versification

 

Glossary of Poetic Terms

 

READING / LITERATURE

 

INDEX

ASSIGNED READINGS

QUOTES

POETRY

DEEP THOUGHT

LITERATURE ON LINE

 

 

HOME     E-MAIL

 

GORDON     CALENDAR

 

READING / LITERATURE

 

INDEX

ASSIGNED READINGS

QUOTES

POETRY

DEEP THOUGHT

LITERATURE ON LINE

 

 

HOME     E-MAIL

 

GORDON     CALENDAR