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Episode 2: "On Quitting" by Edgar Albert Guest
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Episode 8: "A HYMN to the Evening" by Phillis Wheatley
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Episode 6: "A HYMN to the MORNING" by Phillis Wheatley
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Episode 3: "Thursday" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Episode 4: "Travel" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Episode 3: "Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Episode 2: "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Episode 1: The Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Episode 51: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes
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Episode 50: "Kids Who Die" by Langston Hughes
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"My People" by Langston Hughes Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------…
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Episode 45: "When Sue Wears Red" by Langston Hughes
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Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------- When Sue Wears Red When Susanna Jones wears red Her face is like an ancient cameo Turned brown by the ages. Come with a…
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Episode 44: Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
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Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------- "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I …
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Episode 43: "The Washer-Woman" by Otto Leland Bohanan
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#GoodPoetry presents an excerpt from Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth". This poem was published in Phillis Wheatley's poetry book, entitled, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" in 1773. This poem is in the public domain. --------------------------------------------------------------…
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Ars Poetica BY ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. * A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs, Leaving, as the moon releases Twig by tw…
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"One's-Self I Sing" by Walt Whitman, read by Teyuna Trynea Darris
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One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action…
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"When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
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"When I Was One-and-Twenty" BY A. E. HOUSMAN When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, “Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.” But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, “The heart out of the bosom Was never give…
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"Even Such as Time" by Sir Walter Ralegh (or, Sir Walter Raleigh)
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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
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"A Learned Man Came to Me Once" by Stephen Crane
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "A Learned Man Came to Me Once" by Stephen Crane A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hasten…
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- I know I’m not that pretty, But I have a smile that glows. I may not be that pretty, But I know more than you’ll ever know. I may have chubby face: But I can warm …
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. -------------------------------------- The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad The clever men at Oxford Know all that there is to be knowed. But t…
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. -------------------------------------- "The Harlem Dancer: by Claude McKay Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes Blown by bla…
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"Do You Know What It's Like to Be Free?" by Teyuna T. Darris
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"Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Answer to a Child's Question" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Do you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove, The Linnet and Thrush say, “I love and I love!” In …
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "A Poem" by Teyuna Trynea Darris A poem does not have to rhyme It simply shares a record of a tale about some interesting/practical event that all humans share. A …
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In…
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"The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, iTunes, Stitcher and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter. -------------------------------------- ""The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could…
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and on iTunes, Sticher, the GooglePlay Music store and YouTube. ______________________________________ We’ll Go No More A-Roving by Lord Byron So We'll Go No More a Roving BY LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON) So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the …
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.com, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. ______________________________________ "My Poetical Side" by Teyuna T. Darris I just thought I'd unleash My poetical side. 'Cause in everyday life, I live to hide. Need something of freedom: From time to time Need something of feeli…
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"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and connect with @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ______________________________________ "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is free. (Am…
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. ______________________________________ "If-ing" If I had some small change I’d buy me a mule, Get on that mule and Ride like a fool. If I had some greenbacks I’d buy me a Packard, Fill it up with gas and Drive that baby backward. If I had a million I’d get me a plane And everybody in America’d Think …
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Listen to more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org. "Snail" Written by Langston Hughes Read by Teyuna T. Darris Little snail, Dreaming you go. Weather and rose Is all you know. Weather and rose Is all you see, Drinking The dewdrop’s Mystery. Langston Hughes From Collected Poems. Copyright ©1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.…
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" by Phillis Wheatley
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Listen to Phillis Wheatley's poem, entitled, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" read by Teyuna T. Darris. More at www.GoodPoetry.org.
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Audio recording of Teyuna T. Darris reading "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman.
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"Routine" by Arthur Guiterman, read by Teyuna T. Darris
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No matter what we are and who, Some duties everyone must do: A poet puts aside his wreath To wash his face and brush his teeth, And even Earls Must comb their curls, And even Kings Have underthings.
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'He Had His Dream" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, read by Teyuna T. Darris
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He had his dream, and all through life, Worked up to it through toil and strife. Afloat fore'er before his eyes, It colored for him all his skies: The storm-cloud dark Above his bark, The calm and listless vault of blue Took on its hopeful hue, It tinctured every passing beam - He had his dream. He labored hard and failed at last, His sails too wea…
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"I had no time to hate, because" by Emily Dickinson
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This is a poetry reading from GoodPoetry.org. Today, "I had no time to hate, because" by Emily Dickinson is presented. Narrated by Teyuna T. Darris.
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