Favorite Poems and Poets Around the World

Music

September 10, 2015

Bold Tommy Payne

“I’ll tell you a story, it’s sad but it’s true, of the wild pigs where I come from….”

Music

September 2, 2015

Lime Juice Tub

“With a ra-dum ra-dum rub-a-dub-dub, we’ll send you home in a lime juice tub “

Irish / Music

September 2, 2015

Mountains of Mourne

An Irish folk song from the 19th century

French / Music

August 31, 2015

Quand P’tit Jean Revint du Bois

French folk songs often include a hungry wolf

Music

August 31, 2015

Yellow Bird

Emile Ford and the Checkmates sing the popular Caribbean tune, Yellow Bird (up high in banana tree)

American

August 31, 2015

Brother Bartholomew

“Brother Bartholomew, working time, would fall into musing…”

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August 22, 2015

Poe, Dickinson and the Dash

Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson loved the dash!

audio / English

August 2, 2015

Jabberwocky

“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble…”

American

August 2, 2015

Elegy for Jane

“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils…”

audio / English

August 1, 2015

The Charge of the Light Brigade

by ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809-1892) featuring a reading by actor, Jamie Renell Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the...