Classic American poetry: 65 favourite poems

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

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.