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Alexander Scourby, "81 Famous Poems"

Listen to the sound of English as it was meant to be heard. This collection of timeless British and American poems is an experience to be treasured. The readings, by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher, are presented in the order they appear in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, and are selected for their ability to delight. The poetry is also among the most anthologized verse in the English language. Included are such best loved works as Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?," John Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star," Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose," John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Walt Whitman's "Oh Captain, My Captain," and William Butler Yeats' "The Wild Swans at Coole" - a total of 81 major poems from 39 poets. It is simply a collection of the best.

01. Anonymous Early Song: The Cuckoo Song

02. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Whoso List to Hunt

03. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

04. Sir Walter Raleigh: The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage

05. Sir Philip Sidney: Sonnet 1 from Astrophel and Stella

06. Christopher Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

07. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

08. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

09. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds

10. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129 - Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame

11. Thomas Campion: When to Her Lute Corina Sings

12. Thomas Campion: Rose-cheeked Laura

13. Thomas Campion: There is a Garden in Her Face

14. John Dunne: Song - Go and catch a falling star

15. John Dunne: The Sun Rising

16. John Dunne: Sonnet 10 from Holy Sonnets - Death, be not proud

17. Ben Johnson: Song: To Celia

18. Robert Herrick: The Argument of His Book

19. Robert Herrick: Delight in Disorder

20. Robert Herrick: To the Virgins to Make Much of Time

21. Robert Herrick: Upon Julia's Clothes

22. George Herbert: The Collar

23. George Herbert: The Pulley

24. George Herbert: Love (III)

25. John Milton: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent (a.k.a. On His Blindness)

26. John Suckling: Song - Why so pale and wan, fond lover?

27. John Suckling: Out upon It! (aka The Constant Lover)

28. Richard Lovelace: To Althea, from Prison

29. Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

30. Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love

31. Henry Vaughan: The Retreat

32. John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

33. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

34. William Blake: from Poetical Sketches, Song

35. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, Introduction

36. William Blake: from Songs of Innocence, The Lamb

37. William Blake: from Songs of Experience, The Tyger

38. Robert Burns: To Mouse

39. Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose

40. William Wordsworth: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

41. William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

42. William Wordsworth: My Heart Leaps Up

43. William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much With Us

44. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan CD-2

01. George Gordon, Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty

02. George Gordon, Lord Byron: When We Two Parted

03. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias

04. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ode to the West Wind

05. Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark

06. Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais (stanzas 1, 39, 54, and 55)

07. John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

08. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

09. John Keats: Bright Star

10. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn

11. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Rhodora

12. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43

13. Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen

14. Edgar Allan Poe: The City in the Sea

15. Edgar Allan Poe: Annabel Lee

16. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Break, Break, Break

17. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Songs from The Princess, The Splendor Falls

18. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Tears, Idle Tears

19. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

20. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The Eagle

21. Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Crossing the Bar

22. Robert Browning: My Last Duchess

23. Robert Browning: Home-Thoughts from Abroad

24. Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (parts 1, 6, 21 and 31)

25. Walt Whitman: O Captain! My Captain!

26. Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach

27. Emily Dickinson: 303 - The Soul selects her own Society

28. Emily Dickinson: 986 - A narrow Fellow in the Grass

29. Christina Rossetti: Up-Hill

30. Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Garden of Proserpine

31. Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

32. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty

33. Alfred Edward Housman: Lovliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

34. Alfred Edward Housman: With Rue My Heart Is Laden

35. William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree

36. William Butler Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole

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