Adam and Eve: From ‘Paradise Lost,’ Book IV by John Milton | 00:04:22 |
Seven Ages of Man: From ‘As You Like It,’ Act II. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare | 00:02:30 |
Cleopatra: From ‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ Act II. Sc. 2 by William Shakespeare | 00:03:08 |
To Ianthe, Sleeping: From ‘Queen Mab,’ Part I by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 00:03:00 |
Freedom in Dress: From ‘EpicÅ“ne; or, the Silent Woman,’ Act I. Sc. 1 by Ben Jonson | 00:01:17 |
Cousin Lucrece by Edmund Clarence Stedman | 00:03:36 |
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick | 00:01:18 |
The Toilet: From ‘The Rape of the Lock,’ Canto I by Alexander Pope | 00:02:06 |
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats | 00:03:42 |
Laus Veneris (A Picture by Burne-Jones) by Louise Chandler Moulton | 00:01:32 |
On Hearing a little Music-Box by Leigh Hunt | 00:02:21 |
Those Evening Bells by Thomas Moore | 00:01:10 |
The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe | 00:05:25 |
The Bells of Shandon by Francis Sylvester Mahony (Father Prout) | 00:02:32 |
City Bells: From ‘The Lay of St. Aloy’s’ by Richard Harris Barham | 00:01:27 |
The Cuckoo Clock: From ‘The Birthday’ by Caroline Bowles Southey | 00:01:25 |
An Etruscan Ring by John William Mackail | 00:02:18 |
Leonardo’s ‘Monna Lisa’ by Edward Dowden | 00:01:25 |
The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant | 00:03:10 |
Mist by Henry David Thoreau | 00:01:03 |
The Coasters by Thomas Fleming Day | 00:03:44 |
Smoke by Henry David Thoreau | 00:01:10 |
The Evening Cloud by John Wilson (Christopher North) | 00:01:17 |
A Still Day in Autumn by Sarah Helen Whitman | 00:02:39 |
The Sunset City by Henry Sylvester Cornwell | 00:01:51 |
The Nile by Leigh Hunt | 00:01:18 |
Ozymandias of Egypt by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 00:01:34 |
Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling | 00:03:53 |
The Orient: From ‘The Bride of Abydos’ by Lord Byron | 00:01:44 |
The Vale of Cashmere: From ‘The Light of the Harem’ by Thomas Moore | 00:02:28 |
Carillon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 00:03:28 |
The Rhine (To His Sister): From ‘Childe Harold,’ Canto III by Lord Byron | 00:02:22 |
The Cataract of Lodore: Described in ‘Rhymes for the Nursery’ by Robert Southey | 00:05:00 |
The Old Bridge at Florence by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 00:01:18 |
The White Peacock: From ‘Sospiri di Roma’ by William Sharp | 00:03:16 |
To Rome (Buried in its Ruins) by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas | 00:01:28 |
The Coliseum: From ‘Childe Harold,’ Canto IV by Lord Byron | 00:05:26 |
The Pantheon: From ‘Childe Harold,’ Canto IV by Lord Byron | 00:01:40 |
A Day in the Pamfili Doria, Near Rome by Harriet Beecher Stowe | 00:04:56 |
February in Rome by Edmund Gosse | 00:01:19 |
Saint Peter’s at Rome: From ‘Childe Harold,’ Canto IV by Lord Byron | 00:01:25 |
A View across the Roman Campagna (1861) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 00:02:40 |
Venice by John Addington Symonds | 00:01:25 |
Venice: From ‘Italy’ by Samuel Rogers | 00:03:10 |
The Gondola by Arthur Hugh Clough | 00:02:11 |
Venice: From ‘View from the Euganean Hills’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley | 00:03:00 |
Naples: From ‘Italy’ by Samuel Rogers | 00:02:59 |
Drifting by Thomas Buchanan Read | 00:03:32 |
England: From ‘The Traveller’ by Oliver Goldsmith | 00:01:43 |
That England: From ‘Aurora Leigh’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 00:03:08 |
The Knight: From ‘Marmion,’ Canto I by Sir Walter Scott | 00:05:57 |
O, the Pleasant Days of Old! by Frances Browne | 00:02:41 |
Melrose Abbey: From ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel,’ Canto II by Sir Walter Scott | 00:04:21 |
An Old Time Christmas: From ‘Marmion,’ Introduction to Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott | 00:04:10 |
The Castle Ruins by William Barnes | 00:02:23 |
The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith | 00:26:27 |
Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, London, 1802 by William Wordsworth | 00:01:26 |
London by John Davidson | 00:01:17 |
The Village Schoolmistress: From ‘The Schoolmistress’ by William Shenstone | 00:05:37 |
The Forging of the Anchor by Samuel Ferguson | 00:07:32 |
Newport-Beach by Henry Theodore Tuckerman | 00:01:12 |
The Settler by Alfred B. Street | 00:03:44 |
Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier | 00:03:12 |
Weehawken and the New York Bay: From ‘Fanny’ by Fitz-Greene Halleck | 00:02:36 |
Mannahatta by Walt Whitman | 00:02:48 |
The Brooklyn Bridge by Edna Dean Proctor | 00:02:39 |
Scythe Song by Andrew Lang | 00:01:15 |
The Mowers by Myron B. Benton | 00:05:38 |
Château Papineau by S. Frances Harrison (‘Seranus’) | 00:05:39 |
In Mexico by Evaleen Stein | 00:02:16 |
The Fall of Troy: From the ‘Æneid’ by Virgil | 00:05:22 |
Horatius at the Bridge by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay | 00:22:06 |
Thor recovers his Hammer from Thrym, from Sæmund’s Edda | 00:07:42 |
Frithiof at the Court of Angantyr: From the ‘Frithiof Saga,’ Canto XI by Esaias Tegnér | 00:09:22 |
The Skeleton in Armor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 00:08:05 |
The Baron’s Last Banquet by Albert G. Greene | 00:03:54 |
The Nobleman and the Pensioner by Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel | 00:03:52 |
Mahmoud by Leigh Hunt | 00:04:44 |
Prince Adeb by George Henry Boker | 00:13:06 |
The Leper by Nathaniel Parker Willis | 00:06:28 |
Erminia and the Wounded Tancred by Torquato Tasso | 00:05:03 |
Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine by Matthew Gregory Lewis | 00:05:37 |
The Broken Pitcher by William Edmondstoune Aytoun | 00:03:12 |
The Ballad of Guibour: From ‘Calendau’ by Frédéric Mistral | 00:04:43 |
The Glove and the Lions by Leigh Hunt | 00:02:44 |
The Glove by Robert Browning | 00:09:31 |
Louis XV by John Sterling | 00:02:47 |
Hervé Riel by Robert Browning | 00:08:06 |
Napoleon and the British Sailor by Thomas Campbell | 00:03:15 |
How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning | 00:04:23 |
Mort D’Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 00:17:33 |
Godiva by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 00:05:26 |
The Canterbury Pilgrims: From ‘The Canterbury Tales: Prologue’ by Geoffrey Chaucer | 00:15:52 |
Lord Lovel by Anonymous | 00:03:13 |
Robin Hood and Allan-a-Dale by Anonymous | 00:05:35 |
The Greenwood Shrift: George III and a Dying Woman in Windsor Forest by Robert and Caroline Southey | 00:05:43 |
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 00:09:01 |
England: From ‘King John,’ Act V. Sc. 7 by William Shakespeare | 00:00:48 |
Jock Johnstone, the Tinkler by James Hogg | 00:11:51 |
Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell | 00:03:06 |
Marmion and Douglas: From ‘Marmion,’ Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott | 00:04:41 |
Fitz-James and Roderick Dhu: From ‘The Lady of the Lake,’ Canto V by Sir Walter Scott | 00:14:40 |
Fitz-James and Ellen: From ‘The Lady of the Lake,’ Canto VI by Sir Walter Scott | 00:07:53 |
Muckle-Mou’d Meg by James Ballantine | 00:03:22 |
The Heart of the Bruce by William Edmondstoune Aytoun | 00:10:20 |
Barclay of Ury by John Greenleaf Whittier | 00:05:47 |
The Fight of the ‘Armstrong’ Privateer by James Jeffrey Roche | 00:07:04 |
Drifted out to Sea by Rose Hartwick Thorpe | 00:03:21 |