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37 American Poems
by Various
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th – early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker’s sole PD work. (Summary by Bellona Times)
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Total running time: 1:30:28
Read by Bellona Times
In addition to the reader, this audio book was produced by:
Dedicated Proof-Listener: Neeru Iyer
Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Philippa
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- 01- Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet – 00:02:50
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[ogg vorbis - 1.82MB] - 02- To a LADY on her remarkable Preservation in an Hurricane in North-Carolina by Phillis Wheatley – 00:02:25
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[ogg vorbis - 1.54MB] - 03- The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key – 00:02:31
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[ogg vorbis - 1.64MB] - 04- Home, Sweet Home by John H. Payne – 00:01:55
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[ogg vorbis - 1.21MB] - 05- The Wild Honeysuckle by Philip M. Freneau – 00:01:42
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[ogg vorbis - 1.09MB] - 06- Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant – 00:05:12
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[ogg vorbis - 3.34MB] - 07- The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – 00:02:28
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[ogg vorbis - 1.61MB] - 08- Seed-Time and Harvest by John Greenleaf Whittier – 00:01:56
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[ogg vorbis - 1.25MB] - 09- The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson – 00:02:01
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[ogg vorbis - 1.30MB] - 10- In Vain by Emily Dickinson – 00:01:50
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[ogg vorbis - 1.17MB] - 11- Woodman, Spare that Tree! by George P. Morris – 00:01:37
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[ogg vorbis - 1.08MB] - 12- Spring by Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney – 00:01:31
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[ogg vorbis - 1012MB] - 13- Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe – 00:02:50
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[ogg vorbis - 1.85MB] - 14- The Mocking-bird by Sidney Lanier – 00:01:16
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[ogg vorbis - 840MB] - 15- The Path That Leads to Home by Edgar Guest – 00:02:04
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[ogg vorbis - 1.35MB] - 16- The March into Virginia, Ending in the First Manassas. by Herman Melville – 00:02:18
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[ogg vorbis - 1.47MB] - 17- Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand by Walt Whitman – 00:03:32
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[ogg vorbis - 2.28MB] - 18- May by Helen Hunt Jackson – 00:01:13
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[ogg vorbis - 758MB] - 19- Sweeney Among The Nightengales by T.S. Eliot – 00:02:10
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[ogg vorbis - 1.37MB] - 20- A Late Walk by Robert Frost – 00:01:05
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[ogg vorbis - 688MB] - 21- Sheltered Garden by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) – 00:02:28
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[ogg vorbis - 1.62MB] - 22- Pauline Barrett by Edgar Lee Masters – 00:01:41
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[ogg vorbis - 1.09MB] - 23- Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay – 00:01:21
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[ogg vorbis - 905MB] - 24- Five Sonnets by Edna St Vincent Millay – 00:04:32
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[ogg vorbis - 2.94MB] - 25- Manhattan by Lola Ridge – 00:01:37
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[ogg vorbis - 1.00MB] - 26- Ships That Pass In The Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar – 00:01:25
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[ogg vorbis - 935MB] - 27- O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson – 00:03:20
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[ogg vorbis - 2.15MB] - 28- The Heart of A Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson – 00:00:55
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[ogg vorbis - 606MB] - 29- Translation by Anne Spencer – 00:01:06
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[ogg vorbis - 738MB] - 30- Queen Anne’s Lace by William Carlos Williams – 00:01:16
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[ogg vorbis - 847MB] - 31- Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie – 00:03:53
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[ogg vorbis - 2.58MB] - 32- Spring Night by Sara Teasdale – 00:01:28
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[ogg vorbis - 982MB] - 33- Mourn Not The Dead by Ralph Chaplin – 00:00:59
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[ogg vorbis - 651MB] - 34- Poem XII, from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley by Ezra Pound – 00:01:45
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[ogg vorbis - 1.13MB] - 35- Reformers: A Hymn of Hate by Dorothy Parker – 00:04:47
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[ogg vorbis - 3.13MB] - 36- Lilacs by Amy Lowell – 00:05:18
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[ogg vorbis - 3.42MB] - 37- Tetelestai by Conrad Aiken – 00:08:11
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Cataloged on August 13, 2009
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