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112 of 112 (100%) sections assigned

112 of 112 (100%) sections completed

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SectionTitleReaderNotesListen UrlStatus
1 Blest Memory: From 'The Pleasures of Memory' by Samuel Rogers  leanneyauyau PL OK
2 Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti  WiltedScribe PL OK
3 Pre-Existence by Paul Hamilton Hayne  WiltedScribe PL OK
4 Once Before by Mary Mapes Dodge  Kitty PL OK
5 A Lost Chord by Adelaide Anne Procter  leanneyauyau PL OK
6 The Closing Year by George Denison Prentice  Craigos PL OK
7 Roma: From 'Poesie' by Giosuè Carducci  jasonb PL OK
8 There Is Such Power: From 'Sonnets in Shadow' by Arlo Bates  leanneyauyau PL OK
9 Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez by William Cowper  WiltedScribe PL OK
10 Mignon's Song: From 'Wilhelm Meister' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  Kitty PL OK
11 Oft in the Stilly Night by Thomas Moore  Kitty PL OK
12 On the Ruins of a Country Inn by Philip Freneau  Craigos PL OK
13 'T Is but a Little Faded Flower by Ellen Clementine Howarth  leanneyauyau PL OK
14 The Brier-Wood Pipe by Charles Dawson Shanly  leanneyauyau WiltedScribe PL OK
15 Memory and Oblivion by Macedonius  leanneyauyau PL OK
16 The Inner Vision by William Wordsworth  jasonb PL OK
17 Thought by Christopher Pearse Cranch  Kitty PL OK
18 Dream-Life: From 'Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of' by Pedro Calderón  WiltedScribe PL OK
19 My Minde to Me a Kingdom Is by Sir Edward Dyer  Kitty PL OK
20 To One Who Had Scoffed at the Poet's Poverty by Martial  Craigos PL OK
21 Of a Contented Spirit by Thomas, Lord Vaux  jasonb PL OK
22 A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever: From 'Endymion,' Book I by John Keats  Craigos PL OK
23 The Sower and his Seed by William E.H. Lecky  jasonb PL OK
24 Æsop by Andrew Lang  leanneyauyau WiltedScribe Craigos PL OK
25 Indirection by Richard Realf  Kitty PL OK
26 Proem by Madison Cawein  WiltedScribe PL OK
27 The Poet of Nature: From 'Festus' by Philip James Bailey  Craigos PL OK
28 Above the Clouds by Joaquin Miller  jasonb PL OK
29 The Poet's Impulse: From 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,' Canto III by Lord Byron  Craigos PL OK
30 Impression by Edmund Gosse  Kitty PL OK
31 The Ancient and Modern Muses by Francis Turner Palgrave  jasonb PL OK
32 On his 'Sonnets of the Wingless Hours' by Eugene Lee-Hamilton  leanneyauyau PL OK
33 The Poet of To-day by Sarah Jane Lippincott (Grace Greenwood)  Craigos PL OK
34 Unknown Poets: From 'The Excursion,' Book I by William Wordsworth  Craigos PL OK
35 The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme by Austin Dobson  Kitty PL OK
36 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by John Keats  jasonb PL OK
37 The Odyssey (Prefacing the Butcher-Lang Translation) by Andrew Lang  Craigos PL OK
38 Sonnet: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney  leanneyauyau PL OK
39 The Singer of One Song by Henry Augustin Beers  leanneyauyau PL OK
40 The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder  leanneyauyau PL OK
41 An Autograph by James Russell Lowell  Craigos PL OK
42 Art by Sir Gilbert Parker  jasonb PL OK
43 Broken Music by Thomas Bailey Aldrich  leanneyauyau PL OK
44 The Modern Poet (A Song of Derivations) by Alice Meynell  WiltedScribe PL OK
45 The Jester's Plea by Frederick Locker-Lampson  jasonb PL OK
46 Verses Why Burnt by Walter Savage Landor  leanneyauyau PL OK
47 Sweet Nature's Voice: From 'Susan: A Poem of Degrees' by Arthur Joseph Munby  Kitty PL OK
48 Genius by Richard Henry Hengist Horne  Craigos PL OK
49 One Day I Wrote her Name: From 'Amoretti,' Sonnet LXXV by Edmund Spenser  Kitty WiltedScribe PL OK
50 The Poet's Death: From 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel,' Canto V by Sir Walter Scott  jasonb PL OK
51 Thy Songs and Mine by Julia C.R. Dorr  WiltedScribe PL OK
52 The Sharing of the Earth by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller  Kitty leanneyauyau jasonb Craigos PL OK
53 The Immortality of Genius by Sextus Propertius  Kitty PL OK
54 Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson  Craigos PL OK
55 Books: From 'The Kaléder of Sheperdes,' 1528 by Anonymous  Kitty PL OK
56 The Scholar: From 'Edwin the Fair' by Sir Henry Taylor  jasonb PL OK
57 The Book-Stall by Clinton Scollard  leanneyauyau PL OK
58 Books by John Higgins  leanneyauyau PL OK
59 Influence of Music: From 'King Henry Eighth,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare  leanneyauyau PL OK
60 Music: From 'The Merchant of Venice,' Act V. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare  Kitty leanneyauyau jasonb PL OK
61 To —— by Percy Bysshe Shelley  leanneyauyau PL OK
62 The Cello by Richard Watson Gilder  leanneyauyau Craigos PL OK
63 A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, 1687 by John Dryden  WiltedScribe PL OK
64 The Spell by Paul Verlaine  WiltedScribe PL OK
65 The Passions (An Ode for Music) by William Collins  Kitty PL OK
66 Invocation: From 'The Davideis' by Abraham Cowley  Craigos PL OK
67 Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music (An Ode) by John Dryden  WiltedScribe jasonb PL OK
68 Beethoven's Third Symphony by Richard Hovey  jasonb PL OK
69 Pan in Wall Street by Edmund Clarence Stedman  WiltedScribe PL OK
70 On an Intaglio Head of Minerva by Thomas Bailey Aldrich  jasonb PL OK
71 The Artist by Arthur Grissom  Kitty leanneyauyau PL OK
72 A Painted Fan by Louise Chandler Moulton  Kitty PL OK
73 On a Fan that Belonged to the Marquise de Pompadour (Ballade) by Austin Dobson  WiltedScribe PL OK
74 Hack and Hew by Bliss Carman  Kitty leanneyauyau WiltedScribe jasonb Craigos PL OK
75 The Axe: From 'Malcolm's Katie' by Isabella Valancy Crawford  Kitty WiltedScribe Craigos PL OK
76 Labor by Frances Sargent Osgood  leanneyauyau jasonb Craigos PL OK
77 The Song of the Lower Classes by Ernest Charles Jones  Kitty leanneyauyau WiltedScribe jasonb Craigos PL OK
78 'The Man with the Hoe' by Edwin Markham  Kitty PL OK
79 'The Man with the Hoe' (A Reply) by John Vance Cheney  Kitty Craigos PL OK
80 Corn-Law Hymn by Ebenezer Elliott  jasonb PL OK
81 For a' That and a' That by Robert Burns  WiltedScribe PL OK
82 The Good Time Coming by Charles Mackay  jasonb PL OK
83 The Lotus-Eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson  Kitty leanneyauyau WiltedScribe jasonb Craigos PL OK
84 Delay by Charlotte Fiske Bates  Craigos PL OK
85 The Happy Heart: From 'Patient Grissell,' Act I. Sc. 1 by Thomas Dekker  WiltedScribe PL OK
86 The Cobbler and the Financier by Jean de La Fontaine  WiltedScribe jasonb Craigos PL OK
87 Labor Done: From 'Song of the Bell' by J.C. Friedrich von Schiller  Craigos PL OK
88 Haste Not! Rest Not! by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  jasonb PL OK
89 Work by Henry van Dyke  Craigos PL OK
90 A Wish by Abraham Cowley  jasonb PL OK
91 Contentment by Joshua Sylvester  Kitty PL OK
92 Content: From 'Farewell to Follie,' 1617 by Robert Greene  Kitty PL OK
93 Song by John Bunyan  jasonb PL OK
94 In Prison by Sir Roger L'Estrange  Craigos PL OK
95 Cleon and I by Charles Mackay  jasonb PL OK
96 The Wants of Man by John Quincy Adams  WiltedScribe PL OK
97 Contentment ('Man Wants but Little Here Below') by Oliver Wendell Holmes  Kitty PL OK
98 Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson  WiltedScribe PL OK
99 To All in Haven by Philip Bourke Marston  Craigos PL OK
100 A Woman's Wish by Mary Ashley Townsend  leanneyauyau PL OK
101 The World and the Quietist by Matthew Arnold  Kitty jasonb PL OK
102 Rest by Margaret L. Woods  WiltedScribe PL OK
103 Invocation to Sleep: From 'Valentinian' by John Fletcher  leanneyauyau PL OK
104 Sleep by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar)  leanneyauyau PL OK
105 Sleep: From 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney  WiltedScribe PL OK
106 Sleep: From 'Second Part of Henry IV,' Act III. Sc. 1 by William Shakespeare  WiltedScribe PL OK
107 Sleeplessness by William Wordsworth  leanneyauyau PL OK
108 Watching (In Burmah) by Emily Chubbuck Judson  Craigos PL OK
109 The Voyage of Sleep by Arthur Wentworth Eaton  Kitty PL OK
110 The Two Oceans by John Sterling  Kitty PL OK
111 Ode to Sleep by Paul Hamilton Hayne  WiltedScribe PL OK
112 The Fallen (In Memoriam, May 30) by John Vance Cheney  WiltedScribe jasonb PL OK