America the Beautiful
Katharine Lee Bates
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2022.
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In honor of The United States' 246th birthday on July 4th. Bates wrote the words as a poem originally entitled "Pikes Peak". It was first published in the Fourth of July 1895 edition of the church periodical, The Congregationalist. It was at that time that the poem was first entitled "America". - Summary by TriciaG & Wikipedia (0 hr 21 min)
Chapters
America the Beautiful - Read by BK | 1:57 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
America the Beautiful - Read by CRR | 1:49 | Read by Curtis R. |
America the Beautiful - Read by EKE | 1:58 | Read by Keith Emanuel |
America the Beautiful - Read by KLA | 2:23 | Read by Kerry Adams |
America the Beautiful - Read by KS | 1:37 | Read by KevinS |
America the Beautiful - Read by LAH | 1:39 | Read by Lee Ann Howlett |
America the Beautiful - Read by LCW | 1:33 | Read by Larry Wilson |
America the Beautiful - Read by LJB | 2:02 | Read by LaurieB |
America the Beautiful - Read by LS | 1:50 | Read by LeeSalter |
America the Beautiful - Read by MD | 1:22 | Read by Mark Dykshoorn |
America the Beautiful - Read by MLM | 2:10 | Read by mleigh |
America the Beautiful - Read by RAJ | 1:36 | Read by RajVO |