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Old Boats - Read by MSD

In Old Boats

Read by Matthew Datcher


Theodosia Garrison


There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, …

The Dolls - Read by MSD

In The Dolls

Read by Matthew Datcher


William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British li…

A Cup of Tea - Read by MSD

In A Cup of Tea

Read by Matthew Datcher


James Whitcomb Riley


James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet"…

Pledge of Allegiance, Great Seal of the United States & Motto of the United Sta…

In The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the Unit…

Read by Matthew Datcher


US Department of Homeland Security, United States Department Of Homeland Security and United States Of America


New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the hist…

To His Mistress Going to Bed - Read by MSD

In To His Mistress Going to Bed

Read by Matthew Datcher


John Donne


John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets…

The Usher's Charge - Read by MSD

In The Usher's Charge

Read by Matthew Datcher


W. S. Gilbert


Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as t…

The Shakedown on the Floor - Read by MSD

In The Shakedown on the Floor

Read by Matthew Datcher


Henry Lawson


Despite the bittersweet outcome of the romance in this work, the poem still manages to conclude in an uplifting fashion. - Summary by SonOfT…

Oh, For a Home of Rest! - Read by MSD

In Oh, For a Home of Rest!

Read by Matthew Datcher


Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney


Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney was a Quaker minister who, when her husband Joseph John Gurney died in 1847, continued the labours of a travelin…

Hurrahing in Harvest - Read by MSD

In Hurrahing in Harvest

Read by Matthew Datcher


Gerard Manley Hopkins


Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian …

A Fairy Glee - Read by MSD

In A Fairy Glee

Read by Matthew Datcher


Eugene Field


This poem is taken from Volume X, A Library of American Literature:An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Repu…

Go Plant A Tree - Read by MSD

In Go Plant A Tree

Read by Matthew Datcher


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude&quo…

'In Re a Gentleman, One' - Read by MSD

In ''In Re a Gentleman, One''

Read by Matthew Datcher


Andrew Barton Paterson


Paterson lived and worked in Sydney for most of his adult life, but his poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of the bush and the ic…

Middle Age Enthusiasms - Read by MSD

In Middle Age Enthusiasms

Read by Matthew Datcher


Thomas Hardy


Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novel…

Troubled About Many Things - Read by MSD

In Troubled About Many Things

Read by Matthew Datcher


Emily Dickinson


The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produ…