19th Century Sleeping Draught: Recent Episodes
Erik
Welcome to 19th Century Sleeping Draught. I will recite to you poems written by some of the best 19th century American poets. Focus on these lyrical masterpieces and let your personal cares drift away. Relieved of your burdens, relax and float into the freedom of your dreams.
Emily Dickenson - There Is No Frigate Like A Book
Ambrose Bierce - Freedom
William Vaughn Moody - The Quarry
Edith Wharton - Chartres
John Greenleaf Whittier - Flowers In Winter
Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Love Is Enough
James Whitcomb Riley - A Summer Afternoon
Ellis Parker Butler - The Hunter
Emily Dickenson - Pink, Small, and Punctual
Elizabeth Margaret Chandlet - The Slave Ship
Rose Terry Cooke - Trailing Arbutus
Lydia Maria Child - If Ever I See
Fanny Crosby - Oh, What a Happy Soul I Am!
Herman Melville - The Ribs and Terrors of the Whale
Adah Isaacs Menken - A Memory
Francis Scott Key - Lord, With Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee
William Dean Howells - Earliest Spring
Eugene Field - Chicago Weather
Emma Lazarus - Long Island Sound
Emily Dickenson - Hope Is A Thing With Feathers
Stephen Crane - Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind
Willa Cather - The Tavern
Henry Van Dyke - Autumn In The Garden
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Sun And Shadow
Joyce Kilmer - The House With Nobody In It
Mark Twain - Genius
Sara Teasdale - Alone
Bret Harte - What The Bullet Sang
Sidney Lanier - A Sunrise Song
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