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36 Great American Poems



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Track Poet Poem Time
1 Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband 1:15
2 William Cullen Bryant Thanatopsis 3:25
3 Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord Hymn 1:30
4 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life 2:11
5 The Song of Hiawatha 3:16
6 Paul Revere's Ride 3:15
7 Mezzo Cammin 1:48
8 John Greenleaf Whittier Barbara Frietchie 4:05
9 Edgar Allen Poe The Bells 4:57
10 Annabel Lee 2:28
11 The Raven 4:21
12 Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing 2:05
13 O Captain!  My Captain! 1:52
14 Emily Dickinson I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died 1:22
15 My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close 0:29
16 James Whitcomb Riley When the Frost is on the Punkin 1:33
17 Emma Lazarus The New Colossus 1:27
18 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude 1:49
19 Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory 1:45
20 Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 1:34
21 The Road Not Taken 1:14
22 Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream 1:39
23 Ezra Pound Sestina:  Altaforte 3:43
24 Joyce Kilmer Trees 1:16
25 Alan Seeger I Have a Rendezvous with Death 2:04
26 T.S. Eliot The Burial of the Dead 2:27
27 Cole Porter Anything Goes 1:27
28 Archibald MacLeish The End of the World 1:19
29 Dorothy Parker Pictures in the Smoke 0:55
30 Langston Hughes Saturday Night 1:30
31 Ogden Nash The Turtle 0:25
32 W.H. Auden September 1, 1939 1:56
33 Elizabeth Bishop One Art 2:02
34 Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner 1:01
35 Richard Wilbur The Death of a Toad 1:56
36 Denise Levertov To the Reader 0:59

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