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Scott Reads Poetry"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham LincolnDid you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?
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"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln
My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There's pleasure in it too.
O Memory! thou midway world
'Twixt earth and paradise,
Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In...2020-03-1401 minScott Reads Poetry"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily DickinsonText: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56824/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-1263
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Thanks for listening.2020-02-1800 minScott Reads Poetry"God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley HopkinsText: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
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Thanks for listening.2020-02-1201 minScott Reads Poetry"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord ByronText: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43827/the-destruction-of-sennacherib
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Thanks for listening.2020-01-2601 minScott Reads Poetry"Leisure" by William Henry DaviesText: https://englishverse.com/poems/leisure
Thanks to Parker Fox for this recommendation!
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If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2020-01-2600 minScott Reads Poetry"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan ThomasEditor William Harmon calls this the best villanelle of the twentieth century, and among the best poems of any type for that time.
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0901 minScott Reads Poetry"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler YeatsYeats was inspired to write this poem about living a simple life on a lake near a place where he spent summers as a child in County Sligo, Ireland. He was influenced by Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0901 minScott Reads Poetry"Fire and Ice" by Robert FrostA short poem about hate and indifference. Which is worse?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice2019-12-0900 minScott Reads Poetry"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevenshttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0900 minScott Reads Poetry"Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff" by Alfred Edward HousmanA humorous poem about poetry and drinking. Housman is a master of the couplet, and the meter really makes this poem a rewarding read.
https://www.bartleby.com/123/62.html
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0903 minScott Reads Poetry"A narrow Fellow in the Grass" by Emily DickinsonThis poem is also a riddle! See if you can figure out what is being described...
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0900 minScott Reads Poetry"The World Is Too Much With Us" by William WordsworthThe poet laments the futility and emptiness of life.
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-12-0800 minScott Reads Poetry"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord TennysonThis poem is one of my favorites.
The Greek hero of the Iliad and the Odyssey gives an account of his life and purpose before he sets sail on his final journey. The final section ofthe poem is actually quoted by Judy Dench's character "M" in the Bond film Skyfall. She, of course does a better reading than I.
If you’re enjoying my readings, buy me a coffee! Thanks for listening.2019-11-1104 minScott Reads Poetry"The Betrothed" by Rudyard KiplingMy reading of this humorous poem about a husband who is forced to choose between his wife and his tobacco.
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