Matthew Arnold "Shakespeare"

In celebration of the birthday of William Shakespeare in 1564, a paean to Shakespeare by Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold.

Shakespeare by Matthew Arnold
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Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month, April 2012 page on the Internet Archive to hear all poems so far recorded this month.

A.E. Housman "The Immortal Part"

Sunday, April 22, 2012

The Immortal Part by A.E. Housman

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Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month, April 2012 page on the Internet Archive. Click here to listen to all 22 (so far) of the month's poems in streaming audio.

Joyce, Wordsworth, Watts, Chapman

Wednesday, April 18
 

All Day I Hear the Noise of Waters

by James Joyce
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Thursday, April 19
 

Written In March

by William Wordsworth

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Friday, April 20

Horace Paraphrased

By Isaac Watts

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Saturday, April 21
 

A Coronet for his Mistress, Philosophy

By George Chapman

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Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month, April 2012 page on the Internet Archive
All my rhapsodic recordings of poems for the month of April 2012 

Clough, Rossetti, Yeats, & Lawrence

April 14

Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth

by Arthur Hugh Clough

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April 15

A Dirge

By Christina Rossetti

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April 16

Sailing to Byzantium        

by William Butler Yeats

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April 17

Piano

By D.H. Lawrence

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Dekker, Campion & Browning

Poems for April 11, 12, & 13

Wednesday, April 11
Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes by Thomas Dekker
 
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Thursday, April 12
Blame Not My Cheeks by Thomas Campion
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Friday, April 13
Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

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Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month, April 2012 page on the Internet Archive
All my rhapsodic recordings of poems for the month of April 2012

Milton, Collins & Tennyson

New Audio recordings of poems for April 8, 9, & 10

Sunday, April 8
Sonnet 23 by John Milton
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Monday, April 9
Ode - How Sleep the Brave by William Collins
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Tuesday, April 10 
from In Memoriam - Dark House by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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These recordings are part of my personal rhapsodic project for Poetry Month, April 2012. A different classical poem, new to my repertory, for each day of the month, all collected here on this Internet Archive page.

Michael Drayton and Samuel Daniel

Here are my audio Poems-of-the-Day for April 6 and 7

April 6: Michael Drayton's Sonnet 48 - Cupid I Hate Thee
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April 7: Samuel Daniel's Delia L
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Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month April 2012 page 

Poem of the Day - Ode by John Hoskins

Ode by John Hoskins

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My Poem-a-Day audio recordings for Poetry Month, April 2012 page at the Internet Archive.

Poems for April 3 & 4

I am catching up to the day, so I have two new recordings of classic poems posted on the Internet Archive page I have created for this project. Click this link for the page with all recordings for the month: Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month - April 2012

The links to the texts of the poems and a poet bio at Poets.org:

April 3 - The Mower to the Glowworms by Andrew Marvell  text   poet bio

April 4 - A Lecture Upon the Shadow by John Donne  text   poet bio

Poem-a-Day for Poetry Month April 2012

This year for Poetry Month I am getting familiar with a new (for me) classic poem each day. I will be posting links to my audio performances of either a new poem every single day or every few days I will post the number needed to catch up with the days of the month. Today I am posting links to two poems, one for April 1st and April 2nd.

April 1 - Sonnet 25 by William Shakespeare

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April 2 - The Time I've Lost in Wooing by Thomas Moore

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