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  • Angelou, Maya — On the Pulse of Morn­ing (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Angelou, Maya — Phe­nom­e­nal Woman — YouTube
  • Angelou, Maya — Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morn­ing (read by author) — YouTube
  • Anony­mous — Beowulf — Free iTunes — Free MP3s — Read­ing by Sea­mus Heaney
  • Apol­li­naire, Guil­laume – Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) — Free MP3
  • Apol­li­naire, Guil­laume — Marie (Read by author in 1913) — Free MP3
  • Apol­li­naire, Guil­laume — Le Voyageur (Read by author in 1913) — Free MP3
  • Aragon, Louis — Elsa (read by author) — Free Stream
  • Arnold, Matthew — The Poet­ry of Matthew Arnold — Free Stream on Spo­ti­fy
  • Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach — Free Stream/Download
  • Ash­bery, John — Every­man — Free MP3
  • Ash­bery, John — “Med­i­ta­tions of a Par­rot,” “The Painter” and “The Pic­ture of Lit­tle J.A. in a Prospect of Flow­ers” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Ash­bery, John — Self-Por­­trait in a Con­vex Mir­ror — YouTube
  • Auden, W.H. — 1st Sep­tem­ber, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; “Song of the Mas­ter and Boatswain,” (read by Dylan Thomas) — YouTube
  • Auden, W.H. — 1st Sep­tem­ber, 1939 — YouTube
  • Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) — YouTube
  • Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song — Free MP3
  • Auden, W.H. — Bucol­ics and Horae Conon­i­cae (read by Auden) — Free Stream/Download
  • Auden, W.H. — Dog­ger­el by a Senior Cit­i­zen (read by Auden) — YouTube
  • Auden, W. H. — In Mem­o­ry of WB Yeats — YouTube
  • Auden, W.H. — Met­a­logue to The Mag­ic Flute (read by Auden — Free Stream/Download
  • Auden, W.H. — The Sea and The Mir­ror (read by the author) — Free Stream/Download
  • Baude­laire, Charles — Les fleurs du mal (in French) — Free Stream
  • Beck­ett, Samuel — Tail­piece and 23rd Adden­da (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Beef­heart, Cap­tain — Fallin Ditch, Skele­ton Makes Good & More (read by the author) —  YouTube
  • Blake, William — A Lit­tle Boy Lost — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — Jerusalem — Free MP3 Zip File
  • Blake, William — Laugh­ing Song — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — Lon­don — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — Pref­ace to Mil­ton — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — Pip­ing Down Val­leys Wild — Free MP3
  • Blake, William - Songs of Inno­cence and Songs of Expe­ri­ence, as read by Allen Gins­berg — Free Stream/MP3
  • Blake, William — The Chim­ney Sweep­er — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — The School Boy — Free MP3
  • Blake, William — Visions of the Daugh­ters of Albion — Free MP3
  • Borges, Jorge Luis — Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic — Free MP3
  • Borges, Jorge Luis — Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Span­ish — Spo­ti­fy
  • Borges, Jorge Luis - Plain­ness — Free Stream
  • Brad­bury, Ray — If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Bronte, Emi­ly — Antic­i­pa­tion — Free MP3
  • Bronte, Emi­ly — Encour­age­ment — Free MP3
  • Bronte, Emi­ly — Poems — Free MP3
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — 4 Hours of Bukows­ki Read­ings — Spo­ti­fy
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — At Ter­ror Street and Agony Way — Free Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Beer — Ani­mat­ed Video
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Blue­bird — YouTube Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Girl on the Esca­la­tor — Vimeo
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Hostage — Spo­ti­fy
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Mas­ter Col­lec­tion — Spo­ti­fy
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Some­thing For The Touts, The Nuns, The Gro­cery Clerks, And You — YouTube Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — The Laugh­ing Heart (read by Tom Waits) — YouTube Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) — YouTube Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukows­ki) — YouTube Audio
  • Bukows­ki, Charles — Blue­bird and Torched Out (read by Har­ry Dean Stan­ton) — YouTube Video
  • Bur­ton, Tim — The Night­mare Before Christ­mas (read by Christo­pher Lee) — YouTube Video
  • Byron - Childe Harold: Can­to III — Free MP3
  • Byron — Dark­ness — Free MP3
  • Byron — New­ton — Free MP3
  • Byron — She Walks in Beau­ty — Free MP3
  • Cage, John — Over­pop­u­la­tion and Art — Free Stream
  • Car­roll, Jim — Pray­ing Man­tis — Spo­ti­fy
  • Car­roll, Lewis — Jab­ber­wocky (read by Neil Gaiman) — YouTube
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  • Car­roll, Lewis — The Poet­ry of Lewis Car­roll — Spo­ti­fy
  • Carv­er, Ray­mond — Late Frag­ment — Free Stream
  • Cavafy, C.P. - Itha­ca (read by Sean Con­nery) — YouTube
  • Cia­r­di, John — As If: Poems New and Select­ed by John Cia­r­di (read by the author) — Spo­ti­fy
  • Cocteau, Jean — Requiem (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Cohen, Leonard — “For E.J.P” and “You Have the Lovers” (read by Cohen) — Free Stream/Download
  • Coleridge, Samuel — Kubla Khan — Free MP3
  • Coleridge, Samuel — Kubla Khan (read by Bene­dict Cum­ber­batch) — YouTube
  • Coleridge, Samuel — Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Free MP3
  • Coleridge, Samuel - The Dun­geon — Free MP3
  • Coleridge, Samuel — Poems (Read by Ralph Richard­son) — Free Spo­ti­fy
  • Collins, Bil­ly — The Best Cig­a­rette (Poet­ry col­lec­tion read by the author) — Free Spo­ti­fy
  • Collins, Bil­ly — Soap — Spo­ti­fy
  • Crane, Hart — “The Bro­ken Tow­er” and “The Hur­ri­cane” (read by Ten­nessee Williams) — Vimeo
  • Crow­ley, Aleis­ter — Poems by Aleis­ter Crow­ley (read by Aleis­ter Crow­ley) — Spo­ti­fy
  • Cum­mings, EE - Some­where I Have Nev­er Trav­elled — (read by author) — YouTube
  • Cum­mings, EE - Any­one Lived in a Pret­ty How Town — (read by author) — YouTube
  • Dante — Infer­no (read by John Cia­r­di) — Spo­ti­fy
  • De Troyes, Chre­tien — Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart– Stream
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — An 8 Hour Read­ing of Emi­ly Dick­in­son Poet­­ry- YouTube
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — The Poems of Emi­ly Dick­in­son, Series 1 — Free iTunes — Free MP3
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — The Poems of Emi­ly Dick­in­son, Series 2 — Free MP3
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — Poems & Let­ters — Spo­ti­fy
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — Because I Could Not Stop for Death — Free MP3
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — Hope Is the Thing With Feath­ers — Free MP3
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — ‘I Start­ed Early–Took My Dog’ — YouTube
  • Dick­in­son, Emi­ly — There’s a cer­tain Slant of light” — Free Stream
  • Donne, John — Death, Be Not Proud — Free Stream/MP3
  • Donne, John — The Good-mor­row — Free Stream/MP3
  • Donne, John — The Sunne Ris­ing — Free MP3
  • Ehrmann, Max — Desider­a­ta (Read by Leonard Nimoy) — YouTube
  • Eliot, T.S. — Four Quar­tets (Read by T.S. Eliot) — YouTube
  • Eliot, T.S. — Four Quar­tets (Read by Alec Guin­ness) — YouTube
  • Eliot, T.S. — Jour­ney of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) — YouTube
  • Eliot, T.S. — Old Pos­sum’s Book of Prac­ti­cal Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) — Spo­ti­fy playlist
  • Eliot, T.S. — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
  • Eliot, T.S. — The Waste Land — Free MP3
    • Lis­ten to read­ing by TS Eliot — YouTube 
    • Hear read­ing by Jere­my Irons and Eileen Atkins — Stream
  • Eliot, T.S. — T.S. Eliot Read­ing Poems and Cho­rus­es — Spo­ti­fy
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind — Spo­ti­fy
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence — Selec­tions from A Coney Island of the Mind (read by author) — Free MP3 — Free Stream
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence — Base­ball Can­to — Free MP3/Stream
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence — Evil — Free MP3/Stream
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence — ‘The First and the Last of Every­thing’ (read by author) — Free Stream
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence — “Under­wear” (read by author) — YouTube
  • Fer­linghet­ti, Lawrence - Wil­fred Funk (read by author) — Free MP3/Stream
  • Frost, Robert — A Line Storm Song — Free MP3
  • Frost, Robert — My But­ter­fly — Free MP3
  • Frost, Robert — Octo­ber — Free MP3
  • Frost, Robert — Stop­ping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) — YouTube
  • Frost, Robert — The Gift Out­right (read by author) — YouTube
  • Frost, Robert — “The Road Not Tak­en,” “The Pas­ture,” “Mow­ing,” “Birch­es,” “After Apple-Pick­­ing,” and “The Tuft of Flow­ers” (read by the author)  — Free Stream
  • Frost, Robert — Robert Frost Reads His Poet­ry — Free Spo­ti­fy
  • Gaiman, Neil — The Mush­room Hunters (read by Aman­da Palmer) — Sound­cloud
  • Gins­berg, Allen — A Super­mar­ket in Cal­i­for­nia (read by Gins­berg) — Free MP3
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Amer­i­ca (read by Gins­berg) — Free YouTube Stream
  • Gins­berg, Allen — First Blues: Rags, Bal­lads and Har­mo­ni­um Songs — Spo­ti­fy
  • Gins­berg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cot­tage in Berke­ley, and Super­mar­ket in Cal­i­for­nia (read by Gins­berg) — Free MP3/Stream
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Howl (read by Gins­berg, 1959) — YouTube
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Howl (first record­ed read­ing of Howl by Gins­berg, 1956) — Free Stream
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Howl (read by James Fran­co) — YouTube
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Kad­dish and oth­er works (read by Gins­berg) — Free Stream
  • Gins­berg , Allen — Mind Breaths (read by Gins­berg) — Free Stream/Download
  • Gins­berg, Allen — Sun­flower Sutra  (read by Gins­berg) — Free MP3
  • Gins­berg, Allen — The Last Word on First Blues — Spo­ti­fy
  • Gins­berg, Allen — The Lion for Real (read by Gins­berg) — Free on Spo­ti­fy
  • Gins­berg, Allen — “The Shroud­ed Stranger Of The Night,” “Sweet Levin­sky,” and “Stan­zas: Writ­ten at Night in Radio City.” — Free Stream/Download
  • Gins­berg, Allen — “What would you do if you lost it?” (read by Gins­berg) — Free Stream/Download
  • Gins­berg, Allen - Witchi­ta Vor­tex Sutra — Spo­ti­fy
  • Giorno, John — The Death of William Bur­roughs — Free Stream
  • Hardy, Thomas — Poems (read by Richard Bur­ton) — Spo­ti­fy
  • Hem­ing­way, Ernest — Sec­ond Poem to Mary (read by Hem­ing­way) — Free YouTube
  • Hen­ley, Ernest — Invic­tus — Free YouTube
  • Hitch­cock, Robyn — “If Death is Not the End” (Read by Alan Rick­man) — Free Stream
  • Homer, The Odyssey — Free Stream/MP3 Down­load — Free iTunes
  • Hugh­es, Langston — Langston Hugh­es Reads Langston Hugh­es — Spo­ti­fy
  • Hugh­es, Langston - The Dream Keep­er and Oth­er Poems of Langston Hugh­es (read by Hugh­es) — Spo­ti­fy
  • Hugh­es, Langston - The Glo­ry of Negro His­to­ry — Spo­ti­fy
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hugh­es) — YouTube
  • Hugh­es, Langston — The Voice of Langston Hugh­es — Spo­ti­fy
  • Hugh­es, Ted — Sylvia Plath, Ted Hugh­es & Peter Porter Read Their Poet­ry — Spo­ti­fy
  • Keats, John – To Autumn — Free MP3
  • Keats, John – Ode on a Gre­cian Urn — Free MP3
  • Keats, John – Ode to a Nightin­gale (as recit­ed loose­ly by F. Scott Fitzger­ald) — YouTube
  • Keats, John — Ode to a Nightin­gale (as read by Bene­dict Cum­ber­batch) — YouTube
  • Keats, John – On First Look­ing into Chapman’s Homer — YouTube
  • Keats, John – When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be — Free MP3
  • Ker­ouac, Jack — 4 Albums with Ker­ouac Recit­ing Poet­ry & Verse — Spo­ti­fy
  • Kipling, Rud­yard — If (read by Den­nis Hop­per) — YouTube
  • Kipling, Rud­yard – If (read by Michael Caine) — YouTube
  • Kipling, Rud­yard – My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) — YouTube
  • Kipling, Rud­yard – The Gods of the Copy­book Head­ings — Free MP3
  • Kipling, Rud­yard – The Way Through the Woods — Free MP3
  • Lev­er­tov, Denise — City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Mar­riage, To the Muse, The Cer­tain­ty (read by the author) — Sound­Cloud
  • Levine, PhilipThe Feed They Lion (read by Philip Levine) — YouTube
  • Lor­ca, Fed­eri­co Gar­cia (Read by Pat­ti Smith) — YouTube
  • Longfel­low, Hen­ry Wadsworth — Select­ed Works — Free MP3
  • McCrae, John — “In Flan­ders Fields” (read by Leonard Cohen) — YouTube
  • Melville, Her­man – Ball’s Bluff — Free Stream
  • Mer­win, W.S. — After a Storm (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
  • Mer­win, W.S. — Berry­man (read by Jan­na Levin — Free Stream
  • Mil­ton, John – On His Blind­ness — Free MP3
  • Mul­ti­ple Authors — 19 Cen­tu­ry French Poet­ry, Read in French by Paul Mankin — Spo­ti­fy
  • Mul­ti­ple Authors — 20th Cen­tu­ry French Poet­ry, Nar­rat­ed by Paul Mankin — Spo­ti­fy
  • Mul­ti­ple Authors — French African Poet­ry, Read in French by Paul Mankin — Spo­ti­fy
  • Nabokov, Vladimir — The Uni­ver­si­ty Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) — Free Stream
  • Nash, Ogden — Christ­mas with Ogden Nash — Spo­ti­fy
  • Nash, Ogden — Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash — Spo­ti­fy
  • Neru­da, Pablo — First Poet­ry Read­ing in the US (1966) — Free Stream
  • Neru­da, Pablo — First Poet­ry Read­ing in Eng­lish (1971) — Free Stream
  • Neru­da, Pablo — Birth (Read by Neru­da) — Free Stream
  • Neru­da, Pablo — Keep­ing Qui­et (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) — Free Stream
  • Neru­da, Pablo — Pablo Neru­da Lee a Pablo Neru­da — Spo­ti­fy
  • O’Hara, Frank — Ani­mals (read by Zadie Smith) — Free Stream
  • Oliv­er, Mary — “The Sum­mer Day,” “Lit­tle Dog’s Rhap­sody in the Night,” “Many Miles” and “Night and the Riv­er” (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Plath, Sylvia — Sylvia Plath read­ing her poet­ry (23 poems read by the author) — YouTube
  • Plath, Sylvia — Ariel (read by author) — YouTube Stream
  • Plath, Sylvia — A Birth­day Present (read by the author) — Free MP3/Stream
  • Plath, Sylvia — Dad­dy (read by author) — YouTube
  • Plath, Sylvia — Fever 103 (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Plath, Sylvia — Lady Lazarus (read by author) — YouTube
  • Plath, Sylvia — Morn­ing Song (read by Meryl Streep) — Sound­Could
  • Plath, Sylvia — Spin­ster — Sound­cloud
  • Plath, Sylvia — The Appli­cant (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Poe, Edgar Allan – Annabel Lee — Free MP3
  • Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christo­pher Walken) — YouTube
  • Poe, Edgar Allan — The Raven — Free MP3
  • Pope, Alexan­der - Nature and Art — Free Stream
  • Pope, Alexan­der – The Qui­et Life — Free Stream
  • Pound, Ezra - Can­ti­co del sole — Free MP3 [text]
  • Pound, Ezra - Can­to XVII (“So that the vine burst from my fin­gers’) — Free MP3
  • Pound, Ezra - Can­to XXX — Free MP3
  • Pound, Ezra — Can­to XLV — Free MP3
  • Pound, Ezra — Can­to LVI — Free MP3
  • Pound, Ezra — Homage to Sex­tus Prop­er­tius, Sec­tion VI (read by author) — Free MP3
  • Pound, Ezra — Ses­ti­na: Altaforte (read by author) — YouTube
  • Pound, Ezra — The Sea­far­er  (read by author) — Free MP3
  • Rexroth, Ken­neth — “One Hun­dred Poems from the Chi­nese” and “In Defense of the Earth” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Rich, Adri­enne — Mourn­ing Poem, Spring Thun­der, White Night and oth­er poems (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
  • Rich, Adri­enne - “Plan­e­tar­i­um” (read by astro­physi­cist Jan­na Levin) — Sound­cloud
  • Rich, Adri­enne - “Pow­er” (read by astro­physi­cist Roseanne Cash) — Sound­cloud
  • Rich, Adri­enne — What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) — Sound­cloud
  • Rim­baud, Arthur – Illu­mi­na­tions — Free MP3 Zip File
  • Rumi — Poems read by  Til­da Swin­ton, Madon­na, Robert Bly & Cole­man Barks — YouTube/Soundcloud
  • Sand­burg, Carl — A Lin­coln Album: Read­ings by Carl Sand­burg — Spo­ti­fy
  • Sand­burg, Carl - Chica­go — Free Stream
  • Sand­burg, Carl - The Peo­ple Yes — Spo­ti­fy
  • Sas­soon, Siegfried — After­math (Read by Jere­my Irons) — YouTube
  • Sex­ton, Anne — Wait­ing to Die (read by author) — YouTube
  • Sex­ton, Anne — “Her Kind,” “The Ambi­tion Bird,” “Ring­ing the Bells,” “Music Swims Back to Me,” and “The Truth the Dead Know” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Sex­ton, Anne — “With Mer­cy for the Greedy,” “The Star­ry Night,” “Let­ter Writ­ten on a Fer­ry While Cross­ing Long Island Sound,” and “Self in 1958,” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Sex­ton, Anne — Divorce, Thy Name is Woman,” “Gods Mak­ing a Liv­ing,” “Jesus Cooks,” “Jesus Walk­ing,” and “The Fury of Over­shoes” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Sex­ton, Anne — “Row­ing,” “Rid­ing the Ele­va­tor Into the Sky,” “The Play,” “The Row­ing Endeth,” “Us,” and “The Touch” (read by the author) — Free Stream
  • Sex­ton, Anne — What’s That — Spo­ti­fy
  • Schiller, Friedrich — Poet­ry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in Ger­man by Kin­s­ki — Spo­ti­fy
  • Shake­speare, William – Shakespeare’s Son­nets — Free MP3s
  • Shel­ley, Per­cy Bysshe – Adon­ais — Free MP3
  • Shel­ley, Per­cy Bysshe – Ozy­man­dias of Egypt — Free MP3
  • Shel­ley, Per­cy Bysshe – Ozy­man­dias (read by Bryan Cranston) — Free YouTube
  • Shel­ley, Per­cy Bysshe — Var­i­ous Poems (read by Vin­cent Price) — Free Spo­ti­fy
  • Smith, Pat­ti — Read­ing at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty of Poet­ry That Would Become Hors­es (1975) — YouTube
  • Smith, Pat­ti — Read­ing of 12 Poems From “Sev­enth Heav­en” (1972) — YouTube
  • Stein, Gertrude — A Valen­tine to Sher­wood Ander­son (read by Gertrude Stein) — Free MP3
  • Stevens, Wal­lace — “Cre­dences of Sum­mer” and “An Ordi­nary Evening in New Haven” (read by the author) — Free Stream/Download
  • Stevens, Wal­lace — “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “The Poem that Took the Place of a Moun­tain,” and “Vacan­cy in the Park” (read by the author) — .au for­mat - .gsm for­mat -.ra for­mat
  • Szym­bors­ka, Wisława — Life While-You-Wait (Read by Aman­da Palmer) — Sound­cloud
  • Ten­nyson, Alfred Lord – Break, Break, Break — Free MP3
  • Ten­nyson, Alfred Lord – The Charge of the Light Brigade — YouTube
  • Ten­nyson, Alfred Lord – The Lotos-Eaters — Free MP3
  • Thomas, Dylan — Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poet­ry — Spo­ti­fy
  • Thomas, Dylan — Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden — Free
  • Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas — Spo­ti­fy
  • Thomas, Dylan — Richard Bur­ton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas — Spo­ti­fy
  • Thomas, Dylan — Bal­lad of the Long-Legged Bait’ and 14 Oth­er Poems (read by Richard Bur­ton) — YouTube
  • Thomas, Dylan — Do Not Go Gen­tle Into That Good Night (read by the author) — Free MP3/Stream
  • Thomas, Dylan — Do Not Go Gen­tle Into That Good Night (read by the Sir Antho­ny Hop­kins) — Free YouTube
  • Thomas, Dylan — The Wild West (read by the author) — Free MP3/Stream
  • Thomas, Dylan — Under Milk Wood (read by the author) — Part 1Part 2
  • Updike, John – Rain­bow (read by author) — Free Stream
  • Valéry, Paul — “Frag­ment Du Nar­cisse” (read by author) — Free Stream
  • Vir­gil – Aeneid — Free MP3 Zip Down­load
  • Whit­man, Walt – O Cap­tain! My Cap­tain! — Free MP3
  • Whit­man, Walt – Leaves of Grass — Free MP3 Zip File — Free Stream
  • Whit­man, Walt – Song of Myself and Oth­er Poems — Free Stream/MP3
  • Whit­man, Walt — Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) — Free Stream/Download
  • Whit­man, Walt — Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) — Free Stream
  • Whit­man, Walt — Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) — Free Stream
  • Whit­man, Walt — Song of Myself (read by Eric Forsythe/U. of Iowa) — Free Stream
  • Wilbur, Richard — A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Oth­er Poems (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
  • Wilde, Oscar – The Bal­lad of Read­ing Gaol — Free MP3/Stream
  • Williams, Ten­nessee — Select­ed Poems — Free Stream/Download
  • Williams, Willam Car­los — Select­ed Poems (read by poet 1954 ) — Free MP3
  • Williams, William Car­los — 39 Poems Read for The Library of Con­gress Record­ing Lab­o­ra­to­ry. May 5, 1945 — Free MP3
  • Williams, William Car­los — The Red Wheel­bar­row, Tract, The Defec­tive Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coro­nal, To Elsie, The Wind Increas­es, Clas­sic Scene (read by poet 1954) — Free
  • Wordsworth, William - Daf­fodils (Read by Jere­my Irons) — YouTube
  • Wordsworth, William — The Last of the Flock — Free MP3
  • Wordsworth, William – Soli­tary Reaper — Free MP3
  • Wordsworth, William — Tin­tern Abbey — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler - William But­ler Reads His Own Work — Spo­ti­fy
  • Yeats, William But­ler — The Lake Isle of Inn­is­free, The Fid­dler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Moth­er, Coole and Bal­lylee (read by the author) — YouTube
  • Yeats, William But­ler – Aedh Wish­es for the Cloths of Heav­en — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler – Byzan­tium — Real Media
  • Yeats, William But­ler – Lake Isle of Innes­free (read by the author) — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler – Lake Isle of Innes­free (read by Antho­ny Hop­kins) — YouTube
  • Yeats, William But­ler — Sail­ing to Byzan­tium — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler – The Cold Heav­en — Free Stream/MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler — The Fid­dler of Dooney (read by the author) — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler — The Song of the Old Moth­er (read by the author) — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler — To my Heart, bid­ding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) — YouTube
  • Yeats, William But­ler — When You Are Old — Free MP3
  • Yeats, William But­ler — When You Are Old (Read by Col­in Far­rell) — YouTube

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