50 CLASSIC POEMS READ BY
12 CELEBRITIES:
MORGAN FREEMAN, JODIE
FOSTER, GARY SINISE & MORE
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50
Classic Poems Read By 12 Celebrities:
Morgan
Freeman, Jodie Foster, Gary Sinise & more
From
John Lithgow, The Poets' Corner, 2007:
1:
Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
read
by Eileen Atkins 0:06
2:
W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts
read
by Jodie Foster 2:13
3:
John Berryman, Henry's Confession
read
by Gary Sinise 3:41
4:
Elizabeth Bishop, Filling Station
read
by Glenn Close 4:55
5:
William Blake, The Tyger
read
by Helem Mirren 6:48
6:
Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool
read
by Morgan Freeman 8:23
7:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
read
by Helen Mirren 9:08
8:
Robert Burns, To a Mouse
read
by Billy Connolly 10:18
9:
George Gordon, Lord Byron, I would I were a careless child
read
by Robert Sean Leonard 12:29
10:
Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
read
by Eileen Atkins 15:17
11:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue
read
by Lynn Redgrave 16:48
12:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
read
by Robert Sean Leonard 19:31
13:
Hart Crane, To Brooklyn Bridge
read
by Sam Waterston 22:13
14:
e.e. cummings, if everything happens that can't be done
read
by Eileen Atkins 25:17
15:
Emily Dickinson, 1263 (There is no Frigate like a Book)
read
by Glenn Close 26:41
16:
John Donne, Song (Go and catch a falling star)
read
by John Lithgow 27:14
17:
T.S. Eliot, Rhapsody on a Windy Night
read
by Morgan Freeman 28:28
18:
Robert Frost, Birches
read
by John Lithgow 32:01
19:
William S. Gilbert, Love Unrequited, or The Nightmare Song
read
by John Lithgow 35:40
20:
Allen Ginsberg, A Supermarket in California
read
by Gary Sinise 39:16
21:
Robert Herrick, The Beggar to Mab, The Fairy Queen
read
by Billy Connolly 41:48
22:
Gerald Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
read
by Kathy Bates 43:09
23:
A.E. Housman, When I Was One and Twenty
read
by Robert Sean Leonard 44:02
24:
Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues
read
by Morgan Freeman 44:57
25:
Randall Jarrell, Death of a Ball Turret Gunner
read
by Gary Sinise 46:42
26:
Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Supper
read
by Robert Sean Leonard 47:19
27:
John Keats, To Autumn
read
by Lynn Redgrave 49:52
28:
Philip Larkin, Days
read
by Susan Sarandon 52:00
29:
Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat
read
by Billy Connolly 52:39
30:
H.W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life
read
by John Lithgow 54:10
31:
Robert Lowell, The Public Garden
read
by Billy Conolly 55:58
32:
Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress
read
by John Lithgow 57:39
33:
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love is Not All
read
by Jodie Foster 1:00:00
34:
Marianne Moore, Poetry
read
by Kathy Bates 1:01:07
35:
Ogden Nash, No Doctor's Today, Thank You
read
by John Lithgow 1:02:55
36:
Dorothy Parker, Afternoon
read
by Glenn Close 1:04:29
37:
Edgar Allen Poe, Annabel Lee
read
by Sam Waterston 1:05:27
38:
Ezra Pound, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
read
by Jodie Foster 1:07:50
39:
Christina Rosetti, Up-Hill
read
by Helen Mirren 1:09:43
40:
Carl Sandburg, Chicago
read
by Gary Sinise 1:10:56
41:
Shakespeare, Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun
read
by Lynn Redgrave 1:13:04
42:
Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark
read
by Glenn Close 1:14:28
43:
Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand)
read
by Susan Sarandon 1:18:55
44:
Gertrude Stein, If I Told Him
read
by Kathy Bates 1:20:00
45:
Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
read
by Kathy Bates 1:24:28
46:
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
read
by Susan Sarandon 1:25:25
47:
Walt Whitman, There was a Child went Forth
read
by Sam Waterston 1:26:44
48:
William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow
read
by Jodie Foster 1:31:38
49:
William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
read
by Helen Mirren 1:32:06
50:
William Butler Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
read by Eileen Atkins 1:33:25Grateful thanks to Poetry Reading, John Lithgow, The Poets' Corner, 2007 and all the celebrities who recite these poems and YouTube.
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