The Hill

by Edgar Lee Masters. From Spoon River Anthology.

Life

by George Herbert.

Hohenlinden

by Thomas Campbell.

Go, Lovely Rose

by Edmund Waller.

A Thunderstorm in Town

by Thomas Hardy.

A Pinch of Salt

by Robert Graves.

Why Is My Verse

Sonnet 76 by William Shakespeare.

So Are You To My Thoughts

Sonnet 75 by William Shakespeare,

When I Consider Everything That Grows

Sonnet 15 by William Shakespeare.

When I Do Count the Clock

Sonnet 12 by William Shakespeare.

When Forty Winters

Sonnet 2 by William Shakespeare.

Weary With Toil

Sonnet 27 by William Shakespeare.

Against My Love Shall Be

Sonnet 63 by William Shakespeare.

Alack What Poverty

Sonnet 103 by William Shakespeare.

Cupid Laid By His Brand

Sonnet 153 by William Shakespeare.

Full Many a Glorious Morning

Sonnet 33 by William Shakespeare.

No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Gone

Sonnet 71 by William Shakespeare

So Is It Not With Me

Sonnet 21 by William Shakespeare.

Some Glory In Their Birth

Sonnet 91 by William Shakespeare.

The Expense of Spirit

by William Shakespeare.

When My Love Swears ...

by William Shakespeare.

Grass

by Walt Whitman.

I Broke the Spell

by William Cullen Bryant.

Delia II

by Samuel Daniel.

Delia I

by Samuel Daniel.

Are They Shadows ...?

by Samuel Daniel.

Leda and the Swan

by William Butler Yeats.

Prologue to Act IV from Henry V

by William Shakespeare.

Ulysses' Degree Speech from Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare.

Paul Revere's Ride

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Concord Hymn

by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

First Player's Speech for Hamlet

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2, lines1542-1592.
A troupe of traveling players have come to Hamlet's castle at Elsinore. Prince Hamlet greets them with gusto, even beginning to recite a speech of Aeneas' tale to Dido he once heard the head of the troupe perform. After delivering a handful of lines with vigor, Hamlet then asks the First Player to continue from where he left off.

Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Performed by Bob Gonzalez.

Sonnet 73: That Time of Year

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Performed by Bob Gonzalez.

Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

Sonnet 19: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent

by John Milton. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

Little Trotty Wagtail

by John Clare. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez

Summer and Winter

by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

To the Muses

by William Blake (1757-1827). Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

by Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753). Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

I Play for Seasons, Not Eternities

by George Meredith. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

The Nightingale

by Sir Philip Sydney. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

Rosalind's Madrigal

by Thomas Lodge (1556?–1625). Performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode.

Shakespeare

A paean to the immortal bard of Stratford-upon-Avon by Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold. Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez.

The Immortal Part

by A.E. Housman (1859-1936). Performed by rhapsode Bob Gonzalez. Alfred Edward Housman is primarily known for his volume of poems, A Shropshire Lad, of which this poem is number 43.