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Job Work

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Job Work by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2019.
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James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". (Wikipedia)
Retrospection

George A. Baker, Jr.
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Retrospection by George A. Baker Jr..
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 13, 2019.
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This Fortnightly Poem is taken from POINT LACE AND DIAMONDS by George Baker Jr.
My Lot

Joseph Horatio Chant
Joseph Horatio Chant was born at Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, England. His parents moved to Canada in 1840, and settled in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Chant attended schools in the area and upon graduation taught for two years in Cathcart, Burford township. In 1864 he attended Victoria College and entered the ministry, being ordained in 1868.
Christy and The Pipers

Jean McKishnie Blewett
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 4, 2018.
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This poem, set in Scotland, tells of a woman's reaction to the Pipes . ( David Lawrence)
Poet's Hat

Robert F. Murray
St. Andrews, but for its Town Council and its School Board, is a quiet place; and the University, except during the progress of a Rectorial Election, is peaceable and well-conducted. I hope these verses may so far reflect St. Andrews life as to be found pleasant, if not over exciting. This poem is taken from "The Scarlett Gown: Being Verses by A St. Andrews Man"
I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Alan Seeger
This book .... contains the record of a short life, into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration—of the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given to most men, even of high vitality, to extract from a life of twice the length. Alan Seeger had barely passed his twenty-eighth birthday, when, charging up to the German trenches on the field of Belloy-en-Santerre, his "escouade" of the Foreign Legion was caught in a deadly flurry of machine-gun fire, and he fell, with most of his comrades, ... To his friends the loss was grievous, to literature it was—we shall never know how great, but assuredly not small.
Canadian Summer Evening

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression if we gave it to be understood that all her time was passed in the writing of either poems or tales. Far from it. They constituted but one phase in a life nobly, yet unostentatiously, consecrated to the duties of home, of society, of charity and of religion. Mrs. Leprohon was much more than either a poet or a novelist—she was, also, in the highest sense, a woman, a lady. Had she never written a verse of poetry or a page of prose, she would still have been lovingly remembered for what she was as wife, as mother, as friend.
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Old Boats

Theodosia Garrison
There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, 1917.
Ghosts of Night

Jean McKishnie Blewett
Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.Blewett published her first novel, Out of the Depths in 1879. In 1896, she won a $600 prize from the Chicago Times-Herald for her poem "Spring".She was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities. During this time she regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism.
Comfort in the Night

Jean Ingelow
Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist.
Old Inn

Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion.
Christmas Conversion

Jean McKishnie Blewett
Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.

Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities. During this time she regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism. She used the pseudonym Katherine Kent for some of her writing.
Maiden To Her Mirror

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Maiden To Her Mirror by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 7, 2021.
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Our maiden reflects on growing old. - David Lawrence
Plea For Our Northern Winters

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Plea For Our Northern Winters by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 7, 2021.
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Mrs. Leprohon was a Canadian poetess, who also wrote fiction which won her most popular success, no less than four of her tales were translated into French.
Dreamers

Theodosia Garrison
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Dreamers by Theodosia Garrison.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 9, 2021.
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Theodosia Garrison was a New Jersey poet and a friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, she attained a high level of popularity during her lifetime.
Chore Time

Jean McKishnie Blewett
Jean McKishnie Blewett (4 November 1862 – 19 August 1934) was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.
Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, she published a booklet titled Heart Stories to benefit war charities. During this time she regularly lectured on topics such as temperance and suffragism. She used the pseudonym Katherine Kent for some of her writing.
After her death, fellow female journalist Bride Broder wrote in tribute:"There is a simplicity about Mrs. Blewett's prose and verse that has made a wide appeal, and her gay-hearted attitude to life, the humorous twists she gave to little things, made her very welcome as a speaker at women's gatherings. In all her writings she touched on the things that appeal to women everywhere and, in doing so, won the admiration of men readers also." (Wikipedia)
Hunter and His Dying Steed

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians."
Afternoon in July

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians."

Leprohon's novels were popular in both English and French Canada in the late 19th-century, and were still being reprinted in French in the mid-1920s. They gradually went out of fashion in the early 20th-century, as literary styles changed.
"Since 1970, however,"says the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "the life and works of Rosanna Eleanor Mullins Leprohon have been frequently noted and increasingly praised by critics and scholars of both English-and French-Canadian literature, and new editions of her works have been published."
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The

Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 18, 2011.
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909.
Red Flower

Henry van Dyke
Volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.

Dr. Henry van Dyke was an American author, lecturer, ambassador and pastor. He was in charge of the committee which wrote The Book of Common Worship of 1906, the first printed Presbyterian liturgy.
He wrote many poems, short stories, hymns and essays, often with religious themes.
This particular poem, written after the outbreak of World War I but set beforehand, contrasts the natural beauty of the summer before the war with the horror and destruction that is to follow.
Flood-Tide Of Flowers

Henry van Dyke
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Flood-Tide Of Flowers by Henry Van Dyke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 5th, 2009.
Love's Wantonness

Lodge, Thomas
Volunteers bring you 10 different recordings of Love's Wantonness by Thomas Lodge. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 24th, 2008.
Travels by the Fireside

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses.
Winter Evening

Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Before the Mirror

Elizabeth Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist. She is most widely known today as the author of The Morgesons (1862), her first of three novels. Her other two novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces.
Don Quixote

Madison Cawein
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving his pay so he could return home to write.His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky".

Note: In Greek mythology, Hippocrene was the name of a spring on Mt. Helicon. It was sacred to the Muses and was formed by the hooves of Pegasus. Its name literally translates as "Horse's Fountain" and the water was supposed to bring forth poetic inspiration when imbibed.
Premonition

Bliss Carman
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Premonition by Bliss Carman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 27, 2019.
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William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. (Wikipedia)
Transposed Seasons

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Transposed Seasons by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 3, 2019.
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Mr. Cawein's landscape is not the sea, nor the desert, nor the mountain, but the lovely inland levels of his Kentucky. His work is almost wholly objective. A dash more of human import mixed into the beauty and melody of his poetry would rank him with Lowell and the other great lyrists of our elder choir." (Rose de Vaux-Royer from the Forward of The Cup Of Comus, Fact and Fancy by Madison Cawein)
Trifles

John Charles McNeill
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Trifles by John Charles McNeill.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 1, 2019.
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Many years before the position was established, poet and journalist John Charles McNeill was unofficially called North Carolina's Poet Laureate and while official permission from the legislature to name a poet laureate came in 1935, no one was actually appointed to the position until 1948.
Nocturne: In Anjou

Bliss Carman
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Nocturne: In Anjou by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 10, 2019.
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Richard Hovey collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death. Hovey and Carman were members of the "Visionists" social circle along with F. Holland Day and Herbert Copeland, who published the "Vagabondia" series. (Wikipedia)
Photograph

John Charles McNeill
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Photograph by John Charles McNeill.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 11, 2019.
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McNeill was considered the unofficial poet laureate of his home state North Carolina until this position was established officially after World War II. His poetry enjoys enduring popularity and is favored by teachers and students for its accessibility.
Canada, My Land

William Mackay MacKeracher
W. M. MacKeracher was a Canadian poet. This poem celebrating Canada's 150th year of Confederation is taken from Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse by William M. MacKeracher.
Refuge

Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Hearse-Horse

Bliss Carman
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hearse-Horse by Bliss Carman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2018.
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Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years.
Richard Hovey was an American poet.. He collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death. Hovey and Carman were members of the "Visionists" social circle along with F. Holland Day and Herbert Copeland, who published the "Vagabondia" series.
Home Songs

John Charles McNeill
McNeill died at an early age of 36 years, but during his brief life he established himself as the foremost literary figure of North Carolina and was hailed for many years by popular acclaim as the state's unofficial poet laureate.
Where's The Use

Robert F. Murray
Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published occasionally in periodicals.
Moon To The Sun

Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth (the artist Lady Elizabeth Butler, 1846–1933, whose husband was Sir William Francis Butler). The work was warmly praised by Ruskin, although it received little public notice. Ruskin especially singled out the sonnet "Renunciation" for its beauty and delicacy.
Late Good Night

Robert F. Murray
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps, faints by the way. Mr. R. F. Murray, the author of The Scarlet Gown, was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks. To him, indeed, success and the rewards of this world, money, and praise, did by no means seem things to be snatched at. To him success meant earning by his pen the very modest sum which sufficed for his wants, and the leisure necessary for serious essays in poetry. Fate denied him even this, in spite of his charming natural endowment of humour, of tenderness, of delight in good letters, and in nature. He died young; he was one of those whose talent matures slowly, and he died before he came into the full possession of his intellectual kingdom. He had the ambition to excel,a?e? a??ste?e??, as the Homeric motto of his University runs, and he was on the way to excellence when his health broke down. He lingered for two years and passed away. (introductory MEMOIR by ANDREW LANG to 'ROBERT F. MURRAY (author of the scarlet gown) HIS POEMS'. )
Woodman, Spare that Tree!

George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.
In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!"[10] His songs in particular were popular enough that Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia promised Morris $50, sight unseen, for any work he wanted to publish in the periodical. "Woodman, Spare that Tree!" was first published in the January 17, 1837, issue of the Mirror under the title "The Oak" and was that year set to music by Henry Russell before being reprinted under its more common title in 1853.
To My Dream-Love

Walter Richard Cassels
Walter Richard Cassels is the speculated author of the anonymous work Supernatural Religion.He wrote poetry and was an art collector. Never married, he died in London on 10 June 1907.
Summer Morning

Robert F. Murray
He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his life. Many of us have trod in his path, and, by some kindness of fate, have found from it a sunnier exit into longer days and more fortunate conditions. Others have followed this well-beaten road to the same early and quiet end as his. (from HIS POEMS: WITH MEMOIR by Andrew Lang)
Song of the Sewing-Machine

George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's songs, "which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated". In April 1840, Poe wrote that Morris was "very decidedly, our best writer of songs—and, in saying this, I mean to assign him a high rank as poet". Willis wrote of Morris: "He is just what poets would be if they sang like birds without criticism... nothing can stop a song of his". (Wikipedia)
Dr. Sam

Eugene Field
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of poetry followed and he became well known for his light-hearted poems for children, among the most famous of which are "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "The Duel" (which is perhaps better known as "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"). Equally famous is his poem about the death of a child, "Little Boy Blue". Field also published a number of short stories, including "The Holy Cross" and "Daniel and the Devil."
Farewells

Abram Joseph Ryan
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Farewells by Abram Joseph Ryan.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2019.
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Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and, less frequently, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy."
Ghosts of Growth

George Parsons Lathrop
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Ghosts of Growth by George Parsons Lathrop.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 20, 2019.
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The poet describes the beauties of nature after a snow fall, and the result of the mid-day sun. (D Lawrence)
Sleet

Nannie Rebecca Glass
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Sleet by Nannie Rebecca Glass.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 2, 2020.
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This Weekly Poem is taken from The Mountain Spring and Other Poems, pub 1913
Dismissed

George Pope Morris
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dismissed by George Pope Morris .
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 15, 2020.
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"I suppose she was right in rejecting my suit,
But why did she kick me down stairs?"
Halleck's "Discarded." (poem intro)
Bee

H. P. Nichols
Volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Bee by H. P. Nichols.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 21, 2020.
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Some practical advice to a child, taken from Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories. (1851)
New Year's Eve

Eugene Field
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of New Year's Eve by Eugene Field.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 27, 2020.
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This poem is taken from Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field
Wasted Day

Robert F. Murray
Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published occasionally in periodicals.
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