50 Classic Poems Read By 12 Celebrities: Morgan Freeman, Jodie Foster, Gary Sinise & more

[@ralani5]

I fell asleep while listening to this (not because it was boring but because it was very soothing). I awoke now and then to hear it still. Beautiful.

[@luanabettencourt2712]

😅😅😅

[@Croalmiange]

This is what I listen to when I can't sleep

[@yuhansungscoffee]

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 1:33:25 You are welcome :D

[@Voldycssm19]

Thanks

[@NehaM14]

thank you

[@greenworm4731]

you dont know how much u saved me

[@unknownroman07]

This helps a lot you deserve so much credit thank you!

[@charlesdonnelly7768]

this is already in the description...

[@tinawalker8174]

What a treat. I spent this afternoon listening to this beautiful selection of poetry. There is nothing like poetry to soothe the soul!!

[@artemisvoltaire4743]

Iisten to parts of this almost daily for the last 4 months. Thank you ever so for sharing this collection.

[@KATEWL44]

The best ever morning walking companion

[@lisamuir4261]

I listened to this yesterday and again early this morning. I was abke to see and decpher a bit more. So much i have not heard as well as remembering certain ones introduced in my high school college prep classes. So much depth.

[@elikeenan136]

This audiobook helped me love poetry. Get it from your library (or wherever) it's amazing. And Lithgow's commentary and additions elevate the experience. I listen to it at least 6 times a year. 10/10

[@theculturedbumpkin]

That’s awesome! I just now found it and am loving it

[@4musikable]

Beautiful voices reading wonderful poetry ❤️. Thank you.

[@BUKCOLLECTOR]

Very much enjoyed. Great variety of notable poets and readings. I, too, am a poet specializing in Japanese forms: i. e. haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku tribute poem to Matsuo Bashō’s frog poem with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my haiku poem among her top 10 haiku poems of all time! What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al

[@melokc7257]

If everything happens that can't be done. Really spoke to me. ty for posting it.

[@LeoSerrano2558]

Great collection, thank you

[@jewelsmickey1265]

I have so enjoyed this!!

[@TimGreigPhotography]

Wonderful selection

[@dwanderful1]

Thank you great selection and very well read

[@Lobster16763]

Invisible yet tangible wonders of mankind. Those were the days where humans used to ‘live’ life to it’s fullest beyond money, power and other material substances. Truly, immortals. 🌿

[@eliasward9900]

I'm not sure

[@chickadeeproductions]

I wandered lonely as a cloud... this line up is great to listen to in bed late at night or in the morning.

[@maralkilidjian3224]

Or listening shirley Bassey thundering: Alone again,naturally

[@dwanderful1]

Great selection thank you

[@이수인의시와시낭송]

Wonderful and fantastic recital! It feels different from Korean poetry readings.

[@rozaSkroza]

as a korean language and culture learner, I would kindly ask you, could you recommend me something similar, but korean? korean poetry?

[@JessicaCaliGirl]

So Beautiful; thank you!

[@357CLOUDY]

Thank you for this! Poetry is so honest.

[@rachelolson5488]

I just found this channel, there is light and I am glad 😊

[@bobchristopher7383]

Beautifully read... Cheers Bob

[@ginasantos1219]

So relaxing ☺️ 😴 😊 🤗 😎 ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@brotherbryan2414]

Very enjoyable well done thank you

[@sharongrant8842]

Thank you loved it all!!

[@ocean1233]

Wonderful ❤

[@krenaldasiqeca6744]

Thank you so much, it’s so beautiful!

[@flows6280]

amazing

[@gabyocampo94]

Great collection!

[@dr.sangeetamaheshkavyashala]

Beautiful

[@eliasward9900]

Poetry is awesome

[@Rise2it]

❤

[@chantalblanchard8860]

Wonderful

[@neilgrace9147]

Thank You, All, Love, ..it conquers all, did you know?

[@puru397]

Lovely stuff.

[@TUBULAR1213]

Randall Jarrell, Death of a Ball Turret Gunner read by Gary Sinise -- hauntingly efficient with words

[@CHATTYGRANDPA]

love it

[@portia_kpodo]

me too

[@stevenpagan6200]

Desires Run deep down this portrait Fame desires skill Talent defines the soul Souls desire beauty Beauty is love Conceitment desires the soulless hate damages the soul love cease desire after a while when it's desire s have been fulfilled - Steven Pagan poem

[@poetryjones7946]

“If I Told Him” by Gertrude Stein wins for The Worst, Most Irritating, Talentless Poem Ever Written Ever. 🥇🏆👏🏻😝

[@frankalfar]

So I listened to listen and to hear or 👂 the real thing a thing real.....doth legit , both legit, and so on.. Does the poem have a right to exist ? Yes or 👍

[@diamondhot000]

I was like am I not getting something or this just bad?

[@Cod4Wii]

Thanks!

[@poetry628]

My lovely poem i wrote called, Dexterity Housed in the consolidation that tributes my exquisiteness. My tender observations overcome me and I am deemed to the potentiality that expresses my delicate inclinations to sift into a battering of lavishing fields. Cyclamen and Mimosa flourishes my kindly cares to blossom. Which by a recreation of my smooth and slow ambler eyeing you within your propensity growing contention to tear away the animosity. Succulent honeysuckles conceive the flavor of my embrace. I Caress the blush in your cheeks by the twinkle in my eyes smirk like a rosiness compelling you mutually. Serving your attractiveness in a slightness viable in my heartbeat as it throbs. The importance of how fragile it is, I cease in my influence pressed upon you and abate the lesson relenting with common senses abiding us in our relativity together. How fair the humble excitement to how exclusive the finale within the sweet tart emergence gave to the salutations a production of taste. Now I have you for my periodical composure shifting a sincere eloquence in your favor.

[@marisabenson1222]

''my father who dared so long ago to leave me'.. poignant for those who have children. why? because you have no right to take yourself out of a world you brought a child into. that is unless you have a nietzschean outlook

[@jesussavesus2210]

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. For anyone who truly wants to know God and have eternal life, you can find out very easily and be saved just by seeking him with all your heart. God has told us who he is and how real he is while he walked this earth, which is why the world is divided between his life, BC and AD. And no other person's words or life have been more accurately recorded than Jesus Christ’. Don’t turn down the free gift of eternal life, without trying to seek God first, because judgement is very real. Just confess your sins and ask the Lord to please come into your heart and please save you, and you can find out for yourself. God bless. ❤🙏🕊

[@adamwhite7540]

Treasure!!!!

[@elizabethluevano7961]

Excellence

[@shawnwilson522]

Can anyone tell me what the intro piano music is on track 19 the nightmare song?

[@Voldycssm19]

Yesss jabberwocky is here!!! I'm not surprised tho

[@8777mikey]

Lithgow does not Recite Oliver Wendall Holmes "the Deacons Masterpiece"???

[@hakimgouem8038]

Morgan freeman

[@robhunt-watts8908]

Rabbie Burns, read in fluent Jockanese.

[@Vasilioo7]

46 min in pretty sure it’s Morgan Freeman

[@verkaforever]

Lord Farquaad reads some of these poems.

[@Arthurbarcon]

Oh that low light city witness the loving gold I oh so never given like the jewles you all are to me I solidly and dishonesly say what are and why foas turn against each other like fallen brothers I say seek ye the kingdom and follow the beauty you once called life and death. And take these puddling flowers in hand with guts and show the path ahead not as If your enemy shadow is standing in your way.🔙🔛

[@pliny8308]

I'm sorry to say it, but I didn't think much of the selection or the performers. The only ones who stood out to me as doing their poems justice were Gary Sinise, Eileen Atkins, Hellen Mirren and Morgan Freeman. It's a pity; some of the poems deserved better.

[@anthonyshakespeare382]

Shall I compare thee

[@StephanyAkhile]

😍😍😍

[@andreasara8876]

50:00

[@hhuynh8195]

Wait. Is he from dexter? The trinity killer

[@Praveen.Poonia01]

Plz upload more

[@moazzamali2920]

Who will record my poem?

[@torosalvajebcn]

What about Bukowski?

[@joshuaginoza9446]

"If I Told Him" makes me feel like I'm having a stroke. 0/10 will skip next time.

[@davidgow986]

This is not the best reading. Listen to stein reading it. , you may like it better. Best way to experience it is watch Nederland dance theatre dancing to stein reading this poem, it shows the beautiful muscularity that it resonates. Having said, I get what you say about it

[@aminaiqbal4568]

Inspriration to the younger generation

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[@kathinkaspenner5740]

1:00:50

[@dario27]

No Alan Rickman? T_T

[@ahvidharris3732]

Morgan Freeman reading the only black poems

[@itsmeh9787]

Trinity？？？？

[@littleMsWilmie]

😍

[@kathinkaspenner5740]

1:00:14

[@SimonPaxton_VO]

Thanks for sharing - this is beautiful and inspirational. Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' was voted the nation's favourite poem in a 2013 BBC poll kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXuanqisnNeFi9E

[@luanabettencourt2712]

🎉🎉😅😅😅

[@UnicornPuzzles]

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[@simbajeje]

Song ID at @43:09

[@bolbelikan1665]

This is great. Well done, all.

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[@iknowallthesadsongs2115]

Really bad celebrity kills this

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