Download Spoken Poetry from a Childs Introduction to Pooetry from Black Dog Leventhal
LISTEN AS YOU READ & RYHME
A Child’s Introduction to Poetry
Page through the book and listen to spoken excerpts from famous poems
Throughout the pages of A Child’s Introduction to Poetry, readers will find notes directing you to spoken-word tracks you can enjoy while reading the book. These tracks are on this webpage. To listen here, just click the poetic image under the numbered track. To download, click the image, then navigate to the three dots on the player, click there for the prompt to download.
These players work best with browsers such as Safari and Google Chrome. Some older browsers do not play without downloading the file.
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 1-4
Track 1 (p. 8) Introduction to Songs of Innocence and Experience
Track 2 (p. 10) Higglety, Pigglety, Pop
Track 3 (p. 10) The Kite
Track 4 (p. 10) Little Miss Muffet
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 5-8
Track 5 (p. 10) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Track 6 (p. 10) Hush-a-Bye, Baby
Track 7 (p. 11) There Was an Old Woman…
Track 8 (p. 12) Old Mother Hubbard
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 9-12
Track 9 (p. 15) Jabberwocky
Track 10 (p. 19) Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Track 11 (p. 21) Fingers & Toes
Track 12 (p. 21) There Was A Young Lady Named Hannah
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 13-20
Track 13 (p. 21) A Flea and A Fly in a Flue
Track 14 (p. 21) A Sleeper from the Amazon
Track 15 (p. 21) A Man from Nantucket
Track 16 (p. 22) There Was an Old Man from Tobago
Track 17 (p. 23) A Young Lady from Niger
Track 18 (p. 23) A Young Girl Named O’Neill
Track 19 (p. 23) There Was an Old Man of Madrid
Track 20 (p. 23) A Young Man from the City
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 21-28
Track 21 (p. 23) An Old Man With a Beard
Track 22 (p. 24) A Haiku for Every Season
Track 23 (p. 27) Paul Revere’s Ride
Track 24 (p. 29) A Red, Red Rose
Track 25 (p. 31+) The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Track 26 (p. 34) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Track 27 (p. 34) The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Track 28 (p. 37) Sonnet 18 | William Shakespeare
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 29-38
Track 29 (p. 39) Hist Whist
Track 30 (p. 41) Alphabet Poem
Track 31 (p. 41) Easter Wings
Track 32 (p. 41) Riddle Poem 1
Track 33 (p. 41) Riddle Poem 2
Track 34 (p. 42) Epitaph 1
Track 35 (p. 42) Epitaph 2
Track 36 (p. 42) Epitaph 3
Track 37 (p. 42) Epitaph 4
Track 38 (p. 42) Epitaph 5
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 39-44
Track 39 (p. 45) The Iliad (an excerpt)
Track 40 (p. 47) from Macbeth | William Shakespeare
Track 41 (p. 48) Sonnet 30 | William Shakespeare
Track 42 (p. 51) Paradise Lost –an excerpt | John Milton
Track 43 (p. 53) Laughing Song | William Blake
Track 44 (p. 55) I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 45-52
Track 45 (p. 57) Sonnet 43 | Sonnets from the Portuguese
Track 46 (p. 59) The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe
Track 47 (p. 62) I’m Nobody! Who Are You? | Emily Dickinson
Track 48 (p. 63) Because I Could Not Stop for Death | Emily Dickinson
Track 49 (p. 65) O Captain! My Captain! | Walt Whitman
Track 50 (p. 67) Boats Sail on the River | Christina Rossetti
Track 51 (p. 67) Who Has Seen the Wind? | Christina Rossetti
Track 52 (p. 67) What Is Pink? | Christina Rossetti
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 53-58
Track 53 (p. 69) The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost
Track 54 (p. 71) Windy Night | Robert Louis Stevenson
Track 55 (p. 73) IF | Rudyard Kipling
Track 56 (p. 75) The Frog | Hilaire Belloc
Track 57 (p. 75) The Vulture | Hilaire Belloc
Track 58 (p. 77) Buffalo Dusk | Carl Sandburg
LISTEN AS YOU READ – TRACKS 59-65
Track 59 (p. 78) Theme in Yellow | Carl Sandburg
Track 60 (p. 80) Night Mail | W.H. Auden
Track 61 (p. 83) In Time of Silver Rain | Langston Hughes
Track 62 (p. 85) Fortune | Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Track 63 (p. 87) Digging | Seamus Heaney
Track 64 (p. 89) The Street | Octavio Paz
Track 65 (p. 91) Life Doesn’t Frighten Me | Maya Angelou
