The
101 Famous Poems Project
101 of the most-loved poems in the English language – this classic American collection of poems that mirror the political and spiritual evolution of two nations – Great Britain and America – over two centuries has inspired and awed generations of readers.
The 101 Famous Poems Project brings one poem to spoken video every Sunday on YouTube and Vimeo.com/HulaInk.
“‘Tis the heaven of flowers you see there;
All the wild-flowers of the forest,
All the lilies of the prairie,
When on earth they fade and perish,
Blossom in that heaven above us.”
Hiawatha’s Childhood
The Sentamentalists
Out to Old
Aunt Mary’s
by James Whitcomb Riley
“Wasn’t it pleasant, O brother mine, in those old days of the lost sunshine”
The House by the
Side of the Road
by Sam Walter Foss
“But let me live by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.”
Little Boy Blue
by Eugene Field
“The little toy dog is covered with dust, but sturdy and staunch he stands; and the little toy soldier is red with rust, and his musket moulds in his hands.”
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Oh Captain! My Captain!
The Warriors
I Have a
Rendezvous with Death
by Alan Seeger
“It may be he shall take my hand and lead me into his dark land.”
In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae
“We shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields.”
Grass
by Carl Sandburg
Not even the horror of war can withstand time.
So what’s best – a life of glamour, but with all kinds of risks – or a modest life, but with security and peace?
The Mouse Who Wanted the Glamourous Life
The Romantics
The Rhodora
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is its own excuse for being.”
The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
“I wandered lonely as a cloud …”
To a Skylark
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“As, when night is bare, from one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.”
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:—
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields.
Opportunity
The Philosophers
The Happy Warrior
by William Wordsworth
“This is the happy Warrior; this is He whom every Man in arms should wish to be.”
The Builders
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“All are architects of Fate, working in these walls of Time; some with massive deeds and great, some with ornaments of rhyme.”
The Chambered Nautilus
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Let each new temple, nobler than the last, shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, till thou at length art free,”