Free Audio Great Poetry Books

Download set  of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of Poetry  :

Apollinaire, Guillaume – Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) – Free MP3
Arnold, Matthew – Dover Beach – Free Stream/Download
Ashbery, John – Everyman – Free MP3
Ashbery, John – “Meditations of a Parrot,” “The Painter” and “The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers” (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3
Auden, W.H. – Autumn Song – Free MP3
Auden, W.H. – Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) – Free Stream/Download
Auden, W.H. – Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden – Free Stream/Download
Auden, W.H. – The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) – Free Stream/Download
Blake, William – A Little Boy Lost – Free MP3
Blake, William – Jerusalem – Free MP3 Zip File
Blake, William – Laughing Song – Free MP3
Blake, William – London – Free MP3
Blake, William – Preface to Milton – Free MP3
Blake, William – Piping Down Valleys Wild – Free MP3

Blake, William – Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg – Free Stream/MP3
Blake, William – The Chimney Sweeper – Free MP3
Blake, William – The School Boy – Free MP3
Blake, William – Visions of the Daughters of Albion – Free MP3

Bronte, Emily – Anticipation – Free MP3
Bronte, Emily – Encouragement – Free MP3
Bukowski, Charles – Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You – YouTube Audio
Byron – Childe Harold: Canto III – Free MP3
Byron – Darkness – Free MP3

Byron – Newton – Free MP3
Byron – She Walks in Beauty – Free MP3
Cage, John – Overpopulation and Art – Free Stream
Cohen, Leonard – “For E.J.P” and “You Have the Lovers” (read by Cohen) – Free Stream/Download
Coleridge, Samuel – Kubla Khan – Free MP3
Coleridge, Samuel – Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Free MP3
Coleridge, Samuel – The Dungeon – Free MP3
Cummings, EE – Somewhere I Have Never Travelled – (read by author) – YouTube
DeTroyes, Chretien – Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream
Dickinson, Emily – The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 1 – Free MP3
Dickinson, Emily – The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 – Free MP3
Dickinson, Emily – Because I Could Not Stop for Death – Free MP3
Dickinson, Emily – Hope Is the Thing With Feathers – Free MP3
Donne, John – Death, Be Not Proud – Free Stream/MP3
Donne, John – The Good-morrow – Free Stream/MP3
Donne, John – The Sunne Rising – Free MP3
Eliot, T.S. – Journey of the Magi – YouTube
Eliot, T.S. – The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockListen to reading by Sir Anthony Hopkins – YouTube

Eliot, T.S. – The Waste Land – Free MP3
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – Selections from A Coney Island of the Mind (read by author) – Free MP3 – Free Stream
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – Baseball Canto – Free MP3/Stream
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – Evil – Free MP3/Stream
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence – Wilfred Funk (read by author) – Free MP3/Stream
Frost, Robert – A Line Storm Song – Free MP3
Frost, Robert – My Butterfly – Free MP3
Frost, Robert – October – Free MP3
Frost, Robert – ”The Road Not Taken,” “The Pasture,” “Mowing,” “Birches,” “After Apple-Picking,” and “The Tuft of Flowers” (read by the author)  – Free Stream
Ginsberg, Allen – A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) –Free MP3
Ginsberg, Allen – America (read by Ginsberg) – Free Stream
Ginsberg, Allen – Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) – Free MP3/Stream
Ginsberg, Allen – Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959)  – iTunes
Ginsberg, Allen – Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) – Free Stream – Free iTunes –
Ginsberg, Allen – Jahweh and Allah Battle – Free Stream
Ginsberg, Allen – Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) – Free Stream
Ginsberg , Allen – Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) – Free Stream/Download
Ginsberg, Allen – “What would you do if you lost it?” (read by Ginsberg) – Free Stream/Download
Ginsberg, Allen – “The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night,” “Sweet Levinsky,” and “Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City.” – Free Stream/Download
Hemingway, Ernest – Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) –Free YouTube
Homer, The Odyssey – Free Stream/MP3 Download – Free iTunes
James, Joyce – I Hear an Army Charging Upon the Land – Free MP3
Keats, John – To Autumn – Free MP3
Keats, John – Ode on a Grecian Urn – Free MP3
Keats, John – On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer – Free MP3
Keats, John – When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – If (read by Dennis Hopper) – YouTube
Kipling, Rudyard – If (read by Michael Caine) – YouTube
Kipling, Rudyard – If – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – Conundrum of the Workshops (read by Orson Welles) – YouTube
Kipling, Rudyard – The Gods of the Copybook Headings – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – The Way Through the Woods – Free MP3

Melville, Herman – Ball’s Bluff – Free Stream
Merwin, W.S. – After a Storm (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
Milton, John – On His Blindness – Free MP3
Plath, Sylvia – A Birthday Present (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
Plath, Sylvia – Fever 103 (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
Plath, Sylvia – The Applicant (read by the author) – YouTube
Poe, Edgar Allan – Annabel Lee – Free MP3
Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) –YouTube
Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven – Free MP3
Pope, Alexander – Nature and Art – Free Stream
Pope, Alexander – The Quiet Life – Free Stream
Pound, Ezra – Early Poems – iTunes
Pound, Ezra – Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) – Free MP3
Pound, Ezra – The Seafarer  (read by author) – Free MP3
Rexroth, Kenneth – “One Hundred Poems from the Chinese” and “In Defense of the Earth” (read by the author) – Free Stream
Rich, Adrienne – Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
Rimbaud, Arthur – Illuminations – Free MP3 Zip File
Quintus – The Fall of Troy – Free iTunes
Sexton, Anne – “Her Kind,” “The Ambition Bird,” “Ringing the Bells,” “Music Swims Back to Me,” and “The Truth the Dead Know” (read by the author) – Free Stream
Sexton, Anne – ”With Mercy for the Greedy,” “The Starry Night,” “Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound,” and “Self in 1958,” (read by the author) – Free Stream
Sexton, Anne – Divorce, Thy Name is Woman,” “Gods Making a Living,” “Jesus Cooks,” “Jesus Walking,” and “The Fury of Overshoes” (read by the author) – Free Stream
Sexton, Anne – “Rowing,” “Riding the Elevator Into the Sky,” “The Play,” “The Rowing Endeth,” “Us,” and “The Touch” (read by the author) – Free Stream
Shakespeare, William – Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Free MP3s
Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Adonais – Free MP3
Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Ozymandias of Egypt – Free MP3
Stevens, Wallace – “Credences of Summer” and “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” (read by the author) – Free Stream/Download
Stevens, Wallace – 101 Early Poems – iTunes
Stevens, Wallace – “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain,” and “Vacancy in the Park” (read by the author) – .au format – .gsm format –.ra format
Stevens, Wallace – To an Old Philosopher in Rome (read by the author) – Free MP3
Tennyson, Alfred Lord – Break, Break, Break – Free MP3
Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Charge of the Light Brigade – Free MP3/Stream – Quicktime – RealPlayer
Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Lotos-Eaters – Free MP3
Thomas, Dylan – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
Thomas, Dylan – The Wild West (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
Thomas, Dylan – Under Milk Wood (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
Thoreau, Henry David – Selected Poems and Other Works – Free iTunes
Updike, John – Rainbow (read by author) – Free Stream
Virgil – Aeneid – Free MP3 Zip Download
Whitman, Walt – O Captain! My Captain! – Free MP3
Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
Whitman, Walt – Selected Poems and Prose – Free iTunes
Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself and Other Poems – Free Stream/MP3
Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
Wilbur, Richard – A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
Wilde, Oscar – The Ballad of Reading Gaol – Free MP3/Stream
Williams, Tennessee – Selected Poems – Free Stream/Download

Williams, William Carlos – Collected Poems – Free iTunes
Williams, Willam Carlos – Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 )- Free MP3
Wordsworth, William – The Last of the Flock – Free MP3
Wordsworth, William – Solitary Reaper – Free MP3
Wordsworth, William – Tintern Abbey – Free MP3
Yeats, William Butler – Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven – Free MP3
Yeats, William Butler – Byzantium – Real Media
Yeats, William Butler – Lake Isle of Innesfree – Real Media
Yeats, William Butler – The Cold Heaven – Free Stream/MP3

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