[oldtech]

This sounds interesting. Is it more on the lighter side....or the serious side?

[rlmorel]

Don’t know yet-I am going to download it and listen. I suspect it is more on the patriotic side, since it is poetry, even though I know poetry can be quite dark too...

[rlmorel]

Here are the poems in that recording...this looks like a great collection! (I am absolutely going to go right to the "Warren's Address", as that is an area I have interest in...:)

• Boston by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Battle of Lexington by Sidney Lanier
• Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Ticonderoga by V. B. Wilson
• Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw It from the Belfry by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Warren's Address by John Pierpoint
• The Old Continentals by Guy Humphrey McMaster
• Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch
• The Little Black-Eyed Rebel by Will Carleton
• Molly Maguire at Monmouth by William Collins
• Song of Marion's Men by William Cullen Bryant
• To the memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau
• George Washington by James Russell Lowell
• Perry's Victory on Lake Erie by James Gates Percival
• The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
• The Battle of New Orleans by Thomas Dunn English
• The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake
• Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman
• The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O'Hara
• How Old Brown took Harper's Ferry by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• Apocalypse by Richard Realf
• The Picket Guard by Ethel Lynn Beers
• The Washers of the Shroud by James Russell Lowell
• Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
• At Port Royal, by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Ready by Phoebe Gary
• "How are you, Sanitary?" by Bret Harte
• Song of the Soldiers, by Charles G. Halpine
• Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell
• The Cumberland by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Kearny at Seven Pines by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• Dirge for a Soldier by George H. Boker
• Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier
• Music in Camp by John R. Thompson
• Keenan's Charge by George Parsons Lathrop
• The Black Regiment by George H. Boker
• John Burns of Gettysburg by Bret Harte
• Twilight on Sumter by Richard Henry Stoddard
• The Bay-Fight by Henry Howard Brownell
• Sherman's March to the Sea by Samuel H. M. Byers
• O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
• The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch
• At the Farragut Statue by Robert Bridges
• Grant by H. C. Bunner
• The Burial of Sherman by Richard Watson Gilder
• The men behind the guns by John Jerome Rooney
• The regular army man by Joseph C. Lincoln
• Ad Finem Fideles by Guy Wetmore Carryl
• A Toast to our Native Land by Robert Bridges
• Fifty Years by James Weldon Johnson
• The American Volunteers by Marie Van Vorst
• I have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
• The Choice by Rudyard Kipling
• Annapolis by Waldron Kinsolving Post
• To peace, with victory by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
• You and you by Edith Wharton
• With the tide by Edith Wharton
• America's welcome home by Henry van Dyke
• The Unknown Soldier by Angela Morgan