Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls
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80 chapters · 3 h 27 min · English
Read by BettyB, Larry Wilson, Jason in Panama, avocado, Alitheia, Kangaroo and others
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This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean that they are childish, but rather that they capture the imagination of children both in subject matter and the richness of the lyrical language of the poems themselves. They range through the great classical poets from Milton to Poe, in all of their variety and vigor. What child could not be captivated by Blake’s, The Tiger, or enchanted by Lanier’s Song of the Chattahoochee? Here in these verses, we all are children. -summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 Prefatory Note 7 min 2 Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream 3 min 3 Meg Merrilies 2 min 4 Berries 2 min 5 Romance 1 min 6 Hymn of Pan 2 min 7 Written in March 1 min 8 ''When the Hounds of Spring'' 3 min 9 Song 1 min 10 Under the Greenwood Tree 1 min 11 To Violets 1 min 12 On May Morning 1 min 13 The Leprecaun or Fairy Shoemaker 3 min 14 Hunting Song 2 min 15 The Lady of Shalott 8 min 16 Hymn to Diana 2 min 17 The Song of Wandering Aengus 2 min 18 The Shepherd to His Love 2 min 19 Robin Hood and the Butcher 6 min 20 A Sea Song 1 min 21 Epitaph on a Hare 2 min 22 The Pilgrim 2 min 23 Lullaby for Titania 1 min 24 Israfel 3 min 25 Jaffar 3 min 26 A Song of Sherwood 4 min 27 The Destruction of Sennacherib 2 min 28 Ivry 5 min 29 The Tiger 1 min 30 The Terrible Robber Men 1 min 31 Sir Patrick Spens 5 min 32 ''Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind'' 2 min 33 The Pied Piper of Hamelin (A Child's Story) 16 min 34 ''Time, You Old Gipsy Man'' 2 min 35 The Solitary Reaper 2 min 36 My Lost Youth 3 min 37 Battle-Hymn of the Republic 2 min 38 Gathering Song of Donald Dhu 2 min 39 The Minstrel-Boy 1 min 40 Bannockburn (Robert Bruce's Address to His Army) 2 min 41 Fable 1 min 42 Good Hours 1 min 43 Winter 1 min 44 A Chanted Calendar 1 min 45 The Cloud 4 min 46 Bugle Song 2 min 47 The Forsaken Merman 6 min 48 Nurse's Song 1 min 49 To a Mouse 2 min 50 The Fairies 3 min 51 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 3 min 52 Spring 1 min 53 ''I Wandered Lonely'' 2 min 54 The Gay Gos-Hawk 6 min 55 An Old Song of Fairies 2 min 56 Moon Folly (The Song of Conn the Fool) 3 min 57 Star-Talk 2 min 58 Jim Jay 1 min 59 The Ghosts of the Buffaloes 5 min 60 A Christmas Carol 2 min 61 Escape at Bedtime 1 min 62 Song of the Chattahoochee 3 min 63 Sea Fever 1 min 64 ''O Captain! My Captain!'' 2 min 65 The Snow 2 min 66 A Song for My Mother: Her Hands 2 min 67 The Fountain 1 min 68 Nature's Friend 1 min 69 Tree-Toad 2 min 70 An Ancient Christmas Carol 1 min 71 An Old Christmas Carol 1 min 72 King John and the Abbot of Canterbury 6 min 73 The Sands of Dee 2 min 74 Sister Awake! (Old English Song) 1 min 75 The Skeleton in Armor 6 min 76 By Bendemeer's Stream 2 min 77 A Prayer 1 min 78 Young Lochinvar 4 min 79 Off the Ground 3 min 80 Auld Daddy Darkness 2 min
