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Each week Dr. J shares a poem from one of the nineteenth-century American Fireside Poets, reading it aloud and commenting on it to enhance the listener’s enjoyment of the poem.
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Priscilla Mullins and John Alden wed, symbolizing the continuity of life in a true pastoral image.
The young Endymion sleeps Endymion’s sleep . . .
The essence of each poet: Chaucer and Shakespearre
A young man learns of the death of his beloved when he comes upon a strange ceremony.
The poet recounts an apocryphal story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and then asks "whose was theright and the wrong?"
The poet asks our sympathy for a woman the world considers unworthy of sympathy.
The poet fancies himself related to a willow tree and laments the negative influence of Puritanism on New England and American culture
A writer finishing a book ike a family going to bed.
A "beatiful youth" is killled by a sharpshooter's bullet in the Civil War. The bullet continues on to his hometown, where it takes another life.
1Longfellow remembers the burial of his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne
What should we cheer?
We shouldn't forget the modest flowers of April when the showier flowers of May come into bloom.
The poet meditates in the darkness upon time and eternity.
On the 19th of April, 1775, Pau Revere rides to alert his countrymen that British troops are moving from Boston to seize Patriot munitions at Concord, Massachussetts.
The poet is grateful that he s able to dwell in modes of being other than his own.
A poet contemplates the gulf between medieval Christianity and the modern world.
An old buccaneer dreams of going to sea again.
the poet anticipaes atime of world peace.
To have any hope of happiness with a man, a woman from when she is a child must develop both a strong sense of self-confidence and a strong sense of self-worth.
A faather is late coming home . . .
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