Seven O’clock Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson

Carl Larsson, Christmas Morning, 1894

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Running time:  3 hours 23 minutes

Lass Dir Was 10

01  The First Night  Three Happy Children 00:04:16

02  The Second Night  The Playmates of the Three Happy Children 00:05:47

03  The Third Night  Noisy Folks 00:05:54

Lass Dir Was 20

04 The Fourth Night  Just Before Supper 00:06:28

05 The Fifth Night  The Toy Man 00:06:28

06  The Sixth Night  The Willow Whistle 00:04:40

Lass Dir Was 25

07  The Seventh Night  Mr. Scarecrow 00:07:35

08  The Eighth Night  The Prettiest Fairy Story in the World 00:08:49

09  The Ninth Night Another True Fairy Story 00:08:26

10  The Tenth Night  The Happy Ending of the Oriole’s Story 00:08:24

Baltimore Orioles and Nest from The New Student's Reference work

11  The Eleventh Night  Mother Hen and Robber Hawk 00:08:58

12  The Twelfth Night  About Ducky the Stepchild and the Little Ship 00:16:29

13 The Thirteenth Night The Tall Enemy 00:10:41

14 The Fourteenth Night  The Sleigh and the Tiny Reindeer 00:08:10

15  The Fifteenth Night  Jack Frost and the Man-in-the-Moon 00:15:43

16 The Sixteenth Night  Sloshin‘ 00:13:08

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17 The Seventeenth Night  The Circus Comes to Town 00:12:47

18  The Eighteenth Night The Jolly Clown 00:17:49

19  The Nineteenth Night  Wienerwurst’s Brave Battle 00:11:52

20  The Twentieth Night  The Lions of the North Wind 00:20:07

William Butler Yeats, selected poetry

William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet and dramatist

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Lake Isle of Innisfree e-text

The Fisherman

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Easter 1916

Easter, 1916 e-text

Easter Lily, published under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license by author UpstateNYer

Where My Books Go

Where My Books Go e-text

Aedh Wishes for the Coths of Heaven

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven e-text

Young Girl, Spielendes Maedchen, by Hubert Golz


Prayer for my Daughter

A Prayer for My Daughter e-text

Blood and the Moon

Blood and the Moon e-text

Oil and Blood

Oil and Blood e-text

Vetheuil in Winter by Claude Monet

The Wheel

The Wheel e-text

The Magi

The Magi e-text

The Cradle by Berthe Morisot

A Cradle Song

A Cradle Song

THE angels are stooping
Above your bed;
They weary of trooping
With the whimpering dead.
God’s laughing in Heaven
To see you so good;
The Sailing Seven
Are gay with His mood.
I sigh that kiss you,
For I must own
That I shall miss you
When you have grown.

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

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01  My Father Meets the Cat 00:03:49

02  My Father Runs Away 00:05:48

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03 My Father Finds the Island 00:06:02

04 My Father Finds the River 00:04:53

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05  My Father Meets some Tigers 00:05:37

06  My Father Meets A Rhinocerus 00:06:17

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07  My Father Meets A Lion 00:04:08

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08 My Father Meets A Gorilla 00:05:13

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09  My Father Makes A Bridge 00:04:38

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10  My Father Finds the Dragon 00:04:55

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English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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Running time: 5 hours, 36 minutes.

Fairy Land by Edward Reginald Frampton (1872-1923)

0. Preface

1. Tom Tit Tot

2. The Three Sillies

3. The Rose-Tree

The Old Rose Tree, photograph by Jean-Pol Grandmont, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license

4. The Old Woman and her Pig

5. How Jack went to Seek his Fortune

6. Mr. Vinegar

7. Nix Nought Nothing

Full title of this painting: Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, with Butterflies, Flowers and Jewels Attending, Thus your Fairy is Made of most Beautiful Things by Sophie Anderson (1823-1903)

8. Jack Hannaford

9. Binnorie

10. Mouse and Mouser

11. Cap O’Rushes

12. Teeny-Tiny

13. Jack and the Beanstalk

Three Little Pigs The Third Pig Builds a House

14. The Story of the Three Little Pigs

15. The Master and his Pupil

16. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse

17. Jack and His Golden Snuff-box

18. The Story of the Three Bears

Three Bears

19. Jack the Giant-Killer

20. Henny Penny

21. Childe Rowland

22. Molly Whuppie

23. The Red Ettin

24. The Golden Arm

25. The History of Tom Thumb

Foxes by Bruno Liljefors, 1885

26. Mr. Fox

27. Lazy Jack

28. Johnny-cake

29. Earl Mar’s Daughter

30. Mr. Miacca

31. Whittington and his Cat

32. The Strange Visitor

33. The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh

34. The Cat and the Mouse

35. The Fish and the Ring

36. The Magpie’s Nest

37. Kate Crackernuts

38. The Cauld Lad of Hilton

Donkey Frieze (1911) by Franz Marc

39. The Ass, the Table and the Stick

40. Fairy Ointment

41. The Well of the World’s End

42. Master of All Masters
43. The Three Heads of the Well

When the King Came: Stories from the Four Gospels by George Hodges

Marriage of the Virgin Mary by Raphael

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King Flight into Egypt by Adam Elsheimer, 1578-1610

Preface and The Year One

The Herald of the King

Shepherds and Singing Angels

A Shepherd, detail from Nativity scene painted on paper sheets glued on wood panels, artwork by Francesco Londonio (1723-1783), photo published/copyrighted by Giovanni Dall'Orto

The King’s Name

The King Is Taken to the Temple

The Visit of the Wise Men

The Carpenter’s House

At the Age of Twelve

The Herald Speaks

The Jordan River as seen from the baptism complex, photo released to public domain by its author Bcrawford92

Heaven and the River

The Three Temptations

The Twelve Friends


The King Goes to a Wedding


Wedding at Cana by Mattia Preti, c. 1655

The King Among His Neighbors

A Day of the King’s Life

The Broken Roof

The Pool of the Angel

The King Stops a Funeral

The Stilling of a Storm

The Wild Man of Gergesa

The Minister’s Little Daughter

The Sermon on the Mount


The Sermon of the Seven Stories

The Herald’s Head

Feeding the multitude by William Hole rom The Life of Jesus of Nazareth. Eighty Pictures

Twelve Baskets of Pieces

Why the King Was Hated

In the Land of Tyre and Sidon

What a Blind Man Saw

A Rock for a Corner-Stone

The King in His Beauty

The Lad at the Foot of the Hill

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The Good Samaritan

The Prodigal Son

The Return of the Prodigal Son by Rembrandt

The Rich Man and the Beggar

At the Grave of Lazarus

On the Way to Jerusalem

In the Streets of Jericho


Palms and Psalms

King, Palm frond detail, image released to public domain by its author Kahuroa

Three Days of the Holy Week

Pharisees and Sadducees and Wedding Guests

The Last Supper

Judas receiving payment for his Betrayal, by Giotto di Bondone (1267 -1337)

In the Garden of Gethsemane

Christ Before Caiaphas

Christ Before Pilate

Crucified, Dead, and Buried

Disciples visit the tomb by William Hole, from The Life of Jesus of Nazareth. Eighty pictures.

The Empty Tomb

The King Walks with Two Disciples

The Vision of the Seven Fisherman

The King Returns to Heaven

Japanese Fairy Tales by Yei Theodora Ozaki

Cranes

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Suruga Bay, Azaleas by Lilla Cabot Perry

Preface

My Lord Bag of Rice

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

The Story of Urashima Taro, The Fisher Lad

Carp banners in Kyoto by Adolfo Farsari

The Farmer and the Badger

The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage

The Adventures of Kintaro, The Golden Boy

The Story of Princess Hase

Noh Dance Prelude

The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die

The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moon-Child

The Mirror of Maysuyama

The Goblin of Adachigahara

The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar

The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher

Japanese fairy tales Birds and Flowers, two six panel screens by Kano Koi

The Story of the Old Man who made Withered Trees to Flower

The Jelly Fish and the Monkey

Japanese Fairy Tales, The Crab and the Monkey

The Quarrel of the Monkey and the Crab

The White Hare and the Crocodiles


The Story of Prince Yamato Take

Plum blossoms, Japanese fan by Ogata Korin

Mornotaro, or The Story of the Son of a Peach

The Ogre of Rashornon

How an Old Man Lost His Wen

The Stones of Five Colors and The Empress Jokwa

Abraham Lincoln Radio Theater

Abe Lincoln 1846

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Henry Fonda stars in Young Mr. Lincoln: Great Scenes from Great Plays

Abe Lincoln the Prairie Years

Abraham Lincoln the War Years

Abe Lincoln Birthplace

Abraham Lincoln Cavalcade of America 1860

Abraham Lincoln Election Song 1860 Lincoln and Liberty

Abraham Lincoln Election Song 1864 Rally ’round the Cause

Civil War Camp of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Mister President Abe Lincoln in the Telegraph Office

You Are There: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

You Are There! The Capture of John Wilkes Booth

Abraham Lincoln standing portrait 1863

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Raggedy Ann Stories by Johnny Gruelle

Raggedy Ann and the Kite

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Raggedy Ann with books

Preface and Dedication

Introduction

Raggedy Ann Learns a Lesson

Raggedy Ann and the Kite

Raggedy Ann and the Washing

Raggedy Ann and the Kite

Raggedy Ann Rescues Fido

Raggedy Ann Rescues Fido

Raggedy Ann and the Painter

Raggedy Ann and the Painter

Raggedy Ann's Trip on the River

Raggedy Ann’s Trip on the River

Raggedy Ann and the Strange Dolls

Raggedy Ann and the Strange Dolls

Raggedy Ann and the Kitten

Raggedy Ann and the Kittens

Raggedy Ann and the Fairies’ Gift

Raggedy Ann and the Chickens

Raggedy Ann and the Chickens

Raggedy Ann and the Mouse

Raggedy Ann’s New Sisters

Raggedy Ann and the New Sisters

Norton Anthology of Poetry links

Ripe Hachiya persimmons on a tree in December, licensed under GNU Free Documentation license by author Downtowngal

The Norton Anthology of Poetry has provided a web companion with several poems read aloud.  Here is their homepage where you can find several additional resources.  Below are links to the poems on their site.  Click on the links to go to their site, and then click on the speaker beside the text of each poem to hear it read aloud.  You’ll need QuickTime for the audio player to work.

Image of Chaucer as a pilgrim from Ellesmere Manuscript in Huntington Library in San Marino California.  This manuscript is an early publishing of Canterbury Tales.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400) The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale

Sir Patrick Spens Early Modern Ballads

Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 1542) They Flee from Me

Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603) When I Was Fair and Young

Edmund Spenser (1552 – 1599) Sonnet 75

Shepherd by Strambu Ipolit, 1871-1934

Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593) The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Sonnet 146

John Donne (1572 – 1631) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) To My Dear and Loving Husband

Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743 – 1825) The Rights of Woman

Old Chelsea Bridge, London by Pissarro, 1871

William Blake (1757 – 1827) London

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) Kubla Khan

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) Ulysses

Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) Song of Myself

Emily Dickinson, black and white photograph

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) #712

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) Easter 1916

Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) Sunday Morning

William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963) This Is Just to Say

Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) Poetry

Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918) Dulce Et Decorum Est

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Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) The Weary Blues

W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973) In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) Fern Hill

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) We Real Cool

Denise Levertov (1923 – 1997) Tenebrae

Adrienne Rich (b. 1929) Diving into the Wreck

Derek Walcott (b. 1930) A Far Cry from Africa

1593 map Northern Hemisphere, Gerard de Jode

Eavan Boland (b. 1944) That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

Rita Dove (b. 1952) Parsley

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) Persimmons