Heroes, Horses, and Harvest Moons A Cornucopia of Best-Loved Poems, Vol. 1

Poems can sweep us away to fantasy lands or long-ago times, or show us everyday people and creatures in a whole new light. In this new recording, master storyteller Jim Weiss introduces children to the magic of poetry, performing 40 classic poems, and providing brief introductions to the poets, including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, and many more.

Track Listing:Preface Nursery Rhymes and Poems from Mother Goose:Little Jack Horner Wee Willie Winkie There Was a Crooked Man Three Men in a Tub Old King Cole Hey Diddle Diddle Little Miss Muffet Peter Piper One Misty, Moisty MorningPoems About Nature: About Robert FrostThe Pasture (Frost) About Robert Louis StevensonWindy Nights (Stevenson) Who Has Seen the Wind? (Rossetti) About Christina RossettiClouds (Rossetti) About Edna St. Vincent MillayAfternoon on a Hill (Millay) About William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats) About Carl Sandburg Theme in Yellow (Sandburg)Fog (Sandburg) About Emily Dickinson To Make a Prairie (Dickinson) I Send Two Sunsets (Dickinson) About E.E. Cummings In Just (Cummings) Little Tree (Cummings) Wild Ride #1: About Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPaul Revere's Ride (Longfellow) All-American Poems: About Walt WhitmanI Hear America Singing (Whitman) About Ernest Thayer Casey at the Bat (Thayer) Unusual Companions: The Bean-Stalk (Millay) About John Kendrick Bangs The Little Elf (Bangs) The Song of the Wandering Aengus (Yeats)Poems that Take Flight: The Eagle (Tennyson) About Rachel Field Something Told the Wild Geese (Field) The Swing (Stevenson) Inspiration: About Edgar A. Guest It Couldn't be Done (Guest) Wild Ride #2: About Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson) Sensible Nonsense: About A.A. MilneJonathan Jo (Milne) The King's Breakfast (Milne) About Vachel Lindsay The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky (Lindsay) About Edward Lear The Pobble Who Has No Toes (Lear) Bedtime and Dreamtime: Bed in Summer (Stevenson) About Thomas HoodIn The Summer When I Go to Bed (Hood) About Eugene Field Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Field) About Leigh HuntAbou Ben Adhem (Hunt) ConclusionRun Time: Approximately 70 minutes