Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls
Various and Walter de la Mare
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers





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
(3 hr 27 min)
Kapitel
Prefatory Note | 7:11 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream | 3:20 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Meg Merrilies | 1:45 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
Berries | 2:22 | Gelesen von avocado |
Romance | 1:25 | Gelesen von Alitheia |
Hymn of Pan | 2:27 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
Written in March | 1:05 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
''When the Hounds of Spring'' | 2:56 | Gelesen von Carol |
Song | 0:40 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
Under the Greenwood Tree | 1:01 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
To Violets | 0:51 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
On May Morning | 1:07 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
The Leprecaun or Fairy Shoemaker | 2:57 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Hunting Song | 1:58 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
The Lady of Shalott | 7:45 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Hymn to Diana | 1:31 | Gelesen von Jason in Panama |
The Song of Wandering Aengus | 1:52 | Gelesen von Carol |
The Shepherd to His Love | 1:43 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Robin Hood and the Butcher | 5:31 | Gelesen von Kalynda |
A Sea Song | 1:22 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Epitaph on a Hare | 2:18 | Gelesen von Felicity12 |
The Pilgrim | 1:30 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
Lullaby for Titania | 1:26 | Gelesen von Twinkle |
Israfel | 2:31 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Jaffar | 2:46 | Gelesen von Nemo |
A Song of Sherwood | 3:43 | Gelesen von BettyB |
The Destruction of Sennacherib | 2:00 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Ivry | 4:56 | Gelesen von BettyB |
The Tiger | 1:27 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
The Terrible Robber Men | 1:14 | Gelesen von Carol |
Sir Patrick Spens | 4:32 | Gelesen von Sonia |
''Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind'' | 1:34 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (A Child's Story) | 15:41 | Gelesen von Ian King |
''Time, You Old Gipsy Man'' | 1:37 | Gelesen von Carol |
The Solitary Reaper | 1:55 | Gelesen von Ian King |
My Lost Youth | 3:26 | Gelesen von Ian King |
Battle-Hymn of the Republic | 2:17 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
Gathering Song of Donald Dhu | 1:48 | Gelesen von Sonia |
The Minstrel-Boy | 1:20 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
Bannockburn (Robert Bruce's Address to His Army) | 1:36 | Gelesen von Sonia |
Fable | 1:05 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Good Hours | 1:25 | Gelesen von Carol |
Winter | 1:25 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
A Chanted Calendar | 1:29 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
The Cloud | 4:11 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
Bugle Song | 1:32 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
The Forsaken Merman | 5:58 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
Nurse's Song | 1:00 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
To a Mouse | 2:25 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
The Fairies | 2:33 | Gelesen von Efia Tora |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci | 3:20 | Gelesen von Carol |
Spring | 1:27 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
''I Wandered Lonely'' | 1:43 | Gelesen von Kangaroo |
The Gay Gos-Hawk | 6:01 | Gelesen von BettyB |
An Old Song of Fairies | 2:15 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Moon Folly (The Song of Conn the Fool) | 2:45 | Gelesen von Carol |
Star-Talk | 1:59 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Jim Jay | 1:10 | Gelesen von BettyB |
The Ghosts of the Buffaloes | 5:11 | Gelesen von BettyB |
A Christmas Carol | 1:43 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Escape at Bedtime | 1:09 | Gelesen von Evan Smith |
Song of the Chattahoochee | 3:22 | Gelesen von Carol |
Sea Fever | 1:23 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
''O Captain! My Captain!'' | 2:09 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
The Snow | 1:52 | Gelesen von thestorygirl |
A Song for My Mother: Her Hands | 2:13 | Gelesen von Carol |
The Fountain | 1:20 | Gelesen von Efia Tora |
Nature's Friend | 1:17 | Gelesen von Efia Tora |
Tree-Toad | 1:34 | Gelesen von BettyB |
An Ancient Christmas Carol | 1:12 | Gelesen von Carol |
An Old Christmas Carol | 1:23 | Gelesen von BettyB |
King John and the Abbot of Canterbury | 6:11 | Gelesen von BettyB |
The Sands of Dee | 1:48 | Gelesen von Carol |
Sister Awake! (Old English Song) | 0:58 | Gelesen von Kalynda |
The Skeleton in Armor | 6:16 | Gelesen von Sonia |
By Bendemeer's Stream | 1:43 | Gelesen von Carol |
A Prayer | 1:17 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
Young Lochinvar | 3:42 | Gelesen von Nemo |
Off the Ground | 3:18 | Gelesen von BettyB |
Auld Daddy Darkness | 1:52 | Gelesen von Sonia |
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good reading
Thank you, readers. I especially like Carol/Rosehip's reading.