Introduction The Power of Poetry By Dana Gioia “Jenny Kiss’d Me” By Leigh Hunt Read by Kay Ryan “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” By William Butler Yeats Read by Anthony Hopkins “The Good-Morrow” By John Donne Read by David Mason “Fire and Ice” By Robert Frost Read by N. Scott Momaday “We Wear the Mask” By Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Rita Dove “anyone lived in a pretty how town” By e.e. cummings Read by David Mason “Pied Beauty” By Gerard Manley Hopkins Read by Kay Ryan Conveying emotion, with excerpts from Hamlet “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” By Dylan Thomas Read by Alfred Molina “The World Is Too Much with Us” By William Wordsworth Read by Angela Lansbury “Fern Hill” By Dylan Thomas Read by Anthony Hopkins Punching words “Ozymandias” By Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by N. Scott Momaday Kay Ryan remembers her grandmother N. Scott Momaday remembers his parents David Mason on knowing poems by heart “Hope is the thing with feathers” By Emily Dickinson Read by David Henry Hwang “When You Are Old” By William Butler Yeats Read by Diane Thiel “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Read by Dana Gioia “Sonnet 55” By William Shakespeare Read by James Earl Jones “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” By John Keats Read by Rita Dove “To My Dear and Loving Husband” By Anne Bradstreet Read by Alyssa Milano “I think I should have loved you presently” By Edna St. Vincent Millay Read by Alyssa Milano “Dream Deferred (Harlem)” By Langston Hughes Read by Khandi Alexander “I Hear America Singing” By Walt Whitman Read by Richard Rodriguez From “Annabel Lee” By Edgar Allan Poe Read by Khandi Alexander “The Unknown Citizen” By W.H. Auden Read by Alfred Molina “Miniver Cheevy” By Edwin Arlington Robinson Read by David Mason “My Last Duchess” By Robert Browning Read by Alfred Molina “Dover Beach” By Matthew Arnold Read by Angela Lansbury “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” By Wallace Stevens Read by N. Scott Momaday “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” By Emily Dickinson Read by Kay Ryan “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By T.S. Eliot Read by Anthony Hopkins Credits
