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We Were So Poor...
Charles Simic
100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks
30 SECONDS
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1
Next to of Course God America
00:59
2
Ballad of the Gypsy
00:52
3
The Road Not Taken
01:03
4
America
00:37
5
Recuerdo
01:26
6
Logan Heights and the World
04:35
7
The Secret of My Endurance
02:16
8
The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg
03:50
9
Love Recognized
01:14
10
Cities of the Red Night
02:58
11
American Haikus (Excerpt)
06:08
12
Lester Leaps In
01:07
13
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
01:37
14
Monet Refuses the Operation
02:28
15
The Colonel
02:43
16
Ode to My Shoes
01:52
17
The Old Flame
01:59
18
The Children's Undercroft
01:58
19
Dear John, Dear Coltrane
02:33
20
Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...
00:38
21
Uh Oh Plutonium
03:13
22
Scars
00:44
23
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
01:09
24
My Sisters, O My Sisters
02:57
25
So and So Reclining On Her Couch
02:10
26
My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
02:26
27
In Our Time
00:21
28
It Is
00:40
29
Birches
03:02
30
In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)
01:49
31
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
01:54
32
Despisals
01:34
33
If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love
03:17
34
I Am Offering You This Poem
01:21
35
We Were So Poor...
00:30
36
Junky Relations
01:59
37
This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
00:19
38
Bird-Witted
02:15
39
Tia Chucha
01:48
40
I Killed a Fly...
00:29
41
Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man
02:03
42
Epilogue
01:25
43
Wonder
01:37
44
Prayer
00:30
45
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
00:49
46
I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...
00:35
47
Elegy for Jane
01:13
48
The Song of the Old Mother
00:51
49
Sonnet for Minimalists
00:43
50
This Is Number 26
01:24
51
What About Dying?...
00:50
52
King of the River
03:20
53
Mulatto
01:37
54
Odysseus to Telemachus
01:40
55
The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
01:29
56
Crossing Over
02:15
57
Skunk Hour
02:25
58
Wild Gratitude
02:55
59
For Poets
00:41
60
Shame
01:49
61
To Juan At the Winter Solstice
02:21
62
Berck-Plage
06:28
63
Translator's Son
00:43
64
To Elsie
02:32
65
Everybody Knows the Story...
00:39
66
Rough
00:53
67
Love Is Not All
01:12
68
Parsley
04:14
69
The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...
00:23
70
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
04:14
71
I Knew a Woman
01:46
72
Winter
01:12
73
Last Gods
02:00
74
Song
01:27
75
The Tent People of Beverly Hills
02:49
76
Leaving Early
02:26
77
Happiness
01:48
78
The Sweat Lodge
01:08
79
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
01:28
80
Tia Sophia
03:10
81
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
03:39
82
A Dance for Militant Diletantes
01:29
83
The Red Wheelbarrow
00:15
84
Underwear
03:32
85
America
08:45
86
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)
04:57
87
Raisin Eyes
01:42
88
The Gift Outright
00:53
89
Thoughts During an Air Raid
01:32
90
One Kiss
01:55
91
The Ballad of Orange and Grape
02:44
92
I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
06:42
93
The Lost Pilot
01:55
94
Clem Snide
04:57
95
The Concrete River
03:33
96
Thanksgrieving
01:28
97
If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)
03:37
98
See It Was Like This When...
00:42
99
The Seasons
01:30
100
Apology
00:36
100 Great Poems - Classic Poets & Beatnik Freaks
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We Were So Poor...
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