Poetry and Music by Other Writers, Including My Commentary
To the best of my knowledge, I have either gained permission to use these poems or they are in the public domain. They all include a certain amount of commentary. Some are used here as tributes to friends or family who have either died or celebrated an aimportant moment in their lives. Some poems have also been used as part of a meditation that I have written. Those poems that involve music have midi files playing in the background.
Poems with My Commentary
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas
A Souvenir
The Songs My Mother Sang to Me
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Church-Musick - George Herbert
Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard
The Pulley - George Herbert
Dandelion - Hilda Conkling
The Widow Bird - Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Rare Day, Indeed - James Russell Lowell
How Do I Love Thee? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - to my wife, Mary
The End of the World - Archibald MacLeish
Oh Yet We Trust - Alfred Lord Tennyson - Tribute to Bud Coulson
The Quiet Life - Alexander Pope
That Nantucket Limerick and What Followed
Just to be Glad - James Whitcomb Riley
Betty and the Bear
A Poem for Our Times; Drums of War - Jim Martin
A Poem for the Past and for the Future; Upon Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth
Ode to the West Wind - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Little Lamb, Who Made Thee? - William Blake
The Shepherd - William Blake
Every One Sang - Siegfried Sassoon
The Last Invocation - Walt Whitman - A Tribute to Al Myers
He Comes to Us - Albert Schweitzer
Forbearance - Ralph Waldo Emerson - A Tribute to Martin Luther King
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer - Walt Whitman
Heaven - George Herbert
Evening - Lord Byron - A Tribute to Frank Schwab
Fable, a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dedication to Joshua - The Road Not Taken
A Thing of Beauty - John Keats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree - William Butler Yeats
Riddle of the World Alexander Pope
Little girl, who made thee? - Sharon Ware
All the Flowers of the Spring - John Webster
To Sleep - William Wordsworth
Some Thoughts on "Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree"
Canticle of the Sun
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal - Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Light of Other Days - Thomas Moore
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes - Francis William Bourdillon
Songs and Hymns with My Commentary
Amazing Grace
Aura Lea
The Brook - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Come, Come Ye Saints
Crossing the Bar - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fields of Athenry
In the Bleak Midwinter
Rock of Ages
Under His Wings - A Shelter From the Storm - William Cushing
What Wondrous Love is This