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

Classic children’s poems about nature, bravery, love, and the wild journeys of the imagination, all performed unabridged by Jim Weiss. 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. Listen to these varied poems on their own, or as you read along with the accompanying Companion Reader.

Track List

1. Preface
2. Nursery Rhymes and Poems from Mother Goose
3. The Pasture
4. Windy Nights
5. Who Has Seen the Wind
6. Clouds
7. Afternoon on a Hill
8. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
9. Theme in Yellow
10. Fog
11. To Make a Prairie
12. I Send Two Sunsets
13. In Just
14. Little Tree
15. Paul Revere’s Ride
16. I Hear American Singing
17. Casey at the Bat
18. The Bean-Stalk
19. The Little Elf
20. Song of the Wandering Aengus
21. The Eagle
22. Something Told the Wild Geese
23. The Swing
24. It Couldn’t Be Done
25. The Charge of the Light Brigade
26. Jonathan Jo
27. The King’s Breakfast
28. The Moon’s The North Wind’s Cooky
29. The Pobble Who Has No Toes
30. Bed in Summer
31. In the Summer When I Go to Bed
32. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
33. Abou Ben Adhem

<