Tree with a Bird in it
Margaret Widdemer
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Length 1 h 21 min
Chapters 42
First published 1922
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a poem based on the aforementioned topic. Summary by MLeigh.
Chapters
1
Forward Read by mleigh 2:06
2
The Bird with the Woe by Edwin Markham Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt 0:51
3
The Unity of Oneness by Witter Bynner Read by mleigh 1:17
4
Oiseaurie by Amy Lowell Read by Siu 0:50
5
Imri Swazey by Edgar Lee Masters Read by Phil Schempf 1:09
6
Rambuncto by Edwin Arlington Robinson Read by Phil Schempf 1:53
7
The Bird Misunderstood by Robert Frost Read by mleigh 1:22
8
Chicago Memories by Carl Sandburg Read by Ryan Godley 2:26
9
Frost and Sandburg Tonight by Edith M. Thomas Read by Victoria 1:01
10
The Unquiet Singer by Charles Hanson Towne Read by Tom Merritt 2:00
11
At Autumn by Sara Teasdale Read by Stefan Von Blon 0:46
12
Rainuv by Ezra Pound Read by Tom Merritt 3:40
13
The Sighing Tree by Margaret Widdemer Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt 0:54
14
Ballade of Spring Chickens by Richard Le Gallienne Read by Ryan Godley 2:15
15
Oh! Bird! by Angela Morgan Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt 1:08
16
The Charnel Bird by Conrad Aiken Read by Liam Knowles 1:27
17
A Young Girl to a Young Bird by Mary Carolyn Davies Read by Liam Knowles 0:53
18
The Rune of the Nude by Marguerite Wilkinson Read by Liam Knowles 1:22
19
Admiration by Aline Kilmer Read by Isabella Paul 1:27
20
The Grackle of Grog by William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet Read by benjihess 1:44
21
Preenings by Lola Ridge Read by Yuhan L Jiang 1:41
22
Tea o' Herbs by Edna St. Vincent Millay Read by Nichole James 1:41
23
The Weaver Bird by John V. A. Weaver Read by altrin 1:41
24
Sonnet: Trees Are Not Ships by David Morton Read by AnthonyT 1:06
25
The Grackle Is the Loon by Elinor Wylie Read by AnthonyT 0:45
26
A Landscape Gets Personal by Leonora Speyer Read by AnthonyT 0:45
27
The Symposium Leading Nowhere by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson Read by Nichole James 1:39
28
The Fowl of a Thousand Flights by Ridgely Torrence Read by Lan Kao 1:42
29
The Roiling of Henry by Henry van Dyke Read by Lan Kao 1:54
30
Pantings by Cale Young Rice Read by Tom Merritt 2:36
31
The Wild by Bliss Carman Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt 1:15
32
They See the Birdie by Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling Read by ABVoice 1:30
33
A Ballad of the Bird Dance of Pierrette by Theodosia Garrison Read by Tom Merritt 2:53
34
Pierrette Remembers an Engagement by William Griffith Read by Tom Merritt 1:17
35
Ain't Nature Wonderful! by Edgar Guest Read by Ryan Godley 1:02
36
The Meeting of the Columns by Don Marquis Read by Tom Merritt 3:06
37
The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird by Christopher Morley Read by mleigh 3:21
38
To a Grackle by Franklin Pierce Adams Read by mleigh 1:26
39
Carlo the Gardener by Thomas Augustin Daly Read by mleigh 1:27
40
The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo by Vachel Lindsay Read by Tom Merritt 3:12
41
Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque by Percy Mackaye, Josephine Preston Peabody, and Isabel Fiske Conant Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt 11:10
42
A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review by Arthur Guiterman Read by Stefan Von Blon 2:11
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