CD contents: Introduction
Something told the wild geese
If once you have slept on an island
An attempt at unrhymed verse
Turkey shot out of the oven
From the CD - Unabridged.
CD 1. All things bright and beautiful (hymn) / lyrics by Cecil Frances Alexander --
Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins --
Spring / Julie Andrews --
Daffodils / William Wordsworth --
Wildflowers / Julie Andrews --
Loveliest of trees / A.E. Housman --
To an oak tree / E.C. Wells --
Child's song in spring / Edith Nesbit --
Merry autumn days / Charles Dickens --
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Lyman Field --
The orange / Wendy Cope --
Sonnet 29 / William Shakespeare --
The optimist / anonymous --
Certainty / Emily Dickinson --
Be like the bird / Victor Hugo --
Faith / Emma Walton Hamilton --
Hold fast your dreams / Louise Driscoll --
Growing up / Julie Andrews --
On my way / lyrics, Emma Walton Hamilton, Lisa Michaelis, Billy Scholsser ; music, Billy Scholsser, Lisa Michaelis --
The secrets of our garden / Rupert Sargent Holland, adapted by James W. King --
My shadow / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Rice pudding / A.A. Milne --
Our lady of perpetual demand / Emma Walton Hamilton --
Observation ; Bedtime blessing / Julie Andrews --
Night (abridged) / William Blake --
Good night prayer / Henry Johnstone --
My bed is a boat / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (Dutch lullaby) / Eugene Field --
Bed mate / Constance Andrea Keremes --
The wren / A.S., Liza Lehmann --
Duck's ditty (from A wind in the willows) / Kenneth Grahame --
Adelie penguin / Tony Walton --
The cow / Robert Louis Stevenson --
The runaway / Robert Frost --
A pit pony's memory of the strike / Arthur Morris (Andrews' grandfather) --
My new rabbit / Elizabeth Gould --
The mountain and the squirrel / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The grasshopper and the elephant / anonymous --
The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear.
CD 2. Sea-fever / John Masefield --
I started early / Emily Dickinson --
Noticing / Julie Andrews --
Cargoes / John Masefield --
If once you have slept on an island / Rachel Lyman Field --
Boats sail on the rivers ; What are heavy? / Christina Georgina Rossetti --
The little pebble's song / Sabine Sicaud, translated by Norman R. Shapiro --
The brook / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Laughing song / William Blake --
Have you ever seen? / anonymous --
A giraffe poked his head in my window / Julie Andrews --
Bartholomew blue / Emma Walton Hamilton --
Missing / Julie Andrews --
The king's breakfast / A.A. Milne --
My auntie / Colin West --
Two limericks / Tony Walton --
An attempt at unrhymed verse / Wendy Cope --
The turkey shot out of the oven / Jack Prelutsky --
Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Wind pictures / Mary O'Neill --
A book / Emily Dickinson --
Oh, for a book / Christopher North --
Keep a poem in your pocket / Beatrice Schenk de Regniers --
What's a poem? / Charles Ghigna --
The reading mother (abridged) / Strickland Gillilan --
When mother reads aloud / anonymous --
Picture books in winter / Robert Louis Stevenson --
I'm the leader of the band / anonymous --
The floral dance / Katie Moss --
At the theater / Rachel Lyman field --
The wonderful world / William Brighty Rands --
The toys talk of the world / Katharine Pyle --
A nation's strength (abridged) / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
New York City / Julie Andrews --
Landscape / Eve Merriam --
Prayer for Earth / Myra Cohn Livingston --
High flight / John Gillespie Magee Jr. --
Dreams / Cecil Frances Alexander --
My symphony / William Ellery Channing --
Nature boy / Eden Ahbez --
Gift / John Bucchino, Ian Fraser.