Sleepytime Poetry
Soothing classical poetry with guided meditations to help you get to sleep. Relax to theater professor Jeff Kaplan's calming voice as you drift into dreams.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11: Sleepy Poems about Dancing—William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carrol, Sir Henry Newbolt, & Richard Lovelace
Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features beautiful poems about dancing by William Butler Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carrol, Sir Henry Newbolt, & Richard Lovelace....
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Episode 11
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25:49
Episode 10: A Sleepy Long Poem about Nature—Edna St. Vincent Milay
Follow theater professor Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features a beautiful long poem by Edna St. Vincent Milay, "Renascence" (1912), about a speaker who experiences a spiritual death and rebi...
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Episode 10
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33:39
Episode 9: Sleepy Sonnets about Sleep—William Shakespeare
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. This evening features beautiful sonnets by William Shakespeare about sleep. Works include Sonnet 27 ("Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"); Sonnet 28 "(H...
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Episode 9
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24:29
Episode 8: Sleepy Poems about the Rain— Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aunt Effie
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening features beautiful poems about the soothing quality of rain. Works include "A Drop fell on the Apple Tree," (1890) by Emily Dickinson, ...
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Episode 8
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22:59
Episode 7: Sleepy Poems by Robert Frost
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems feature Four by Frost: four popular poems by Robert Frost, perhaps America's greatest poet. Works include "The Mending Wall...
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Episode 7
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30:00
Episode 6: Sleepy Poems of the Stars—Jane Taylor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Keats, Lucretia Maria Davidson, Sara Teasdale, & Emily Dickinson
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems explore the wonder of the stars. Poems include Jane Taylor's "The Star" (1806), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Light of the Stars...
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Episode 6
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31:01
Episode 5: Sleepy Poems of the Moon—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Stanley Braithwaite, E.E. Cummings, Sara Teasdale, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, & William Blake
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. The evening's beautiful poems explore the moon as a universal symbol of the night. Poems include Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To the Moon" (1817); Robert Louis S...
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Episode 5
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28:09
Episode 4: Sleepy Poems from Ancient English—William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, & anonymous Anglo-Saxon poets
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems harken back to the English language's distant past. From William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (1609...
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Episode 4
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27:45
Episode 3: Sleepy Poems of the Ocean—Edmund Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Rainer Maria Rilke, & Nathaniel Hawthorne
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's beautiful poems all feature the ocean. Selections include Edmund Spencer's Sonnet LXXV, “One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand"; Matthew Arnold...
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Episode 3
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27:29
Episode 2: Sleepy Poems About Sleep—William Shakespeare, John Keats, & Edgar Allen Poe
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into as he guides you into sleep. Tonight's poems all have to do with sleep. Poems include William Shakespeare's Sonnet 27 ("Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"); To Sleep...
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Episode 2
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31:07
Episode 1: Sleepy Poems of the Forest—William Shakespeare, Christina Rosetti, & Amos Russel Wells
Follow Jeff Kaplan's relaxing voice into a beautiful forest in your imagination as he guides you into sleep. Poems include Titania, Queen of the Faeries' speech from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream,;Twilight Ca...
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Episode 1
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31:48
