The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

The Appreciation of Poetry


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue Number36055 / 36056 / 36057 / 36058 / 36059 / 36060
Matrix Number CO 29074
Record Label Columbia
Record Format78 RPM - 10" Album
Shelf Number121
Number of Tracks29
Date RecordedN/A
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Boots
Composer(s) : Rudyard Kipling
2 - Sea Fever
Composer(s) : John Masefield
3 - Boot and Saddle
Composer(s) : Robert Browning
4 - A Red, Red Rose
Composer(s) : Robert Burns
5 - Break, Break, Break
Composer(s) : Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 - Kubla Khan
Composer(s) : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7 - The Lark
Composer(s) : Lizette Woodward Reese
8 - Song Of The Chattahoochee
Composer(s) : Sidney Lanier
9 - From the Santa Fe Trai
Composer(s) : Vachel Lindsay
10 - Lost
Composer(s) : Carl Sandburg
11 - Silver-Walter de la Mare
Composer(s) : Walter de la Mare
12 - The Runaway
Composer(s) : Robert Frost
13 - A Wet Sheet And A Flowing Sea
Composer(s) : Allan Cunningham
14 - The Fog
Composer(s) : Carl Sandburg
15 - The Railway Train
Composer(s) : Emily Dickinson
16 - Deserted
Composer(s) : Madison Cawein
17 - In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations
Composer(s) : Thomas Hardy
18 - Crossing the Bar
Composer(s) : Alfred Lord Tennyson
19 - Ozymandias
Composer(s) : Percy Bysshe Shelley
20 - The Tiger
Composer(s) : William Blake
21 - She Walks in Beauty
Composer(s) : George Gordon Byron
22 - Dover Beach
Composer(s) : Matthew Arnold
23 - Encouragements to a Lover
Composer(s) : Sir John Suckling
24 - On His Blindness
Composer(s) : John Milton
25 - In Flanders Fields
Composer(s) : John McCrae
26 - When I Hear the Learn'd Astronomer
Composer(s) : Walt Whitman
27 - To Althea, From Prison
Composer(s) : Richard Lovelace
28 - November Night
Composer(s) : Adelaide Crapsey
29 - The Man with the Hoe
Composer(s) : Edwin Markham