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 Voice Of Poetry (An Anthology of Recorded Verse) Volume l


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Vintage
Catalogue Number17151-D (A) / 17151-D (B) / 17152-D (A) / 17152-D (B) / 17153-D (A) / 17153-D (B) / 17154-D (A) / 17154-D (B) / 17155-D (A) / 17155-D (B) / 17156-D (A) / 17156-D (B)
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Columbia
Record Format78 RPM - 10"
Shelf Number159
Number of Tracks12
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 - Sonnet CIV - To me Fair Friend / To Celia / A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal
Composer(s) : Shakespeare ; Ben Jonson ; Wordsworth
2 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Composer(s) : Keats
3 - The Tiger / Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth / She Walks in Beauty
Composer(s) : Blake ; Clough ; Byron
4 - Upon Westminster Bridge / Allan-a-Dale
Composer(s) : Wordsworth ; Scott
5 - Sonnet CXVI - Let me Not to the Marriage of True Minds / Sonnet XXX - When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought / Cymbeline - Fear No More the Heat O' the Sun
Composer(s) : Shakespeare
6 - The Reaper / Sweet and Low / A Child's Grace
Composer(s) : Wordsworth ; Tennyson ; Herrick
7 - Nicholas Nye / The Shyness of Beauty
Composer(s) : De la Mare ; Binyon
8 - Tewkesbury Road / The Donkey / Weathers
Composer(s) : John Masefield ; G.K. Chesterton ; T. Hardy
9 - Cargoes / The Ploughman / Summer Morning
Composer(s) : John Masefield ; Bottomley ; Wallace B. Nichols
10 - The Kingfisher / The Song of Enchantment / You are Old, Father William
Composer(s) : W.H. Davies ; De la Mare ; Carroll
11 - The Rolling English Road / The Shop Girl
Composer(s) : G.K. Chesterton ; Richard Church
12 - The Elfin Artist / The Moon
Composer(s) : Noyes ; W.H. Davies