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• Apples of Hesperides [1:04]

• Azure and Gold [1:16]

• Fatigue [1:02]

• Four of the "Pictures of the Floating World" [1:06]

• Frankincense and Myrrh [0:55]

• In a Garden [1:08]

• In Excelsis [2:07]

• A Japanese Wood-Carving [2:11]

• Madonna of the Evening Flowers [1:14]

• Music [1:05]

• Patterns [4:16]

• Petals [0:46]

• Taxi [0:32]

• Suggested by the Cover of a Volume of Keats's Poems [1:35]

• Venus Transiens [0:46] First reading.

• Venus Transiens [0:44] Second reading.   Lowell was born in 1874, the year of the Transit of Venus (another transit occurred on December 6, 1882 when Amy was eight years old).  The next transit occurred today, June  8, 2004.  In honor of the poet I have re-recorded the poem today.  -- W.R.E.