Henry David Thoreau's "Summer Rain"

The Daily Poem

Goldberry Studios

Education For Kids, Arts, Kids & Family

4.6 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today's poem is Henry David Thoreau's "Summer Rain."

Remember: subscribe, rate, review.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	That was a great dinner.
0:01.0	So great.
0:01.8	Wait, where'd you park the car?
0:02.8	Oh, the one I just sold a Carvana.
0:04.5	What?
0:05.0	When did you do that?
0:06.0	When you were still looking at the menu?
0:07.3	I went on Carvana.com and all I had to do was under the license plate or VIN, answer a few questions, and got a real offer in seconds.
0:13.1	They picked up the car already?
0:14.4	No, I parked on the spot. Oh, no wonder you picked up the check. Yeah, about that.
0:21.4	I thought we were going havesies.
0:22.7	Sell your car to Carvana.
0:24.3	Visit Carvana.com or download the app to get a real offer in second.
0:32.3	Welcome back to the Daily Poem here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern.
0:41.5	Today's poem is by Henry David Thoreau. He lived from 1817 to 1862 and is probably best known for his essay, Civil Disobedience, or his book, Walden, which is of course about his
0:54.2	his simple life living in a cabin in the woods. One of those two things is probably
0:59.5	what you know him best for, but he also wrote many poems. And he has one of the best
1:05.1	photos on Wikipedia anywhere, by the way. He's got a great beard. I would
1:08.7	definitely recommend taking a look at that picture
1:11.5	and then writing a poem about that beard. It's one of the most poem-able, poemable beards I've ever
1:18.0	seen. But the poem that I'm going to read today is called The Summer Rain. This is how it goes.
1:28.3	My books I'd fain cast off.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Goldberry Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Goldberry Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.