Music. From The lark ascending (0:50)
Part 1. Why I wake early (0:49) ; When I am among the trees (0:58) ; Just around the house, early in the morning (0:55) ; Beans green and yellow (0:35) ; Trying to be thoughtful in the first brights of dawn (0:47) ; How everything adores being alive (0:58) ; The dipper (2:01) ; Many miles (0:45) ; Percy (One) (0:34) ; Percy (Nine) (0:44) ; Doesn't every poet write a poem about unrequited love? (1:16) ; It was early (1:07) ; Singapore (2:26) ; Poppies (1:14) ; The poet goes to Indiana (2:13)
Six short poems. Yellow (0:19) ; Li Po and the moon (0:27) ; Black snake (0:21) ; Water (0:20) ; Snowy egret (0:24) ; When (0:28)
Music. From The lark ascending (0:48)
Part 2. Messenger (1:14) ; Violets (0:40) ; At the pond (1:11) ; Yes! No! (1:19) ; The old poets of China (0:31) ; The loon on Oak-Head Pond (0:40) ; Morning at Blackwater (0:51) ; The poet comments on yet another approaching spring (1:06) ; Picking blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957 (1:27) ; Night and the river (1:17) ; Red (1:07) ; Gethsemane (1:04) ; The lilies break open over the dark water (1:05) ; About angels and about trees (1:06) ; Long afternoon at the edge of Little Sister Pond (1:32) ; The trees (0:57) ; We should be well prepared (0:49) ; In the evening, in the pinewoods (0:56) ; While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer, the meadowlark begins to sing (1:04) ; White heron rises over Blackwater (0:54).