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The Mirage
In Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poe…
Preface
In Precepts in Practice; or, Stories Illustrating the Proverbs
Fifteen short stories that are full of morals and wisdom, warmth and comfort, charm and wit—all inspired by the book of Proverbs. Each of th…
Occult
In The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
The Divine Fantasy
In The Black Panther
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and be…
Mystical Poets
In Selected Poems
Amado Nervo was a Mexican poet, novelist and diplomat. These poems were translated by Alice Stone Blackwell, Thomas Walsh and Ernest F. Luca…
Paganism
In The Dirge of the Sea-Children, and Other Poems
The first of three volumes of poetry published by Yale English literature graduate Kenneth Rand before his untimely death in 1918 by the Gre…
The Worship of Nature
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
Blithe Spirit
In Everything for the Boys
Everything for the Boys is a captivating old-time radio anthology and program that speaks to the troops. This series features a variety of s…
Faith, Half Faith and No Faith at All
In Fables
Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…
Summary
In Birds, Vol. II, No 2, August 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Relation between Magic and Religion by Crawford H. Toy
In Coffee Break Collection 039 - Magic
This is the 39th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Spirits of the Street
In The Lilt of Life
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused o…
My Religion
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
Theology
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Quaker Pagan
In The Pale Woman
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
Chapter 15
In God Wears Many Skins: Sami Myth and Culture in Poems
The Sami, who call themselves "the real people," are nomadic indigenous people of Northern Scandinavia and adjacent areas of Russi…
Faith and Despondency
In The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Emily Brontë
The inspirational and visionary poetry of Emily Brontë will live forever in the annals of great works of creative art. Renowned as the …
The Earth-Spirit
In Sagas of Vaster Britain
A collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell addressing themes of National Identity, Imperialism and the Divinity of …
Hymn to the Holy Spirit
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part II
A collection of Irish poetry, edited and largely translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. This is the second and final part of the book. - Sum…
Meditation
In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems wer…