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In Poems (Version 2)
The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…
Lonely
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 …
Johnson's Hints for the Life of Pope
In Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tou…
Proem
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Notes Episode 8: Crescent Vignettes #8 - Flood
In Notes from the Vault
A blizzard cripples an isolated stretch of US Highway where freezing to death would be a mercy. An antique broker holds the internet in the …
Men’s Manners
In A to Zed Collection Vol. 002
This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.
Charleville
In Silverpoints
Silverpoints is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Oscar Wilde, who agreed to underwrit…
THE EASTER EGG
In The Chronicles of Clovis
The Chronicles of Clovis brings together a delightful collection of short stories by Saki, featuring the mischievous and witty Clovis Sangra…
The Kirk Spook
In The Stoneground Ghost Tales
The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…
Jordan
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
"The Bishop's Move"
In Meet Mr. Mulliner
A collection of short stories, originally published in periodicals, featuring the character Mr. Mulliner. - Summary by James Hutchisson
In a Lecture-Room by Arthur Hugh Clough
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 1)
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
A Thought from Propertius
In The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2)
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady…
The Dog and the Shadow
In Coffee Break Collection 029 - Dogs
This is the 29th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Selections from The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Ideality by Hartley Coleridge
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Prologue
In The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Snow
In Mountain Interval (version 2)
Mountain Interval is a 1916 poetry collection written by American writer Robert Frost. It is Frost's third poetic volume and was published b…
01 - Thornleigh
In In a North Country Village
M. E. Francis was born Mary E. Sweetman in Dublin and moved to Lancashire on her marriage to Francis Nicholas Blundell, of the Blundell fami…