Multilingual Short Works Collection 025 - Poetry & Prose
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Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
This is our 25th collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English) as listed below. All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. (Summary by ToddHW) 
Chinese - 蜀道難 [Shǔ dào nán]
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 2:29
 李白 [Li Bai]
 Keywords: scenery, challenge, danger, desolation, dreariness, exaggeration, myth, legend, concern, depravity 
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Chinese (read in historical Chengdu dialect) - 蜀相 [Shu xiang]
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 0:50
 杜甫 [Du Fu]
Keywords: Chengdu, admiration, three kingdoms, regret, praise, lament, expectations
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Esperanto - La ovala portreto
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 10:37
 Edgar Allan Poe, translated by Albert Frank Milward
 Keywords: Esperanto translation of „The Oval Portrait”
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German - Das gemordete Kind, aus Lettische Märchen
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 1:49
 Victor von Andrejanoff
 Keywords: multilingual, german, fairy tale, haunt, ghosts
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Italian - Alla sera
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 1:33
 Ugo Foscolo
 Keywords: multilingual, italian, foscolo, poetry, sonnet, evening, darkness, death, peace, time, restlessness, war, patriotism
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Italian - Ben venga maggio
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 2:24
 Angelo Poliziano
 Keywords: multilingual, italian, florentine, florence, renaissance, ballata, angelo poliziano, de medici, tournament, spring, may, youth, love, pleasure, carpe diem, transience, brevity of life, vanita
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Italian - Inferno, Canto V
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 9:16
 Dante Alighieri
Keywords: Paolo e Francesca, second level of Hell, lust, lovers
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Italian - In morte del fratello Giovanni
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 1:26
 Ugo Foscolo
 Keywords: multilingual, italian, catullus, foscolo, poetry, sonnet, death, grief, burial, funeral rites, exile 
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Latin - Carmen CI
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 1:52
 Gaius Valerius Catullus
 Keywords: multilingual, latin, catullus, carmina, death, grief, funeral rites
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Latin - De Herotionte, Epìgramma V.35
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 1:38
 Marcus Valerius Martialis
 Keywords: multilingual, latin, martialis, martial, epigrammata, epigram, death, child, grief
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Latin and French - Orientis Partibus
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 4:10
 Anonymous
 Keywords: multilingual, latin, french, medieval, feast of the ass
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Luxembourgish - Fréjorsdoft
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 1:01
 Michel Lentz
 Keywords: nature, spring, poetry, fun
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Macedonian - Т'га за југ [Tga za jug]
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 2:00
 Konstantin Miladinov
 Keywords: longing, lake, homesickness, sadness, natural treasures
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Maltese (medieval) - Il Kantilena
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 1:50
 Pietru Caxaru
 Keywords: oldest known Maltese poem, l-eqdem poeżija bil-Malti, xideu il cada, huakit hi mirammiti, Caxaro, the house that crumbled
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Polish - Bakczysaraj
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 1:03
 Adam Mickiewicz
 Keywords: podróź, historia, przyroda, przemijanie, poezja, sonet
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Romanian - Departe sunt de tine...
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 2:04
 Mihai Eminescu
 Keywords: Mihai Eminescu, Poezii, Departe sint de time, Departe sunt de time, Poezia romaneasca
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Spanish - La ardilla, el dogo y el zorro
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 4:17
 Andrés Bello
 Keywords: Poesía, Fábula, Andrés Bello
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Spanish - El león y el pastor
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 2:20
 Esopo
 Keywords: moraleja, fábula, agradecimiento
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Spanish - Remordimiento
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 8:06
 Eduardo Zamacois
 Keywords: suicidio, desamor, rompimiento, muerte
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Spanish - Solo
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 2:36
 José Campo-Arana
 Keywords: soledad, reflexión, tristeza
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 (1 hr 3 min)